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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: I would like to put one final question. We are all uncertain about the package being leaked in the media at the minute. How much consultation had the IFA with the Department on this package?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: It is just every other thing that comes up here is all about consultation. It is the same in this instance. I thank the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: I want to go back to something the Chairman said earlier about how many farmers are locked into the contracts. If stabilisation measures for those dairy farmers were taken, would there have to be a level of parity for the dairy farmers who are not locked into these contracts, but who are also facing higher input costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: Yes. I was referring to measures being brought in to stabilise it for the dairy farmers who are being discussed here and who are locked into those contracts. Are there measures that can be brought in to level it out for farmers who are not in these contracts, but who are also facing the same higher input costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: We probably should get the banks in here. ICOS also supported a rainy day fund or stabilisation measures to address the problems that farmers have in this situation. It has also said that successive governments have failed to act, which is disappointing. Does the ICOS have any proposals on how the rainy day fund would work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: That is all.

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: In the midst of a cost-of-living crisis of fuel supply insecurity and price hikes, the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, wants to ban the sale of turf from September. Since that came out, it has been one long fiasco after another. After showing complete disregard for the 9% of rural households in this country who depend on turf to heat their homes, it quickly went to the Minister making...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: Climate action is vital and we all have our part to play. Considerable efforts must be made. However, everybody must be supported to help make those changes and the regressive carbon tax falls short in that regard. I thank the Rural Independent Group for giving us the time to discuss this issue. Is the carbon tax designed to take into account energy poverty? The answer is a simple...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: I welcome the guests. I asked for them to be brought before the committee as part of its agenda because I had seen the work they had done. It came in light of the frequent discovery of abandoned horses in County Tipperary. As the Chairman said, we have seen this in recent years and there was one particular location that kept coming up, although we have seen instances of neglect in various...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: The Garda would be the first point of contact.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: What is our guests' experience of the availability of the Department, the council and the Garda when they contact those organisations? Do they come quickly or is it a long, drawn-out process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: Is there a set routine among the organisations? Is all the information fed up a line that includes the Garda, the local authority and the Department? Is it a more haphazard situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: Is there a set routine that is followed to track all the information from the time a report comes into our guests' organisation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: I will move on to public awareness and consultations with various horse-owning sectors. It is important that everyone is singing from the one hymn sheet. Are the programmes in existence effective in highlighting the abuse of animals? What more could be done to make the public, or even the Garda, more aware? Mr. Cullen spoke about the training new recruits are undertaking in Templemore....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: What changes would our guests like to see? What would they recommend with respect to the Animal Welfare Act 2013? What suggestions have they that we could bring from this committee and to a Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: I thank our guests and wish them the best of luck, going forward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: I welcome the guests. It may just be me but I think the Department is a little dismissive of the development of the hemp industry. It has called it a niche crop and it seems to me there is no real intention of moving away from that position. It also said there was little evidence in the consultation showing how it could provide a meaningful income all along the supply chain. That seems...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: Is the Department giving adequate attention to the sector? The Department seems very dismissive. Everybody else seems to think there could be huge potential in the growing of hemp but the Department described it as niche.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: As Senator Daly has said, if there is not a drive from the Department to change this, it appears dismissive of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. It is leaving it with the Department of Health and plodding along with what has happened over the past couple of years. Unless there is a drive from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine itself to change this, there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: Is hemp controlled by the departments of health in other countries or is it controlled by their departments of agriculture? It comes under the Department of Health here but is it the same in different countries across Europe?