Results 15,141-15,160 of 18,593 for speaker:Michael Creed
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Michael Creed: There is a Brexit heading in this under which there is no provision because it is a legacy heading from the previous year in terms of the loan scheme. There are a host of other provisions across all the subheads dealing with Brexit in various guises. Sometimes the subhead can be confusing. It is not deliberately so.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Michael Creed: My information is that the number of food safety and hygiene inspections carried out in 2017 was 3,657 and in 2018 it was 4,663. Then there were other controls. The controls associated with the issuing of health certificates for the export of meat and dairy products to third countries are considered to be other controls. They also encompass controls for new activities being carried out in...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Michael Creed: I take the Deputy's point.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Michael Creed: To what page is the Deputy referring?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Michael Creed: The output was 305.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Michael Creed: Yes.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Michael Creed: We stated that we would clear the backlog in three years. This year, 2019, will be the third year of it so we will have cleared the backlog relating to aquaculture licences.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Michael Creed: On Bord Bia, €47 million is a substantial increase in Exchequer funding, although I do not think the Deputy was making any contrary point, given that he was asking whether we had received the best value for the markets Bord Bia was targeting. That is always a challenge and I am not a marketing expert, but the team, the board and the executive are very good. I have a lot of confidence...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Michael Creed: As the Deputy will be aware, we commissioned a cost-benefit analysis, which we are studying. The laboratories are critical to our offering. There seems to be a conspiracy theory that, whether it be Sligo, Kilkenny, Athlone, Limerick or Cork - or Backweston which also comes under the microscope when we consider how effectively we deliver services - the agenda is to close or dismantle these...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Michael Creed: The Deputy asked about the capital element of programme C which she indicated seemed to provide for a reduction. If one removes the big ticket item, namely, subhead C10, under the heading, Brexit resilience measures, one will see that €25 million was drawn down in 2018. It was accounted for in budget 2017 under the heading of the Brexit loan scheme. That product is coming to the...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Michael Creed: They include female rural entrepreneurs, social farming, agrifood tourism and food waste reduction. I was at the launch in Galway of a very interesting company involved in a food waste initiative, or a food cloud. These are the initiatives envisaged under CEDRA.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Michael Creed: It is dealt with in subhead E13.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Michael Creed: It is a little like the World Food Programme in that it is an accountancy issue. There was a late payment due from the European Commission in 2017. It arrived in 2018. Areas of natural constraint, ANC, payments are made in September and we usually receive the receipts from the European Commission in December, but, as I understand it, that will not happen in 2019. This has served to skew...
- Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Creed: The Government is conscious of the vital role played by the agrifood sector in sustaining the rural economy and rural communities across Ireland. There is no doubt that the agrifood sector faces considerable challenges arising from Brexit. The Government is doing everything it can, however, to ameliorate the potential impacts. In addition to the range of measures I have deployed over the...
- Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Creed: What did the Deputy say?
- Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Creed: We would be in right trouble if we were locked out of markets when we export 90%.
- Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Creed: Or less.
- Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Creed: It is available to small businesses.
- Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Creed: No, it is less than €50 million.
- Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Creed: The turnover could be €2 million or €200,000.