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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: 452. To ask the Minister for Health when an audiologist will be appointed to County Carlow to replace the retiring physician from Carlow District Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16617/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: 465. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have a procedure carried out. [16695/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: I remind members, delegates and those in the Visitors Gallery to make sure their mobile phones are turned off completely as they interfere with the broadcasting and recording systems, even when left in silent mode. Some weeks ago the joint committee decided to bring together all of the stakeholders involved in the beef industry to see where its future lay in view of the fact that it had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: I ask Mr. Woods to be as quick as he can be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: I am sure members will have plenty of questions in due course. I invite Mr. McCormack to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: I thank all the organisations for their very comprehensive submissions and presentations today. Before I go to members, there is no doubt that this is an important issue at present. Should we all have been looking in our crystal ball a couple of years ago when the milk quota rules were abolished? Was it obvious that there would be a significant increase in production numbers and cattle...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: I will open the meeting up to members, beginning with Deputies McConalogue and Penrose.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: It is obvious that there is no single silver bullet. The committee wishes to have a very honest and deep rooted discussion about the beef sector from start to finish. My late father used to say that a suckler cow always died in debt. That was 20 years ago and it is probably the same today. Things have not changed from that point of view. We must be able to do an analysis to find out why...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: The next speaker is Senator Mulherin who will be followed by Deputies Martin Kenny and Corcoran Kennedy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: Bord Bia representatives will be here next week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: The figure of 100,000 is incorrect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: With respect, Deputy Eamon Ryan has the floor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: No. Deputy Eamon Ryan should continue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: We are not going to rehash the climate change debate here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: In fairness, it has to be said we have very high animal welfare standards in this country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: Leave out the advertising.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: We have covered a good deal of ground but time is moving on. We have another delegation to interview before the night is over. For the record, according to the 2016 census figures, there are 139,500 farmers in the country. We will try to keep the next contributions as brief as possible. There are many questions to be answered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: I want to allow all the groups to speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: On that, is there an issue whereby the exporters should be working together? This is an issue we came across at a previous meeting. The exporters were encouraged to work together to try to alleviate some of those issues. Correct me if I am wrong but I understand there has been an effort over a long period to ensure they would come together and work under an umbrella organisation. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Pat Deering: I believe the same issue arose last year.