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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Has HSI quantified the shortage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Moving on to the innovation hub, HSI has a collaboration with Enterprise Ireland and AgTechUCD. I ask the witnesses to tell us a little about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: It is positive that HSI has identified the idea of collaboration. It makes sense in terms of the size, the exposure and the synergies. We would be interested in hearing about that as it progresses. I know this is more of a long-term plan. It is a welcome and a positive one, and I am glad to hear about it. I wish to touch on building on organisational capabilities. I know this is Horse...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: That, again, is another positive. Mr. Duggan has just confirmed to the committee that Horse Sport Ireland has a designated, permanent, full-time HR manager. That is positive, and I am glad to hear it. Horse Sport Ireland is part of the equine stakeholder group and meets with that group. What is the benefit of that? Clearly, all the different stakeholders are participating. I have seen...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Mr. Duggan is telling us it is effective.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Does it meet regularly enough?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Is the movement of horses still a challenge? In the context of Brexit and the fallout from that, how is all of that panning out? There were major challenges there. Would Mr. Duggan like to comment on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I am not going to ask Mr. Duggan now, because I am conscious of time, but I think it would be very interesting, and the committee would benefit from it, if we had a little memo or note from him about those challenges. He has first-hand knowledge and is at the coalface of all of this. While one reads in The Irish Fieldand various publications about those challenges, it would be nice if it...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I would like to continue on the commentary of the previous Senator. Mr. Cussen is a regular attender of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage, on which all parties in this House are represented. I do not suggest he comes into the Seanad. We have a very strong, active, robust and proactive committee that has members. He is subject to regular questioning,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: That makes sense. How is HSI's engagement with Nuffield and the Teagasc Walsh scholarship system going?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I support the Order of Business. I particularly welcome that we are taking the Government motion relating to the proposal that the report of the Dublin Citizens' Assembly be referred to the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage, of which I am a member, but we need to be clear about something. I do not know the motive behind the Government motion other than the words that...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the CEG for a very important and timely motion. I do not want to talk too much about the motion, which the members of the CEG have done justice and spoken well about. I want to focus some of my time on the Government's amendment. I am disappointed. The amendment is not necessary. I thought the Seanad would speak with one voice, collectively, on this issue, given our commitments...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Mr. Rushe and the team from the IFA. I know they have a lot of experience in horticulture, agriculture and retail. They come with great knowledge and experience, which is important. The shocking thing is that horticulture is in crisis. Let us be honest about it. To hear that we now have fewer than 100 growers of field vegetables is alarming in a country with a climate, soil and a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: So do I.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: In simple terms, Mr. McCormack thinks the strategy is a bit of a disaster. He thinks it is a vision rather than a plan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Is it even that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Am I to take it from that response that Mr. McCormack is not impressed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: That is grand. Let us move on to below-cost selling. Mr. Rushe said in his opening statement, "The IFA is calling for a ban on the below-cost selling and procurement of food and that the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022 be amended in the Seanad to address this." I am a Member of Seanad Éireann and am happy to run with that. I will support the IFA. Has Mr. Rushe a wording...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: We understand that. We are all in the same boat and we know that there is this need. We are advocates here, and we are partners with the witnesses. We are not at odds. Again, it would be helpful for the committee if the IFA could set out what it is proposing. We have our own context, politically, in this place. The IFA needs to crystallise the ask. I always say that we need clarity,...