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Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: I move:“That Dáil Éireann: notes:— that beef and suckler farmers are at their wits’ end, experiencing a severe income crisis, under significant financial stress, and struggling to maintain their livelihoods; — how utter despair has forced individual farmers to resume protest at factories; — the determined action by beef farmers in support of the...

Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: Unfortunately, we have a very difficult situation in our beef sector. The motion addresses many of the key difficulties facing the sector. It was put down before the talks took place last weekend and I know those talks addressed some of the issues that the motion raises. However, it is not the first time Fianna Fáil has come before the Dáil with Private Members' motions. Indeed,...

Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank everyone who contributed to the debate. I thank Sinn Féin and Deputy Naughten for their amendments, which we will be accepting. As everyone has outlined, the debates today and yesterday take place at a time of grave uncertainty for our beef sector and great difficulty for the farming community. What we have seen over the last weeks needs to lead to a total change in the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme Data (18 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 168. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the transaction costs built into 2014-2020 RDP schemes and the way in which they operate (details supplied); the detail of each scheme operating in the 2014-2020 RDP that has a transaction cost built in in tabular form; the transaction costs for each RDP scheme in percentage terms; the additional payment available to eligible...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Payments (19 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 178. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) under the area based payment scheme for 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38138/19]

Agrifood and Rural Development: Motion (24 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: I am sharing my time with my colleagues and we will all take two minutes each. The Taoiseach recently indicated that he wants to eat less beef but beef has been a regular feature on the menu in the Chamber in the past two weeks - twice last week and again today. That is only right considering the very difficult position farmers find themselves in, the unacceptable incomes they receive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Council of Ireland Report: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: I will take up where Deputy Cahill left off. There is a lot of concern regarding the impact of the decision to open up ownership to laypersons. In my county, practices have closed down having moved into lay ownership. Many concerns were raised about this in advance by both vets and Veterinary Ireland, which is the representative body for the vast majority of practice vets and which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Council of Ireland Report: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: That was in writing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Council of Ireland Report: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: If the council had sought specific relevant legal advice prior to the changes in the code in 2017, does Ms Muldoon think we would be in the situation we are in, whereby non-registered persons are operating veterinary practices outside of the regulation of the council and in contravention of the Veterinary Practice Act 2005?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Council of Ireland Report: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: If I may, I will delve further into the legal advice the council received on lay ownership prior to the decision to change the code in December 2017. Ms Muldoon stated previously that that legal advice indicated that the council did not have any specific role in legal ownership, but the legislation is silent on the matter. What did the legal advice say to the council about its capacity,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Council of Ireland Report: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes, but I am asking for the detail of that advice. What was so solid about the advice that the council could not continue with its previous code, which prohibited lay ownership? The Act is silent on the matter. Did that legal advice not then leave it open and give the council discretion to continue to prohibit lay ownership on the basis that it could have an impact on the operation of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Council of Ireland Report: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: No. I refer to the initial advice given prior to the decision to change the code in December 2017.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Council of Ireland Report: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: Regarding the advice the council received prior to the initial decision to change the code, which allowed for lay ownership, the decision to change the code was later paused and the council carried wider consultation. However, in advance of the initial decision to change the code to allow for lay ownership in the future, as I hear it here, the advice on the specifics of the legality of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Council of Ireland Report: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: That legal advice is not particularly directional though in that it stated there was no legal impediment. It does not specifically require the council to change its code of conduct either in that it does not say there is a legal impediment. It states that lay ownership should be allowed, so it strikes me that it left it very much in the Veterinary Council's court as to how it might proceed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Council of Ireland Report: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: Can Mr. Ó Scanaill elaborate a little on that? What does he mean when he says there was lay involvement previously? Was that in contradiction of the code?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Council of Ireland Report: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: Companies buying out practices put non-compete clauses into vets' contracts so that if they leave, they cannot set up in the same area. Would that not be the expected practice of businesses coming into this market? They could therefore completely impede this and put a burden on the vet's freedom of movement and his or her capacity to properly meet their responsibilities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Council of Ireland Report: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: A fourth party is very much in the equation then, because the company has-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Council of Ireland Report: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: Who owns the practice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Council of Ireland Report: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: Where there is lay ownership, is the client list owned by the lay ownership?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Council of Ireland Report: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: If there is a four or five-man practice with one certificate of suitability for clinical oversight of the practice, meaning there is one vet in charge, and all are employees of a lay company with a premises, who has the clients?