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Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: Not only that; it would not be sold below a certain price.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: I wish to respond to the Minister's comments. What I am proposing to do in this amendment is give future Ministers the power to introduce such an order. Why does the Minister not want the power to introduce such an order? The amendments I have proposed do not require the Minister to do anything by regulation but they facilitate him in bringing in specific regulations to do certain things....

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: He wants to stop them having the power to help anybody, and that is a historical failure.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: The Minister can read English.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: That is clearly what the amendment says.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: The amendment clearly states that sale or resale "may be prohibited by regulation". I have not changed it in the past ten minutes, hour, day or week. That is what it states; that is what I proposed. The Minister possibly did not read it, but that is his business. The Minister seems happy with a scenario whereby Irish beef producers should produce below the cost of production and a...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: The Minister digressed; so did I.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: Ba mhaith liom mo thacaíocht a thabhairt don leasú tábhachtach seo ó na Teachtaí Kerrane agus Martin Browne. To respond to the previous comments made, Deputy Ó Snodaigh said nobody had any problem with An Garda Síochána or Córas Iompair Éireann over the years. I presume he meant just the title.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: Very good. On the matter of indulgences - I am hoping not to turn you into a medieval pope, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, given the number you are giving out tonight - I wish to respond to my constituency colleague. I also declare that I am a farmer, as I did on the previous night. I am a beef finisher. I wish the Deputy every success as an organic farmer. I envy him because I would very...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: I commend the Minister on indicating he will accept the amendment. It is of considerable importance that the Bill, as previously drafted, has been beefed up somewhat, if he will pardon the pun. The Bill states the regulator shall "collect, analyse and regularly publish reports" and the amendment adds to section 12(3), under the line "In pursuance of its duties under this section the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: The Minister has given commitments. In fairness to him and to his officials, I will not call a vote or press this amendment further at this stage but I reserve the right to come back to it on Report Stage. There is one point I wish to raise, however. It relates to this idea that we will have a single organisation and everybody will just work for An Garda Síochána without...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: I move amendment No. 63: In page 90, line 16, to delete “to withhold his or her services”. Amendments Nos. 63 and 153 are similar. In 2014 or thereabouts, the European Confederation of Police, EuroCOP, to which the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors, AGSI, is affiliated, took a case to the European Committee of Social Rights and was successful. The Committee...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: It might have been expected.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: I will withdraw the amendment while reserving my right to reintroduce it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: I move amendment No. 153. In page 251, after line 14, to insert the following: “ 6. No. 19 of 1990 Industrial Relations Act 1990 Section 23(1D) and the Sixth Schedule. ”. I will return to the amendment on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: As I was not here for section 207, I wish to raise my reservations about this police ombudsman proposal and the powers of a police ombudsman.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: I wish to raise section 207. I appreciate that I was not present. The Bill progressed with considerable haste and I wish to raise my reservations about the fact that a search of a Garda station, etc, must be notified and essentially requires the agreement of the Garda Commissioner to do this. I am not entirely sure that that is consistent with a fully independent investigative role and is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (9 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: 178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent by Transport Infrastructure Ireland cutting trees beside national roads and motorway networks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21221/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (9 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: 179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of permits obtained for the cutting of trees beside the motorway and national roads network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21222/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (9 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: 476. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for legislative change in light of recent tree felling at Ryevale House and the destruction of trees in hedgerows in Clare, in particular by, and the behest of, Clare County Council, since the commencement of the Forestry Act 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21175/23]