Results 4,401-4,420 of 5,615 for speaker:Andrew Doyle
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: I welcome from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll, Secretary General, Ms Brid Cannon, principal officer, Mr. Paul Savage, principal officer, Ms Karen Hanlon, assistant principal officer, Mr. Thomas Harty, assistant agricultural inspector, and Mr. Lorcan O'Shea, higher executive officer. I thank the witnesses for appearing before the joint committee to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: The report includes several measures to do with the fishing sector and I ask Mr. O'Driscoll to give us a brief outline of this in his general response. Last Friday week the committee dealt with the land use report. It has been suggested that the food security and climate change objectives are potentially at loggerheads. That was the precise motivation behind our report. We hope the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: May we have copies of those proposals?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: Deputy Deering has an interjection.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: Bearing in mind two weeks ago we addressed land eligibility and everything else seems to be applied retrospectively, can the new land eligibility be applied retrospectively?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: There are two questions. The first deals with the issue of 14 days and the second is the nature and extent of the penalty that will be imposed in pounds, shillings and pence, to use the old-fashioned terms. My question was on the retrospective approach, given the new land eligibility rules.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: There was a question from Deputy McNamara.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: Is it the case that the Burren, the freshwater pearl mussel and the hen harrier are being prioritised for the locally led environment schemes, the €72 million pot and, one hopes, others?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: It would not cover all SACs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: We asked a question on which Dr. Smyth sought a response in regard to clarifying the issue of NHAs, which will again be raised directly with the European Commission. I think Mr. O'Shea and Mr. Harty were present for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: Look at what?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: As I said earlier, that is not true, because there is an obligation under the locally led environment schemes, the freshwater pearl mussel scheme and the Burren scheme. Those are the three priority areas that have to be addressed under the locally led environment initiative. That funding is additional to GLAS, the areas of natural constraint payment and other payments. With regard to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: We might do it as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: It is not for me to answer the Deputy's query, but I assume he is aware of the carbon navigator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: The Deputy has asked two relevant questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: When we compiled a commonage report, we said that any additional measures would need to include 80% of active farmers. I wish to qualify what is being said. I refer to those doing something under a basic GLAS scheme who happen to be in a designated hen harrier zone while the area next to them is not. Measures have to be taken into account for those in such designated zones which are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: The €2,000 additional priority might be the payment that is under question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: Remember privilege.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: We are straying outside the six-monthly report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Andrew Doyle: We are straying outside the remit of this meeting.