Results 1,741-1,760 of 4,507 for speaker:Pat Deering
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)
Pat Deering: I am not here to defend anybody but as a result of a lot of lobbying in the past year and a half, we ensured that the TAMS scheme included tillage farmers. That is welcome and I hope it will be rolled out in the new year. We also lobbied to ensure that tillage farmers would be included in the loan scheme, which was not the case initially. I hear the views of different members, and of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)
Pat Deering: Yes. The money for tillage farmers comes from the matching funding put in by the Government. Europe was not providing any money for the tillage sector but the Government put in €14 million in matching funding.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)
Pat Deering: A few specific questions have been put.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)
Pat Deering: Exactly what other information will be in the survey, as regards the exact costs at the moment and where the big outstanding expenses are? Are there outstanding payments to the merchants, the contractors or whoever else, or have they been paid? Where are the big stumbling blocks? Will that be a part of the survey or is it actually just about the amount of land involved and how much of it...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)
Pat Deering: Okay. Mr. O'Regan has a couple of questions to answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)
Pat Deering: I will now ask Mr. Dunne and Mr. Healy to wrap up this section.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)
Pat Deering: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)
Pat Deering: Does that require consent from Europe?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)
Pat Deering: I thank the IFA, Mr. Healy and his delegation, for attending the meeting and highlighting the issue. As can be seen, there is consensus. What we need to do as a committee is issue a report in the next couple of days. I hope the delegation members can feed into it any information they have from the survey as soon as they have it because that is very important. There are different figures,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)
Pat Deering: This committee will not be found wanting. We have not been found wanting before and we will do whatever we can, regardless of sector. I can assure the delegation of that. I thank the witnesses for attending the committee. I thank the members for their patience. We have been here since 3 o'clock on a number of matters, it has been a long day and I thank them for their forbearance and patience.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2016) Pat Deering: I remind members and those in the Public Gallery to make sure their mobile phones are completely switched off. This meeting has been convened to consider a Supplementary Estimate relating to Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine, which was referred by the Dáil to the committee on 22 November 2016 with an instruction to report back to the Dáil no later than 8 December 2016....
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2016) Pat Deering: We are dealing specifically with the matters raised in the Minister's address and the subheads before us.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2016) Pat Deering: Will the Minister outline exactly what the 3% reduction in the research and training fund involves? I would have thought that extra funding would be required for research and training in light of Brexit and at a time when we are seeking to access more and more markets and when increasing numbers of students want to enter third-level education? Does the reduction relate to a different fund...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2016) Pat Deering: What does the 3% reduction in the research and training fund entail?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2016) Pat Deering: Is it a financial cut down or reduction?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2016) Pat Deering: Deputies Cahill and McConalogue can ask supplementary questions.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2016) Pat Deering: The Minister has outlined that the fund will be allocated proportionately to different sectors. Will specific amounts be ringfenced for the tillage, dairy and beef sectors?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2016) Pat Deering: That money cannot go anywhere other than the tillage sector.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2016) Pat Deering: Okay.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2016) Pat Deering: I ask Deputy Charlie McConalogue to be brief because we need to wrap up.