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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: You are out of time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: Okay Mr. Farrell.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: Okay Mr. Farrell.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: I invite the INHFA representatives to make their opening remarks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: I thank our guests for outlining the issues with TB. Before I go to the committee members I want to be the devil's advocate here. The Committee of Public Accounts has focused on the cost of TB to the Exchequer. It is 20 years since there was an agreement that farmers would pay for their annual herd test and there was a reduction of levies at that stage. My understanding of that agreement...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: Does anyone else wish to comment on the Exchequer aspect?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: I thank Mr. Hanrahan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: I thank the Senator. Those are very straightforward questions. Is the forum working? Is the Department participating fully in it? We will confine Mr. Bourke to two minutes on the answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: That was a comprehensive list of questions from the Deputy. I will give the organisations three minutes each to try to answer them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: I will give Mr. Bourke four minutes then.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: I ask Mr. McCormack to explain that. Is it not a 36-month limit then? Can it come down?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: Our customers will not allow it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: That is a good improvement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: The other witnesses might address that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. A common theme ran through what the five organisations had to say. It was good to hear that people have confidence in the forum with regard to the contribution wildlife is making to the spread of TB. I remember when the initial badger experiment was done in Offaly. There was considerable resistance in getting that experiment going at the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: I would say the peat is of inferior quality.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: I call on Senator Paul Daly because we have to finish by 3 p.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: I thank the Minister of State. As I said at the outset of the meeting, we are grateful to the Minister of State for coming in here today. She can see there is huge frustration here. The Minister of State might say that the industry will not go under. There are complicating factors out there. There is virtually a labour shortage in the horticultural industry. Energy costs are putting...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural Schemes: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: I remind witnesses and members, and visitors in the Public Gallery to turn off their mobile phones. The purpose of today's meeting is to undertake an examination of various schemes: the basic payment scheme, BPS; the organic farming scheme; the agri-climate rural environment scheme, ACRES; the beef genomics scheme; the beef environmental efficiency programme, BEEP; and the targeted...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural Schemes: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Jackie Cahill: I call Mr. Keane.