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Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They are contained in the motion.

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister of State should read them. They are contained in the motion.

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I understand it is ten minutes.

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Deputy only took five minutes.

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a quarter of an hour or 15 minutes in the slot.

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It should be ten minutes. We have proposed solutions. We proposed the appointment of a beef regulator. We proposed bringing forward urgently the legislation for producer groups. We proposed dealing with the logjam which means that a farmer cannot export cattle live to Britain from Dublin in lorries. We proposed dealing with the labelling issue which means that cattle born and bred on...

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: He cannot take criticism, does not listen and has no wish to debate. I keep hearing about the €12 billion the Minister secured. This was the first time ever that the CAP budget was down. Let us put the €12 billion into perspective. The Government will spend €12 billion in seven months on social welfare. The Minister has got €12 billion but not for seven years...

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We want good prices, too.

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If Deputy Patrick O'Donovan wants to debate that issue, he should attend the committee some day and I will take him through my proposals.

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What I propose for County Wexford would be much better for it than what the Government is actually doing.

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The reality is that the European Union is aware of the problem posed by retailers and processors' power, but the Minister did not deem what is probably the greatest challenge facing us important enough to put it at the top of the Common Agricultural Policy reform agenda. What are we doing with the CAP moneys? Compared with this time last year, a much higher percentage of the amount a...

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will tell the Minister of State what I want.

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will explain it exactly. I want control of-----

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Where there is abuse. I will provide an example. Many farmers allege that the collapse in bull beef prices is directly linked with last year's horsemeat scandal.

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Their allegation is that, when the scandal resulted in much tighter inspections by supermarkets of what they were buying, the beef that was intended to be sold into the market could no longer be sold. I am only saying what is being alleged. If we had a regulator, he or she could find out whether the allegation was true. Regulators check to ensure there is no abuse of a dominant position in...

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It has become apparent that up to 10,000 farmers who have been in receipt of single farm payments will no longer be eligible for them under the new regulations negotiated by the Minister in Brussels. It is also becoming apparent that 10% of farmers will not be able to access the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS, because of the small print in the negotiations.

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is becoming apparent that, on the issue of-----

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, it is true.

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I was in the Department this week-----

Beef Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To quote Shakespeare, the Government doth protest too much.