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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Bobby Aylward: I saw an estimate of €5 million and an outturn of €7 million when I was going through it and I thought I would ask about it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Bobby Aylward: That is mostly TB compensation.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Bobby Aylward: The cost of bringing a fallen animal to the knackers has gone sky high. Does that go directly to the knackers or does the Department also pay compensation? At one time it was cheap to bring a dead animal to the knackers yard but it is now very expensive, particularly over the past two years. Are they covered by the Department as well as the farmer who lost the animal? What is the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Bobby Aylward: Who pays for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Bobby Aylward: Is the cost capped at €54? Unfortunately, I lost an animal lately and I was charged €80.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Bobby Aylward: That is good information. I refer to the derogation and the review that has been going on since April or May. There is a good deal of consultation taking place. There is serious concern in terms of the derogation and its being rolled out in the future. I met representatives from the Irish Farmers Association, IFA, in Kilkenny earlier in the week in order to discuss that matter....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Bobby Aylward: Some farmers obtained borrowings on their output four years in advance and if this is changed, it would affect those repayments. The IFA maintains that the water quality in rivers here is cleaner than those in the EU. Ireland is in the top four or five in that regard. I do not know whether that is factual.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Bobby Aylward: That brings me to the next question about our carbon footprint. Agriculture has been blamed for 32.3% of emissions. The Department states that we should increase production with a view to ensuring food safety and producing food of a good quality but how can we marry the two of those if we are told we must reduce emissions? At the same time, we want solidarity in terms of food availability...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Bobby Aylward: I did not ask-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Bobby Aylward: Is it true that we are spending €80 million this year alone buying-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Bobby Aylward: Finally, €24 million was unspent. Unspent money is not good, especially when schemes such as GLAS are underfunded. In the agri-environmental schemes sub-heading, the Estimate provision for GLAS was €245 million and only €225 million was spent. My understanding was that more people wanted to get into GLAS so why was there an underspend on the scheme? It states that the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Bobby Aylward: Were those 25% picked up the year after?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Bobby Aylward: They were left out only for that year.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Bobby Aylward: Is the funding running out in targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, TAMS, for the farmers building milk parlours etc.? Some farmers spoke to me recently to say it was not guaranteed that grants would be paid. Has the money in TAMS been overspent or is it running out? Have there been too many applicants and not enough funding?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Bobby Aylward: Would there be percentage cuts?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Bobby Aylward: What is the percentage figure for farmers who have applied and who may not be successful? Does the witness have that information?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Bobby Aylward: So roughly one fifth could be left out.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Bobby Aylward: Did the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine see the report?
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2019)
Bobby Aylward: The programme for Government states we should use the strengthening economy to become a leader in the provision of world class education and skills. Last week the Union of Students in Ireland made a pre-budget submission. Members of my local branch, Carlow IT Students Union, recently contacted my office to highlight some of the major issues facing students. They spoke about the importance...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019) Bobby Aylward: I am sorry for being late. I will probably repeat some of the questions that have been asked.