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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector: Irish Dairy Board (15 Jan 2015)

Andrew Doyle: One would have to question the value of having an intervention price set at world market prices. It does not do anything to act as a cushion. It is irrelevant if the product is at world market price except that it is the buying price.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector: Irish Dairy Board (15 Jan 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Does that include the carbon footprint?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector: Irish Dairy Board (15 Jan 2015)

Andrew Doyle: That is the simple one for people to understand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector: Irish Dairy Board (15 Jan 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Senator Mary Ann O'Brien asked about the price New Zealanders can take.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector: Irish Dairy Board (15 Jan 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Some of it has been answered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector: Irish Dairy Board (15 Jan 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector: Irish Dairy Board (15 Jan 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I thank Mr. Forde, Mr. Condon and Ms Randles for their attendance. It is reassuring to know that the Irish Dairy Board is working at trying to develop markets and is very cognisant of the extra production that is coming on stream and will continue, including worldwide. It will be a market where there will be volatility in energy and there will be other factors such as markets closing down....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cycle Network (20 Jan 2015)

Andrew Doyle: 614. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there will be a new round of funding for cycleways under the national cycle network funding scheme; if so, when the funding will come on stream in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2731/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (21 Jan 2015)

Andrew Doyle: 241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the development of a long-term strategic plan for the N11 in order to cater for merging with the M50 and secondary exits, as agreed by the National Road Authority; if the review group for southbound and northbound proposals has been established in order to assess suitability for greater traffic volumes,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Health and Safety (27 Jan 2015)

Andrew Doyle: 467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the external lighting in the internal road network within the school campus at Blacklion, Greystones, County Wicklow will be made operational; her views that the absence of functioning lighting in a campus containing two national schools and a secondary school represents a significant danger and hazard to children, staff and parents; if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections: Health and Safety Authority (29 Jan 2015)

Andrew Doyle: We are in public session. I remind members and witnesses to switch off their mobile phones. I welcome the representatives from the Health and Safety Authority, Mr. Martin O'Halloran, chief executive, Mr. Brian Higgisson, assistant chief executive with responsibility for operational compliance and prevention, and Mr. Pat Griffin, senior inspector. I thank them for attending to discuss with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections: Health and Safety Authority (29 Jan 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I thank Mr. O'Halloran.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections: Health and Safety Authority (29 Jan 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I will call Deputy Penrose and we will have another group of five later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections: Health and Safety Authority (29 Jan 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I ask Mr. O'Halloran to respond to those points. We would normally be focused on questions, but the committee is anxious to work with the witnesses. There is a depth of knowledge and experience here with suggestions that might help. That is why I am allowing members to expand somewhat beyond questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections: Health and Safety Authority (29 Jan 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I call Senator Michael Comiskey.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections: Health and Safety Authority (29 Jan 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I wish to make an interesting observation on an area that has been covered by previous speakers. I am not sure if the representatives would have a view on it and I appreciate their authority is not the competent authority in this area. There are people who have had a full, clean licence for 15 years who at the time of the change in the rules applying to the licence inadvertently did not get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections: Health and Safety Authority (29 Jan 2015)

Andrew Doyle: We will leave it at that. The authority, in its presentation, stated: "Bringing about such a change cannot be achieved by a single entity or a single approach." This is probably the nub of the matter. The Health and Safety Authority is a very important cog in the machinery when trying to ensure farm accidents are eliminated, which they probably never will be, or reduced to a number...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I thank the Chairman for allowing me to contribute, particularly as I am not a member of the committee. I have been watching proceedings on the monitor. This is a very serious matter and no one needs to be reminded of that fact. I get the feeling that this is something of a testing-the-water exercise on the part of certain interests and we are playing right into their hands. The briefing...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hedge Cutting Season (3 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: 663. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on extending the hedge cutting season from 1 March 2015 to 15 March 2015 as much of the ground was impassable during the recent wet weather; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4809/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Industry: Bord Bia, ICOS and Positive Farmers (3 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I remind members, witnesses and those in the gallery to switch off their mobile phones. I welcome the representatives from Bord Bia - Mr. Aidan Cotter, Mr. Padraig Brennan and Mr. David Owens - and thank them for attending to discuss with the committee the potential difficulties facing the dairy industry with regard to price volatility. On the matter of privilege, I note that witnesses...