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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Tim Lombard: Deputy, stick to pre-legislative scrutiny.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Tim Lombard: Is there any way that Deputy Browne could come down to the committee room to take over the Chair for a period? We have been called to a vote in the Seanad and we need a member to take over the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Tim Lombard: I apologise to the witnesses. We are having an issue with regard to votes. Deputy Browne will now come down to take over the Chair. Senator Daly and I will go to vote in the Seanad and will return afterwards. I ask the witnesses to bear with us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Tim Lombard: I welcome Mr. Arnold Dillon. Witnesses giving evidence from within the parliamentary precincts are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they give to a committee. This means that witnesses have full defence in any defamation action for anything said at a committee meeting. However, they are expected not to abuse this privilege and may be directed by the Chair to cease...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Tim Lombard: I thank Mr. Dillon for his very detailed and comprehensive presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Tim Lombard: I have a question about the bedding-in process over the past 18 months. Mr. Dillon might give me a flavour of where he thinks the bedding-in process has happened with these UTPs and what he thinks is required to make sure there is an uptake of information. In his presentation does it state that it is the primary producer or the retailer that has the issue with knowledge of this? Where does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Tim Lombard: That is the issue. Where does this campaign go? For the new authority, taking into consideration the lack of knowledge at primary level of the legislation brought in 18 months ago, what does Mr. Dillon envisage will be the drive to make sure we get that knowledge base for the new legislation down to the primary producer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Tim Lombard: One of the big issues with the new forum that has been set up is the gathering of data and how that is done. I asked the previous witnesses about this issue. These are publicly available data. Does Mr. Dillon think there will be an issue with the gathering of these data? Does he think there will be a sensitivity, to say the very least, around this issue? Does he think there will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Tim Lombard: The key for this new organisation to be successful is the gathering of these data. Does Mr. Dillon think Retail Ireland's membership feels threatened by that issue, or will there be buy-in at a local level in that regard? Having spoken to retailers, I think they are generally concerned about this legislation. They have a view that it might be a little heavy-handed.

Seanad: Animal Welfare: Motion (14 Jul 2022)

Tim Lombard: It is great to be here on this last day of the Seanad. This is a very important motion which gives us the opportunity to debate where we are in the agricultural sector with regard to animal health, in particular the issues pertaining to the motion. If we look at what the farming community has done in recent decades, there has been dramatic and huge change in practices and in education....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Tim Lombard: I thank the Chairman for the opportunity to address the witnesses. I will start with grid capacity, the last issue raised by the Minister. One of the key issues for the smaller generation sector is that it has a vital say in this. At the moment, there is no grid capacity in many places, as I discovered during the week in west Cork. An announcement was made today that the timelines for...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Transport (14 Sep 2022)

Tim Lombard: It is unprecedented that five Senators are speaking about the same Commencement matter. I have never seen it before in my time in the Oireachtas. Realistically, I have 172 or 173 kids on to me from west Cork at the moment. The majority of them had school tickets last year but because of the change in the scheme, they have been effectively thrown off the bus. These are working families who...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Transport (14 Sep 2022)

Tim Lombard: I might be wrong, but I think the review was started in February 2021. This issue is not about the review of how the transportation system will work for schools. The issue is that there was a change and we had a mass of people come on board looking for the scheme. Because of that, people who were always on the bus have been thrown off the bus. That is my problem. I am aware of hundreds...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Sep 2022)

Tim Lombard: I agree with my two colleagues on the issue of cystic fibrosis. What we saw this afternoon was a real, passionate cry for help in so many ways. The 35 kids who are waiting for this drug are stuck in limbo as they wait for the negotiations next Friday between the Department and the drug company. Accordingly, I suggest to the Leader that we might write to the Minister to say the matter was...

Seanad: Energy: Motion (14 Sep 2022)

Tim Lombard: I welcome the Minister to the Chamber. I think the last time we met was at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action in Leinster House. I am not a member of the committee, but I took the opportunity to attend so that I could be briefed on this important issue. We had four hours of debate that day. This debate is still ongoing and we still need clarity on many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Tim Lombard: The slurry exports have also doubled. If you were exporting slurry and were not in derogation, the volumes have changed so you are automatically brought back in. Slurry is a huge issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Tim Lombard: I will start with the banding. An interesting point was made about the 15% in the cohort that will be caught in respect of the banding. Has the Department done any analysis as to what reduction in numbers would be required? The majority of us would run on the basis of the life cycle of a cow being eight to ten years and, therefore, the breeding programme will have to change. That stock...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Tim Lombard: That is double now, though. The issue of exporting slurry has the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Tim Lombard: As for informing farmers and even advisers, there has been one webinar so far. The witnesses may correct me if I am wrong. What programme of information does the Department have to roll out over the next six months to inform advisers and farmers what is required with this new derogation? Is it proposing a roadshow of some nature? I do not mean a roadshow as part of the CAP reform, but a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Tim Lombard: That is only one webinar.