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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (1 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: We are now in public session to discuss the scrutiny proposals before the committee today. The first proposal is Schedule A, COM (2005) 559. It is a proposal for a Council regulation fixing for 2016 the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, applicable in European Union waters and for European Union vessels in certain non-European Union waters. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: We are now in public session. I welcome members of the organic farming scheme today. Before we begin I remind members and witnesses to ensure their mobile phones are switched off completely as they cause interference with the broadcasting equipment. I welcome the representatives from Bord Bia Ms Eileen Bentley, entrepreneurship manager, Mr. Mark Zieg, sector manager for beef and Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: Deputy Ó Cuív without interruption.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: Do the same rules not apply?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: It is something to highlight and send on further afield, obviously. This is a big issue for farmers. I seek another clarification from the witnesses. Is there a European standard that everyone must meet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: So there is a minimum and a maximum standard. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: There is a plan B.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: I thank the witnesses for their presentation and their attendance. We have had a number of meetings on this topic over the past number of weeks. We will compile the evidence and send it to the appropriate Minister with our views on the matter. Hopefully, progress will be made as a result of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: BirdWatch Ireland (1 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: Before we begin, I remind members and witnesses to ensure their mobile phones are switched off completely as they cause interference with the broadcasting equipment. I thank Ms Siobhán Egan, head of policy, communications and people engagement for BirdWatch Ireland, for attending to discuss the sea-fisheries sustainability impact assessment. Witnesses are protected by absolute...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: BirdWatch Ireland (1 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: I thank Ms Egan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: BirdWatch Ireland (1 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: I thank Ms Egan for the presentation. It has been a useful discussion in advance of the Minister coming before the committee next week and in advance of the Council meeting towards the end of December. I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee today. As there is no other business this meeting will adjourn. The Thursday meeting with the agriculture committee from Northern...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (3 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: 159. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding in 2016 for the construction of a new Holy Angels day care facility in County Carlow to replace the outdated prefabricated facility which is home to the support services of mental and physically disabled children. [43203/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (3 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: 160. To ask the Minister for Health the status on locating a new respite house, Tír na nÓg, for the Holy Angels day care facility in County Carlow. [43204/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (8 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: 125. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Carlow was not granted, given that the person has a long-term disability and if she will review the case. [43907/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (8 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: 137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny who is in receipt of jobseekers allowance does not qualify for the Christmas bonus. [44057/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (8 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: 185. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will counteract the apparent inequity in the current agreement to reduce public service pension reductions for the approximately 25,000 retired civil servants who have an income of greater than €34,132 per year. [44000/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Council (8 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: 664. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will allocate extra funding to the Heritage Council to compensate for the loss of funding to the Burren Life Wicklow upland project and the Blackstairs farming group, given that such groups play a significant part in rural Ireland, and without this additional funding such projects will not be able to progress. [44138/15]

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: Like the previous speaker, I welcome this Supplementary Estimate. It is encouraging, when one sees the overall figure for disallowances around Europe, that we are way below the average. It is 0.49% in Ireland and the overall EU average is 1.96%. That is, I suppose, how we end up where we are today. No doubt it would have been a bad news story if we could not come up with this funding for...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: I want to know about price volatility in all sectors and not just the dairy sector. It is dairy today but it may be beef tomorrow and tillage some other year.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Pat Deering: Much concern has been expressed in recent days about the takeover of a number of meat plants throughout the country by one individual and the ABP Food Group. For example, it has taken over Slaney Foods. It has now become a potentially dominant player in the market. The Competition and Consumer Protection Act was passed by the Oireachtas a year ago but no regulations have been put in place...