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- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael D'Arcy: The Minister said in his speech there would be an increase of €1.6 million for Bord Bia. The actual document states that it is €2 million. We are in the territory of a 6% increase, which is not sufficient for Bord Bia's needs. Without the potential of food tariffs being applied in 2019, a standard increase might be fair enough. However, with the value of our exports to the...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael D'Arcy: Five or six months ago the expectation was that the worst-case scenario would be World Trade Organization tariffs, if the EU and UK did not come to a position 24 months after Brexit is triggered at the end of the month. Prior to the November speech by the British Prime Minister, Mrs. May, nobody expected the UK to leave the customs Union and the Single Market. That was certainly unexpected....
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael D'Arcy: Has the possibility of a trade war been analysed?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael D'Arcy: No, I am talking about a trade war. I am not talking about WTO tariffs.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael D'Arcy: I suggest the potential exists for a trade war to erupt between the EU and Britain. I am not talking about WTO tariffs.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael D'Arcy: Correct, but there is a scenario in which there might be a trade war beyond tariffs.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael D'Arcy: That is not what I am asking about.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael D'Arcy: The Minister has said that data on a potential trade war is available. Can he make the worst-case scenario data from the Department, Bord Bia and other relevant parties available? In the event of a trade war, our products would be prevented from going in at all. That is the worst-case scenario. I have not seen any research on that. To my knowledge, nobody has done such research. If it...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael D'Arcy: The 2016 Estimate versus the outturn shows a difference of almost €150 million. I ask the Minister to explain that.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael D'Arcy: Was that 5% on the entire programme?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael D'Arcy: In one year?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael D'Arcy: Was the Department not anticipating that the refund would be coming at some stage?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael D'Arcy: Yes, but would the Department not have been anticipating that the refund would be coming at some stage? When it did not come in 2014 or 2015, did the Department not expect that it would come in 2016?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael D'Arcy: In terms of that 5% of the overall programme, had we paid that out previously?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael D'Arcy: Effectively, it is just an accounting exercise. Where did that money come from while we were waiting for it to come from the EU budget?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael D'Arcy: It is such a colossal amount that it makes the 2016 figure look grossly incorrect.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael D'Arcy: Okay.
- Topical Issue Debate: Garda Resources (23 Mar 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to raise this issue again. I raised it in January and the reason I am being given the opportunity to raise it again is that there was confusion within the Department. The reply to the issue in January seemed to be misleading, which is the gentlest term I can use. Following that debate, I went around the houses to try to find out the current...
- Topical Issue Debate: Garda Resources (23 Mar 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: Is the programme for Government being rejected? Is that what the Minister of State telling me? This is the second occasion on which the Minister of State has answered this question on behalf of the Tánaiste. It is not the Minister of State's area of responsibility. He does not have much interaction with the policing side of his Department. I cannot keep asking the same question,...
- National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: I speak as a parent who has visited Crumlin hospital with children and family members and Temple Street hospital with family members. We have got to get this hospital built. There were several sites in Dublin city. The Mater site was ruled out by An Bord Pleanála. Subsequent to that, when St. Vincent's University Hospital did not apply or request to be considered as a site, there...