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- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Thomas Pringle: I am discussing outputs under programme B and the number of hectares of new forestry planting.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Thomas Pringle: There is also the number of herds participating in the animal welfare scheme for sheep. The target was 33,000 and the output was 19,000. The target for 2018 was 23,000 but we do not know anything about what the output was. In programme D, with regard to fisheries, which is the largest expenditure group in the 2019 Estimate, the figure is €42.488 million.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Thomas Pringle: Yes, with regard to fisheries. I would like a breakdown of what that €42 million for 2019 accounts for. With regard to the outputs for the number of aquaculture development licences under programme D, in 2017 the target was 235 determinations and the outturn was 109, which is approximately 50%. How do we know how many were done in 2018? We have a target figure but we have no...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Thomas Pringle: With respect, it is a bit rich to have these figures and not have the outturns. We should not have to ask for them.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Thomas Pringle: Yes, but how can we know what the Estimate is? The 2017 outturn and targets are there.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Thomas Pringle: There is €42.488 million for the 2019 Estimate for current and capital expenditure under subhead D3.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Thomas Pringle: The weather was just as bad in 2017.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Thomas Pringle: I asked about the animal welfare scheme for sheep.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Thomas Pringle: Subhead B10 relates to forestry and bioenergy. How is that broken down?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Thomas Pringle: Is the name just added on to it?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Thomas Pringle: The word "forestry" should just be used.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Thomas Pringle: I have a question on programme A and the number of food safety and hygiene inspections carried out in 2017. There was a target of 9,400 and 3,600 were carried out.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Thomas Pringle: If we had received the documentation laid out here, it would have been a great deal easier to look at what is being done. It is not unusual documentation. Basically, they are the outturn targets and the outturns. I am sure the Department has done this previously and has provided the information to us. I do know why it is not done this way. It is retrograde and makes it difficult for us...
- Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)
Thomas Pringle: As is the case with everything when it come to Brexit, the issue of agriculture is up in the air and nobody knows where it will land. As other Members stated, Brexit leaves the Government in a difficult position because it does not know in what way it should prepare for change. It could go down the road of preparing for a no-deal Brexit only to find that a deal is struck and all its...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Data (3 Apr 2019)
Thomas Pringle: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stages of building of each of the schools due funding from the 2016-2021 capital plan; if each of the projects are on schedule; the schools and the status of each, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15520/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Employment Service (4 Apr 2019)
Thomas Pringle: 5. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the timeframe for the upcoming tendering process for the future provision of employment services nationally; the reason active consideration will not be given to a public procurement process despite the success of local employment services in successfully achieving full-time employment for over 28% of referrals...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Employment Service (4 Apr 2019)
Thomas Pringle: This question relates to how the Department is proposing to terminate the community-based employment services under the local employment schemes and job clubs in the country by the end of this year. The Department is initiating a competitive procurement process for future services. It is clear from my previous interactions with the Minister that a payment-by-results arrangement as used in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Employment Service (4 Apr 2019)
Thomas Pringle: We have ongoing interactions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Employment Service (4 Apr 2019)
Thomas Pringle: I take it from what the Minister has said that the tendering process is going to be found that will allow community based programmes to tender. I take it the process will not be totally on a privatised basis. Is that what I can take from the response of the Minister? If that is the case, then it is most welcome but that does not seem to be the way the Department has been going. I call on...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Employment Service (4 Apr 2019)
Thomas Pringle: I am glad to hear the tendering process will be fair and that the people to whom I referred can compete for them. I am interested in the Minister's comments to the effect that no two jobseekers are the same. It is a pity she does not tell JobPath that, because JobPath behaves in a way that suits its own needs. The local employment schemes are very successful and very important, especially...