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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Post-EU Council Meeting of Agriculture and Fisheries: Discussion (29 Mar 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: No. Do not be asking me what part I do not agree with. Talk to Prime Minister May about what part she does not agree with. To me, it seems clear that it means that the whole of the UK, Britain and Northern Ireland, would remain aligned to the European Union. That is what that means to me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Post-EU Council Meeting of Agriculture and Fisheries: Discussion (29 Mar 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: If it was to fall through and the British Government were to take the same interpretation of it, that would be great. However, it has not. It has an entirely different interpretation of it. That means it can do its own thing trade-wise, there is no border in the Irish Sea yet there would be no border on the island of Ireland, which are two contradictory outcomes. We then have disagreement...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Post-EU Council Meeting of Agriculture and Fisheries: Discussion (29 Mar 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Post-EU Council Meeting of Agriculture and Fisheries: Discussion (29 Mar 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: Certainly not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Post-EU Council Meeting of Agriculture and Fisheries: Discussion (29 Mar 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: The Minister seems to be ignoring the fact that there is total disagreement about what the backstop is. There is total disagreement there. It is as plain as the nose on our face.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Post-EU Council Meeting of Agriculture and Fisheries: Discussion (29 Mar 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: They have been saying all along the way that they can leave the EU, do all the things they want, there will be no Border and there will be this mythical frictionless Border. We know it is a load of codswallop. We would be totally wrong to take them at face value because it should not be taken at face value. Until the backstop is agreed in terms of the legal text, it is not solid-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Post-EU Council Meeting of Agriculture and Fisheries: Discussion (29 Mar 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: The final point I want to make is that three or four weeks ago, Europe was talking about the legal text for the backstop, which it published and which it was going to press and basically require the UK to agree to. The UK said it would not agree to it and did not agree with the legal text, so instead of Europe forcing the issue and saying it will not move on until the UK agrees to the legal...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Post-EU Council Meeting of Agriculture and Fisheries: Discussion (29 Mar 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: That would be fine if a backstop was agreed-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Post-EU Council Meeting of Agriculture and Fisheries: Discussion (29 Mar 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: Minister-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Post-EU Council Meeting of Agriculture and Fisheries: Discussion (29 Mar 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: That is a load of nonsense. I am calling a spade a spade and am seeking clarification from the Minister. The Minister should not come back with glib assertions like that. I am calling it as it is in terms of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Post-EU Council Meeting of Agriculture and Fisheries: Discussion (29 Mar 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: Until it is agreed, it is not solid.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Post-EU Council Meeting of Agriculture and Fisheries: Discussion (29 Mar 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: That is a very good question, Chairman. We fully support Food Wise 2025 and when we were in government, we wrote Food Harvest 2020. That was done not only as a blueprint for the development of agriculture, but it was done in a pre-Brexit environment. It set targets and set out the actions required to achieve those targets in the context of a pre-Brexit environment. If those targets are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ongoing Fodder Crisis: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Apr 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister for coming in today to discuss this important matter. It is disappointing we do not have more time to discuss it today and that we are under such time pressure given that plenty of notice was given of the request for this meeting bearing in mind the importance of the issue under discussion. The Chairman indicated that we must conclude by 3.50 p.m. It is disappointing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ongoing Fodder Crisis: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Apr 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: Regarding the €1.5 million limit on the import subsidy, the terms and conditions of the scheme indicate that if it is over-subscribed over and above €1.5 million, the payment-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ongoing Fodder Crisis: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Apr 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: The Department's own press releases did that. I welcome the Minister's confirmation that it will not be limited to that if necessary but the terms and conditions of the scheme also confined it to-----
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: I move:That Dáil Éireann:notes: — the major role agriculture plays in creating employment, generating economic activity and acting as a custodian of the countryside in Ireland; — the unique vulnerability and exposure of agriculture to fluctuations in the weather; — the on-going hardship inflicted upon farming communities across Ireland due to the fodder...
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: We will commence. I am moving this motion, along with my Fianna Fáil colleagues, and we hope for widespread support, which I am confident we will get across the House. Unfortunately, this is not the first time Fianna Fáil Deputies have come together in recent months to move a motion asking the Government to recognise a very real fodder crisis and respond appropriately to it. This...
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: Where was Deputy Burke all winter?
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy should have focussed on the lack of detail in the Government response to the crisis.
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Charlie McConalogue: I thank everyone for their contributions tonight and for their support of the motion. It was disappointing to see a number of Deputies from the Minister's party attack the Opposition and Fianna Fáil for coming forward with the motion instead of reflecting on the performance of the Government in dealing with the issue and trying to head it off. In the Minister's comments he indicated...