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Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: If he has, that is news to me. If the Leas-Cheann Comhairle says he has, I am willing to accept that. It may be an oversight on my part. I have not seen his ruling. He may well have sent it and I did not see it. If that is the case, I apologise.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: I take it the Ceann Comhairle's ruling is that he will not direct that it-----

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: I have not seen that letter. I apologise for that. Regardless of whether the Ceann Comhairle has sent the letter, and I accept that the decision is entirely at his discretion or that of a committee Cathaoirleach, this is no way to make law. I appreciate that the Minister of State does not think it is ideal but he is determined to get this Bill done and have everything completed. I agree...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: I do not doubt that the officials have worked very hard but this House also has a role in working very hard, which is to analyse and tease out legislation. That is not happening in this instance. I accept the Minister of State worked hard to bring forward this legislation. Given the pace at which it had progressed before the Minister of State assumed the office, I questioned if it would be...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (12 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: 619. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare who has received the 2023 single farm payment is not allowed by the Department’s computer system to apply for ACRES tier 2 scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54928/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teagasc Activities (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: When we talk about sustainable farming, there is a great deal of talk about sustainability generally, and everybody claims to be sustainable. For example, Amazon is very sustainable, notwithstanding the very large proportion of returns which went to landfill and the fact it is wiping out shops in small towns and villages across Ireland. This firm claims to be sustainable. Likewise, a big...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teagasc Activities (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: Yes it is, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Big discount retailers stick a seeding roof on their shop a call themselves sustainable. When we talk about sustainable agriculture, we have to know exactly we mean by sustainable. It is very important to define that. I know that a newly elected Green Party councillor in 2019 said that Origin Green was painting a false image to the world and that it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Carcase Disposal (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: 11. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will promulgate emergency interim measures to allow farmers and knackeries to dispose of dead animals in light of their accumulation, with the resultant risk to sanitation, due to the strike by renderers since 1 December 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55812/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Carcase Disposal (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: Will the Minister promulgate emergency interim measures to allow farmers and knackeries to dispose of dead animals in light of their accumulation, with the resulting risk to sanitation, due to the strike by renderers since 1 December 2023? Will he make a statement on the matter? Perhaps that statement might address whether the concentration of power and ownership in the processing sector is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Carcase Disposal (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: For parts of the country, it will be of great benefit to be able to dispose of animals in Northern Ireland; however, for the part of the country I represent, and I dare say any part south of that, it will be less helpful, purely because of the geography. The cost of driving dead animals from west Cork to Northern Ireland would be prohibitive. I do not know whether the Minister can tell us...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Carcase Disposal (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: At the outset, I asked whether the Minister thinks that the concentration of ownership within the processing sector, which includes the rendering sector, is part of the problem and is coming back to bite the Department, as it has done. Farmers have been objecting to the concentration of power in the beef processing sector for a very long time. Is the fact that there are so few renderers and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: I do not think a duck could swim the Dodder.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: On that very issue, there is increasing speculation within the House, and particularly outside it, and I would like to give the Government the opportunity to dispel it. The speculation is that the reason for the non-payment is not computer problems but rather that the Minister’s ambition for the scheme overshot his budget. That is an acknowledged problem in other Departments but I...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: I can say it is circulating.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: The money is not there.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: 53. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will instruct his Department to make interim, part payments immediately to farmers in ACRES tranche one, following the announcement by his Department that it will not pay monies out on this scheme until February 2024, in view of farmers’ reliance on the scheme payments to pay end-of-year bills; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: 469. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 481 of 5 December 2023, if his Department seeks any record of individual occupancy per night from IPAS accommodation contract providers; if it maintains any record of individual occupancy in IPAS accommodation centres per night; if he will provide any such figures in his...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: The fact that Committee Stage is being held in the Dáil Chamber rather than in committee rooms, as normally happens, makes it somewhat more formal. Normally in a committee room there is a possibility for an exchange with the Minister. Will there be such a possibility or do we just ask questions now and hope they will be answered at some point in the next three or four hours?

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: The Minister is a legal academic and he brings that strength to his position. It is without doubt that a constitutional referendum, if accepted, will introduce changes to the legal regime. As I am sure the Minister will be aware, the issue of recognition of foreign marriages is one in which there has been very heavy litigation in the Irish courts, including in the case of HAH. I would like...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: I am quite happy to allow the Minister time to respond.