Results 4,401-4,420 of 4,571 for speaker:Trevor Sargent
- Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: We are spending.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: There will be.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: Thanks for the reminder. The Deputy is as magnanimous in victory as ever.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: The tide was out.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: Threats do not become the Deputy.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: Deputy Reilly is not concerned with finance anyway.
- Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (9 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: European medicines legislation was changed in October 2005 to introduce explicit requirements for Braille to appear on the packaging of medicines. This legislation also requires pharmaceutical companies to ensure that the patient information leaflets for their medicines are made available, on request from patients' organisations, in formats appropriate for the blind and partially sighted....
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (9 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: The Food Supplements Directive, 2002/46/EC, has been transposed into Irish law by Statutory Instrument No. 506 of 2007. The principle behind the legislation is to ensure that consumers in Ireland are protected by the harmonised EU rules on the sale of food supplements, in particular the labelling of food supplements and chemical form of vitamins and minerals they contain. The Directive...
- Written Answers — Food Safety Authority: Food Safety Authority (11 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: Local Authority Veterinary Inspectors are responsible for the inspection of abattoirs. These Veterinary Inspectors are employed by County Councils and their food safety activities are funded by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). The FSAI determines the amount to be paid for this service each year and each Council submits claims to the FSAI for this payment at the end of each...
- Ministerial Travel. (17 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: He is doing his job.
- Ministerial Travel. (17 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: He cycled in today as well.
- Ministerial Travel. (17 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: He is trotting after Deputy à Caoláin. 11 o'clock
- Order of Business (17 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: I am here.
- Written Answers — Food Labelling: Food Labelling (18 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: At present EU food labelling legislation is harmonised by Council Directive 2000/13/EC, transposed in 2002, with several amendments since. In January 2008, the European Commission presented its proposal for a new regulation updating and harmonising this legislation. This proposal, which is still under discussion, will both consolidate existing legislation in the area of food labelling and...
- Food Industry. (30 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: There is no resistance in the Government to country of origin labelling. We would introduce it overnight if we did not have the resistance from other member states. We are working on that and I will not give up on it. Deputy Doyle is right. A very serious situation confronts the food and drink sector and I talked about the quicker element of the response, which had to be brought about by...
- Food Industry. (30 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: The report by the Competition Authority, as its name suggests, puts much emphasis on competition but it points out that exporters will frequently price to the market. The retail sector is being shown to have a selective approach to what it means by competition in any one market and will play to its strengths and have higher margins in some areas than others because it considers it can get...
- Food Industry. (30 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: That is why we need a retail ombudsman. I heard the Tesco representative on "Morning Ireland" this morning. He did not give a "Yes" or "No" answer when asked about a retail ombudsman. Consumers, the Government and the industry need to come together and recognise that unless we have transparency and an end to this dysfunctional operation of the retail sector, the suppliers will not be...
- Food Industry. (30 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: He did not answer the question, but he will have to do so.
- Common Agricultural Policy. (30 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: Concrete proposals have yet to emerge on the shape of EU agriculture policy beyond 2013. Among the ideas emerging are demands from some member states for a lower budget share for agriculture and for eventual dismantling of CAP; demands from new member states for re-balancing of member states' shares of agricultural funding; increased calls for changes to the single payment system to move...
- Common Agricultural Policy. (30 Jun 2009)
Trevor Sargent: I could not disagree with what the Deputy is saying. The one thing we could say is that the family farm structure, which he mentioned, coming from the origins of the European Union and the Treaty of Rome, is more essential than ever, but probably for different reasons. It originally came about with the emphasis on affordable food and supply of food without the current issue facing us, which...