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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Does Ms Muldoon have figures to validate that and show when people are coming back onto the register?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: In respect of the HEA, we are aware that several submissions are in. I am pleased that Mr. Conlon is challenging the robustness and veracity of some of those, particularly in terms of the skill set and academic staff in place. A message that probably needs to go out is that we do not dismantle something to rebuild something. That is what we need to be doing. We hear from vets in the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge (9 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any plans to amend the €60,000 USC threshold for the over-70s; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21521/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (11 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: 97. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the IDA commitment to deliver an advanced building solution in Longford town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21902/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Development Contributions (11 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: 205. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any concessions will be made for builders of one-off homes who submitted their commencement notices during Covid but have been unable to commence works until this year (details supplied). [22268/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the witnesses and apologies we had to step outside. I picked up on Mr. Fleming's points. He said his whole argument is merit-based. Four universities have a pitch in and I am sure they are very detailed,based on the previous ones. I am a little concerned that everything has been staked on Limerick and I hoped he might have gone into more detail and set us apart why Limerick as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Can Mr. Moriarty assure us that speed does not come at the expense of the right location?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Mr. Moriarty does not have a Limerick jersey on underneath.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Okay. We agree it is a case of speed and there is a need to scale it. Everybody here agrees there is a high level of burnout among vets. It is an extremely difficult job. Especially for people with young families, it must be well-nigh impossible. With approximately 80 places in UCD for training vets, Mr. Moriarty has quite rightly pointed out that we are coming to a cliff edge with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Perhaps the point I am trying to get to is, looking at our profile and the number of farms vis-à-visother countries, what is the optimum number of graduate vets we need to be producing, given the age profile and to avoid this cliff-edge scenario? Obviously, we all agree that 80 to 82 is not the right number. What should it be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: We should be providing places for 300 people then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Yes. We might have to step it up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I am sorry, but I am just conscious of my time. I ask the witnesses to indulge me in addressing two more points, if that is okay with the Cathaoirleach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I appreciate it. We have a centre of excellence in UCD and there will always be a concern in this regard. If parents have a child who wants to become a vet, they will want their little Johnny to go to UCD, no matter if we have a new institution. There will always be an element of this attitude. The MRCVS is coming at this issue from the best interests of its...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Very good. This is a very parochial setting. Everyone will make a pitch for the university closest to them. Unfortunately, I do not think our university in the midlands has made a play for this new institution. Thinking hypothetically, however, if this endeavour got to the point where it was not just UL but UL and another institution, along with UCD, would the witnesses think such a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: If that happened, though, would Mr. Moriarty be concerned? I come back to my earlier point regarding trying to attract the required academic personnel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Again, I am conscious of time. To conclude, the advice from the MRCVS would be that the prudent approach would be to go with a second location and then further down the road, if needs be, to look at a third location. The prudent advice from the profession now, though, is to go with a second location only.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (16 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: 177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on a grant application under the circular economy innovation grant scheme 2022 from a company (details supplied). [22991/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: 356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to providing extra time in State examinations for dyslexic students. [23167/23]