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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Was it well opened?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am talking about the loan scheme where people could borrow money.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What I am talking about is the loan scheme where companies that were exporting food products could get €500,000 or €250,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Enterprise Ireland was involved in it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Christal talked about China being a new market or whatever. What is Enterprise Ireland's input in it? Is it that it gives grants for different machinery in the factories or does it go out with Bord Bia to the different places?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I refer to the foreign missions we go on for trade. Does Enterprise Ireland go on them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What is Enterprise Ireland's part in it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Do the witnesses find that with our meat factories, it is basically them that are sending out the meat? They do their own thing and take their own stands. They do not even bother with Enterprise Ireland. They might get capital grants but when it comes to selling the food at the different stands they take their own stand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Logistics and all that is part of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Christal spoke about Australia and New Zealand and places like that and market pressures. Does Enterprise Ireland forecast around that or is it Bord Bia that does all that side of it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Senator Daly would have spoken about about this earlier around marketing and milk products, be it sheep or goats. I presume goats are as near to a ewe as you will get. Have we Irish companies that Enterprise Ireland is liaising with on exporting cheeses and goat's milk or sheep's milk?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I know there are the big processors. I will put it this way. In Ireland at the moment, if a farmer wanted to do organic milk we do not have the drying facility. Would that not be fair to say? Have the witnesses looked at that? Germany is supposed to be a fairly good market for organic stuff. Have they gone to any of the processors and said they will support the infrastructure for the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Christal mentioned more than ten people being employed earlier, or something like that. Why is there this type of a threshold when we are looking at markets that may need a significant injection of funds? I am talking about the organic milk area. Not every farmer in Ireland is going to do this, first of all. If we go to the conventional places, they will give 60 cent per litre. It...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it just the big guys?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Or organic and fermenting activities?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Enterprise Ireland get involved in other areas? This morning we heard the news, and I know this is different, that the Dutch voted yesterday to ban imports of calves. Does Enterprise Ireland get involved straightaway in an area to see where we might get new markets, or is it Bord Bia that does this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Just to get this clear in my head, I wish to establish what Enterprise Ireland is open to. I have talked to many organic farmers doing organic milk. They were saying that it goes into the same place as every other bit of milk. This is what happens in many cases, but not in all. If these organic farmers were to have their own small set-up in this regard, a co-operative or whatever, would...