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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Priorities (12 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her main policy and legislative priorities for 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55215/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Priorities (12 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 576. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her main policy and legislative priorities for 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55212/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Priorities (12 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 631. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his main policy and legislative priorities for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55201/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Priorities (12 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 707. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his main policy and legislative priorities for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55202/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Priorities (12 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 821. To ask the Minister for Health his main policy and legislative priorities for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55210/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Priorities (12 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 878. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his main policy and legislative priorities for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55209/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Priorities (12 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 888. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her main policy and legislative priorities for 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55214/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Carcase Disposal (14 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Yesterday's development whereby people can now bury the carcass of an animal on their farm is welcome. I spoke to a farmer yesterday with a mini digger. It is an easy job for him to do but many more do not have such a digger so it requires them to contact a local contractor to come over and the contractor may not get there immediately. Could the Minister provide small grant assistance to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Sector (14 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I must disclose that I keep a herd of Shorthorn Hereford cattle, so I have skin in the game here. One farmer at home put it well yesterday when he asked if you can imagine going to a 4-star hotelier and saying that you have looked at the hotel's costs and inputs and are now downgrading it to a 2-star hotel because that is what the market says it should be. That is what it feels like for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the people from ICBF. We have to declare if we have an interest here. I am a suckler farmer. I foddered 26 Shorthorn and Herefords before I came here this morning. Many of us have skin in the game and it is important to say that. This has been devastating to farmers but I want to go back to the politics of it. We are politicians first and foremost. If I have counted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Did the board vote on this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Was there consensus?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I am an IFA member. Every email I have received over the last few days has been from IFA, ICMSA and breeding society members. They are wondering what the hell happened in that board room that it agreed a scheme that has decimated the breeding index.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Can I ask one very important question as to how this decision came about? There are four IFA members, two members from the ICMSA, the breeders, and a lady from the Department who is secretary to the committee. We do not need to know about the other meetings but before the IFA members went into that meeting, which has been so important and had such an impact on farmers, did they get a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I will move on. I have a question for Dr. Crosson. Who requested Teagasc to develop a new algorithm for calculating the indexes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: We have all heard of this algorithm. I do not know if anyone in the room has seen it. Is it available or can it be released?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: With any algorithm, things fluctuate and change. Dr. Crosson mentioned that pricing changed from 2020 to 2022 and that was fed into the algorithm. I note also that there is a carbon index now, with which I do not fully agree, and a TB resistance index, which is the only positive I can see in all of this. Surely when all of that is fed in, it distorts the index and, at the end of the day,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I agree with Senator Dolan on the communication. It has been chronic. I will read a couple of lines from the Salers Society's its take on all of this. It wrote to the ICBF and stated: Many breeders are reporting that top-performing cows in their herds have not just dropped in the replacement index but have plummeted. These are cows with excellent fertility / calving interval, calving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I ask the ICBF to suspend its decision of 28 November until the stakeholder forum has taken place. The Salers Society is one of the major stakeholders and it did not see this coming. This is not a farmer over the road who has penned a letter here. It is one of the stakeholders with which the ICBF is supposed to have negotiated and spoken over many months. The Salers Society is questioning...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Why have a stakeholder forum if the ICBF is not willing to take it into account? This decision of 28 November should be suspended until this stakeholder forum has taken place. Is that not the prudent way to go?