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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: Therefore, the message to farmers in hen harrier areas is: "Live horse, get grass."
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: I have two or three discrete questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: If part of what farmers are claiming for under GLAS is a hen harrier designation and a locally led agri-environment scheme comes on stream that deals with being in a hen harrier zone, can the GLAS scheme be changed so that farmers can choose alternative measures within GLAS so as to retain the full amount and get payments under the locally led agri-environment scheme on top of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: My other two questions were entirely separate. I refer to Directive 65/432/EC on inter-community trade in bovines and swine. The Department is concerned about it because a lot of our beef is traded. Department policy is to prevent cattle from staying in lairage or in marts overnight where possible. It is a good policy, but sometimes such things are unavoidable because of the nature of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: I did not name anyone. If the Chairman wishes, I could name somebody who is supposed to be funding them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: There are movements towards uniformity within the EU. I was told proudly by departmental officials that they were looking to Ireland as the standard to be achieved by other states, yet when I asked whether Ireland is in favour of agreeing these uniform standards, I was told we were not at all, because we might have to accept boats that are licensed in Greece, Spain or other major maritime...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: We are, but it is the EU law-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: I would like to hear the officials say it is not and that the move towards uniformity in standards-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: Will the Department move towards accepting boats that are licensed in other EU member states and, if not, in the short term, will it move towards accepting harmonised standards? If those harmonised standards are achieved across the EU, will it then accept boats licensed by other EU member states?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: Will Mr. O'Driscoll please answer the question about live exports?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: It has that result, even if it is entirely inadvertent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: I am not proposing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: In fairness, I never proposed that Ireland should accept an eight-hour limit in shipping. I am well aware Ireland must ship through the Bay of Biscay, which poses considerable difficulties.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: My earlier point was that the only way the cattle can leave Ireland is dead means, inadvertently or otherwise, that beef processors have rich pickings in Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: I am not proposing an eight-hour restriction.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: I am not proposing an eight-hour restriction.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: What I am proposing is that we move towards uniformity in shipping standards in Europe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: Who said it should involve an eight-hour restriction?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: It is not what he said. He said they are two separate issues, and they are.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: I seek clarification on one point that has been made. The Department has asked farmers to consider how they can move from tier 3 to tier 2. Farmers with bird breeding grounds on their lands are tier 1. As I live near Lough Derg, I know there are a lot of areas around it, and also in east Clare lakelands and across Clare, that are bird habitats. The habitats have been noted as such by the...