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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The debate we had was not about the total amount of information that the Department gives to Europe or the amount of information that it gives in public documentation. It is the process of accountability to this Oireachtas for the money that is given by the Oireachtas to Ministers to spend. It is unreasonable for the Department to expect Deputies and Senators to get all of this information...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Nobody knows who is going to be where next April. We need, as an Oireachtas, more accountability to the taxpayers of Ireland, and this meeting is the only place where such analysis takes place. Not to the EU, not to Bord Bia, but here in this room.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is not in the Revised Estimates.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Revised Estimates used to give all the subheads as a matter of course. When we introduced performance indicators, suddenly and miraculously, it disappeared out of the Revised Estimates. It is fine to say it is here and there but the Minister will know from being a backbencher previously what is involved in terms of resources to start going to this and that website and so on. I believe...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What do you mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I have an awful lot of questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I hate when someone comes into such a crucial meeting, so late in the day, and we are suddenly told we have three quarters of an hour to discuss a budget.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We could, maybe-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We could suggest that we debate it for first three quarters of an hour today and come back and finish it. Is there any time limit on this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Does it have to be done by a certain date?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I know but that is allowed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We would have been available in June if the Minister came in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: My first question is as follows. The Minister said the value of Ireland's food and drink exports grew by 4% during 2014 and was €3.2 billion higher than 2009. Perhaps he would develop on that theme. Was that caused by volume or price increases? The second issue is germane to this debate. What policy decisions, particularly those in regard to expenditure, had most effect in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Presumably when the Minister was drawing up that programme and getting approval from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform he had to give a detailed breakdown of what is involved in that. Presumably there is quite an amount of detail. For example, the names of piers have been mentioned down to that kind of micro detail. Can the Minister give us a copy of the micro detail since...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister send on that information rather than go into detail on it now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: They were my three questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I did not say value. We know that if the Minister is saying it is €3.2 billion, that is money. I want to know what created the extra money, was it extra volume or increased prices?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Increased prices include, of course, currency exchanges over which we have no control. The Minister has not got the data there. He should come back with that analysis. Furthermore-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The question was which elements in the €1 billion the Minister is spending are the ones that created-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is due to prices.