Results 4,101-4,120 of 5,615 for speaker:Andrew Doyle

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: National Milk Agency (25 Nov 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Deputy Deering has another question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: National Milk Agency (25 Nov 2014)

Andrew Doyle: That is a key point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: National Milk Agency (25 Nov 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I thank Mr. Murphy and Dr. Ó Céidigh for attending and answering the questions. I apologise on behalf of the Senators who had to leave the meeting for a vote in the Seanad and thank you on their behalf as well. It is important to bear in mind that the National Milk Agency is charged with ensuring there is an adequate supply of liquid milk to consumers. The Irish consumer has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2014: Motion (25 Nov 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I welcome the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Simon Coveney, and Mr. Dermot Ryan and Ms Emer McGeough, officials from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Senators have left for a Seanad vote but some indicated that they will be back. Members will be aware that on 18 November, Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann referred the motion on this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2014: Motion (25 Nov 2014)

Andrew Doyle: It will be helpful if the betting tax comes on stream. Year after year the committee has expressed a desire that the fund be self-financing so that a Supplementary Estimate would not need to be considered. I think our role at present is to keep a watching brief on the matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2014: Motion (25 Nov 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Thank you. I believe the message is coming loud and clear from the committee that we are not afraid to put on record the point that we would like to see the revenue stream from the Betting (Amendment) Bill increased to make the revenues garnered from betting sufficient to fund the horse and greyhound fund itself. There is no reason we should not make that point every year until it does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2014: Motion (25 Nov 2014)

Andrew Doyle: On the point of the pre-legislative scrutiny, one of our recommendations was that there would be a second seat for people from the industries' committee on the board of Horse Racing Ireland, which would include the employees of the stable industry, which is the biggest cohort of people working in the industry by far. Deputy Ferris made a reference to people who work in big and small yards...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (25 Nov 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Under Standing Order 87 the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine has completed its consideration of the following motion: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2014, copies of which were laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 14...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forthcoming Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Dec 2014)

Andrew Doyle: The purpose of today's meeting is to discuss the forthcoming EU Council meeting on agriculture and fisheries, AGRI FISH, and the sea fisheries sustainability impact assessment. I welcome the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Simon Coveney, and his officials. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forthcoming Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Dec 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forthcoming Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Dec 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I am conscious that we will be discussing the fishing sector after this item.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forthcoming Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Dec 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Let me return to the quota regime. Given that there is a depressed market, will producers be allowed to switch the co-operative or dairy they supply without having to give statutory notice when quotas end on 1 January? It seems people are able to play with that. People would have a stronger negotiating position if they had fewer than three months of notice to give. For quota purposes, it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forthcoming Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Dec 2014)

Andrew Doyle: That is fine. Before we finish, there was a question about error rates.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Dec 2014)

Andrew Doyle: We will now move on to the fisheries section of our discussion. I thank the officials who are departing and welcome the new arrivals. I invite the Minister to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Dec 2014)

Andrew Doyle: This is almost an annual event. This Council meeting becomes the most important one of the year from a fisheries perspective, other than the Common Fisheries Policy, CFP, itself. I am not sure whether Deputy Ferris's question was answered in that contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Dec 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Is that the final agreement? This is in anticipation of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Dec 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I call Deputy Harrington, in substitution for Deputy Deering.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Dec 2014)

Andrew Doyle: There is a great deal of concern, as the Minister will appreciate. With regard to the discards and the new equipment, will he clarify whether the EMFF will assist fleets to upgrade their gear?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Dec 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I will come back to Deputy Ferris. I want to raise one point Deputy Pringle made, that the €32 million under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund that is going to be used for enhancing data gathering would be accepted by the Commission. It seems the Commission is the least likely to follow scientific data. To whom do they listen? It is very important that some sort of agreement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Dec 2014)

Andrew Doyle: After the outcome of the talks.