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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: First, I will talk about corporates, as regards the practices that have required in the country up to this stage. There have targeted small animal practices in large urban centres, as well as specialist practices that would be lucrative, whether it is in the equine sector, or whatever they have targeted. They have been targeting the intensive farming areas where there would be a large...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I want to consider career progression and attracting vets into large animal practice. If the vet is coming out of college and making a career choice, he or she may look at a large animal practice. If such practices are run by large corporates, that vet will know he or she will be an employee there all of his or her life and will never have an opportunity to become a partner or an owner of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: The 2005 Act is the hub of why we have brought forward this amending legislation. For the ten years after 2005, the veterinary council interpreted the legislation in a certain way. In 2015 or 2016, it changed its interpretation to allow corporates to buy veterinary practices. Why that happened was the focus of committee meetings during the previous Dáil. The council had a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: It is up to the committee to decide what other witnesses it wishes to call. This is my Private Members' Bill that is receiving scrutiny here. If members feel we should invite other stakeholders to appear before us, that would be a decision for the committee. The Minister was a member of this committee when this issue raised its head in the previous Dáil. He saw the issue at first...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I will refer the questions on the timeframe and how it works to the secretariat, if that is all right with the Vice Chairman. I am not an expert but I have just given my understanding. Regarding the Veterinary Council of Ireland, I have no objection to its representatives coming in but they were adamant two or three years ago that their interpretation of the legislation was correct and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: The veterinary council was in here twice before and that spawned this amendment. I will go with the decision of the committee but the transcript of those meetings is there. It is clear they had their interpretation of the legislation as it stands. That interpretation changed from what they did heretofore. They have been here and, because of what was said at that meeting, this amendment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I would be happy with that. That would be very sensible.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: With regard to work permits, there is a severe shortage of labour in virtually all sectors across the country. The same is happening in Northern Ireland. It came to a head in recent weeks when a meat processing plant in Northern Ireland, which takes a lot of pigs from the South, was forced to close because of a shortage of labour. This had a huge impact on pig prices in the South. There...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: It needs to be recognised that Housing for All is one of the most comprehensive and ambitious homebuilding plans in the history of the State. I am delighted to be a Government Deputy pushing this huge investment. It is one of the key reasons Fianna Fáil entered Government. I want to talk about Irish Water and the infrastructure it needs to invest in. We have to have proper waste...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (28 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if two post-primary students (details supplied) who did not receive school bus tickets will be accommodated given they should meet the criteria for temporary alleviation measures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46558/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (28 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 565. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a maintenance enforcement application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46049/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I wish to raise an issue I have raised in the House on numerous occasions, which is the roll-out of rural broadband. One thing Covid did was show how important that infrastructure is for rural areas. For businesses to prosper and for people to be able to work from home, that roll-out is essential. I had a businessman on to me last week and it typifies what is happening on the ground. John...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: The climate Bill is hugely important legislation, but for it to be successful we need public buy-in. Like a previous speaker, I am from a rural constituency. At the moment, my constituents are resentful of the blame they are getting regarding climate change and anxious about what will be imposed on them and the economic damage it can do. If anything has shaken public confidence in our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I presume the Minister and the Department will have the opportunity to put down amendments to this Bill if they want any change of emphasis but we have put a lot of preparatory work into it. Its purpose is to ensure that veterinary practices stay in the ownership of vets. It is fairly straightforward and very unambiguous. I have already discussed this with the Minister. While the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (30 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 398. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 566 of 6 July 2021, if his Department will continue to pay the annual forest premium to forest owners affected by frost damage regardless of having passed the second instalment stage by year six or not; if his Department release the second instalment grants in circumstances in which frost...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 399. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 567 of 6 July 2021, the reason the areas of natural constraint payment cannot be paid to farmers that plant land in designated areas of natural constraint; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47441/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (5 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 66 of 25 May 2021, the reason the works on the wall on the bridge in Ballylooby, Cahir, County Tipperary were not carried out in September 2021 as committed to by the OPW. [48108/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (5 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to issues relating to the bus route of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47773/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (5 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 640. To ask the Minister for Health the financial assessment breakdown in the case of a person (details supplied) availing of the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47842/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: On carbon budgets, we have introduced legislation in regard to peat harvesting that has virtually crippled our horticulture industry. Bureaucracy in respect of forestry licences is seriously affecting the level of afforestation. The livestock sector feels under siege, and there are carbon budgets, eco schemes, nitrates reviews and Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, reform. We are going to...