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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Park-and-Ride Facilities (19 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: 30. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what facilities, if any, are in place to enable persons without a bank card to pay for parking at Ballybrophy railway station. [18437/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Park-and-Ride Facilities (19 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: 31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what facilities, if any, are in place to enable persons who are illiterate to pay for parking at Ballybrophy railway station. [18438/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Park-and-Ride Facilities (19 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: 32. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the process by which a company (details supplied) was selected to supervise/manage the payment for parking at Ballybrophy railway station. [18439/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Park-and-Ride Facilities (19 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: 33. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any audit of the user friendliness of (details supplied) including for elderly persons or persons with impaired capacity, has been carried out by his Department. [18440/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Park-and-Ride Facilities (19 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: 34. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any audit of the user friendliness of a company (details supplied) including for elderly persons or persons with impaired capacity, has been carried out by CIE, before it was selected to operate car parking at Ballybrophy railway station. [18441/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: 104. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will accept certification from foresters accredited with his Department as to the status of an ash plantation for the purposes of removal of dead trees and replanting, or whether he is insisting on certification by his own Department’s officials on the matter. [18552/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (20 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: 132. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify whether a reduction in the genomic rating of individual bovines in a herd during the course of the new Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP) will impact on the herd owner’s eligibility or whether the animal’s rating at the commencement of the scheme or, in the case of livestock bought in, the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: The programme for Government pledges to introduce a new food authority that will ensure "fairness, equity, and transparency in the food chain”. The legislation to do that is coming before the House tomorrow on Report Stage. Twenty-five amendments have been put forward in good faith, the majority by the Opposition but a significant minority by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: I thank the Taoiseach.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: I thank the Minister of State.

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: I move amendment No. 2: In page 8, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “ “livestock producer” means any person engaged in the business of selling livestock to a meat processing plant for slaughter (including the sale of livestock from a meat processor to another meat processor);”. I thank the Ceann Comhairle and the Government Chief Whip for...

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: Amendment No. 2 provides what I suggest is a fairly non-contentious definition of a livestock producer, which is "any person engaged in the business of selling livestock to a meat processing plant for slaughter (including the sale of livestock from a meat processor to another meat processor)". Amendment No. 3 defines a meat processing plant. Again, I suggest this is relatively...

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: The use of feedlots is just one of the avenues open to processors to keep down prices. This amendment does not require anybody to do anything but it facilitates the Minister or his successors to introduce legislation requiring very extensive reporting by meat processors on the "type of purchase, including grades, and age, the quantity of cattle purchased on a live weight basis, the quantity...

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: In seeking to introduce transparency, the Minister has avoided the elephant in the room, which is the relationship between processors and retailers and the role-----

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: I did not agree to these amendments being grouped. In fairness, they are slightly disparate amendments that deserve an adequate discussion.

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: I urge the Minister to accept these amendments, not because he has to implement regulations I have set out here, but because he could introduce regulations if he thought they were necessary or, more importantly,-----

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: -----if the regulator he is establishing thought they were necessary. The Minister is proposing to give a regulator-----

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: -----a job he or she and his or her office will be unable to do, which is to introduce transparency in the food chain, especially when it comes to the murky world of meat processors in Ireland.

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: That is the legislative process.

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: To suggest that the powers that are proposed to be given to the Minister and his successors to make regulations requiring transparency in the food chain is already covered in this Bill is patently incorrect. Where does the Minister or the regulator have the power to require beef processors to provide data on the amount of feedlot cattle that are being killed? That has an important impact on...