Results 4,241-4,260 of 5,388 for speaker:John Deasy
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: I understand. One could make the argument that, for fairness reasons, it might have been the best option. I do not expect Mr. O'Driscoll to comment on that but it might have been the fairer outcome. I will tell Mr. O'Driscoll where I am going with this. I understand he was not dealing with this in 2002 and some of the officials probably were not around or dealt with any of this. I...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: I appreciate that. I might come in with different issues afterwards. I thank Mr. O'Driscoll for his candour.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: I have a couple of questions. The first relates to something that the committee has been addressing in the report that we are finalising, namely, the State fishery ports. We have been back and forth with the Department on this issue. We understand that it and the problems in the system were inherited by the Department. I do not know who in the Department volunteered for this or who...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: I thank Mr. O'Driscoll for that. When we launch this next week we will reiterate that and mention that there is agreement to engage with it. My experience in my constituency is that many people have approached me about processing shellfish and getting involved in seafood for export in the past six months in particular. Regarding the €400 million odd that the harbours are worth and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Mr. O'Driscoll does not know about that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Fair enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Dr. Beamish is saying that in the next capital funding round the Department is considering a breakwater structure potentially for Dunmore East.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: The superlevy payment scheme was announced this morning; I think it was Deputy Fleming who mentioned it. Mr. O'Driscoll is probably aware that myself and Deputy Michael Creed suggested the formation of a dairy forum given the post-quota era we are now in, mainly to governmentally manage the volatility that we all know will affect the dairy industry in the years ahead. My understanding is...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Yes. We have been speaking to a number of people since that suggestion was accepted. The area on which we want the forum to focus and concentrate is the trade element. We think it deserves it, considering that the dairy industry has been locked in a box to a certain extent for the past 30 years and we think that the Government should react accordingly. Every agency and Department within...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: My final question relates to the online publication of the names of recipients of single farm payments, which, effectively, allows everyone to see them. The farming organisations and individual farmers have raised the risks they fear would accrue as a result of the publication of these figures. The Department must take this seriously considering the number of farms that have been subject to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Fair enough, there are many O'Driscolls in west Cork. There are many Deasys in west Cork as well but I still would not like to have my name put down.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: My point is that I believe the Department needs to constantly monitor this with regard to what the Garda is investigating when it comes to crimes committed on farms, when it comes to gangs.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: It is necessary for this to be constantly monitored and watched. If there is a problem and if the Department connects the two, something would have to be done about it.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: That is Deputy Kelleher's job.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: At last week's meeting, we dealt with the special investigations unit and spent quite some time dealing with the case of Mr. Tom Galvin and the slaughtering of pigs on his farm in 2002. At the meeting, the Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine gave an undertaking that an internal report that was conducted in 2005 by the Department would be sent for review to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: We had also asked that they release the internal report that was cited by the Secretary General when it came to Mr. Galvin. That was agreed, pending the receipt of legal advice. I ask the Chairman to follow up that and ask if it can be made available to the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) John Deasy: I have it here. It is on the website.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Mr. McCarthy and his officials are welcome. I seem to remember that the first time he appeared before us the household charge, which was the local property tax subsequently, and what percentage of that would be channelled back into local government arose as an issue. There was a bit of debate nationally. The figure that was bandied about at the time was approximately 85% or 90%. According...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Everything goes back.