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- Seanad: Budget 2024 (Finance): Statements (10 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: It is great to be here and to acknowledge the budget that has happened this afternoon. I want to comment in particular on agriculture and I note that Sinn Féin's wonderful contribution to this House never mentioned agriculture. Sinn Féin did not even acknowledge that farmers exist.I acknowledge what is after happening today on the agricultural side. The roll-over of the reliefs...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Staff (11 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: The Minister of State is welcome. I raise the issue of podiatry care. It is a significant issue nationally and is a major issue in my part of the world down in west Cork. The level of podiatry care that is being provided by the HSE at the moment is very limited. We have had patients come to my office in the past number of years who have been waiting 18 or 19 months for appointments. We...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Staff (11 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: I thank the Minister of State for the update. I think we are probably where we were last year. There is no major change. More than 1,100 people are on a waiting list. Unfortunately, 329 adults have been waiting for more than 12 months. It is probably that cohort who have been talking to me. That is a really significant figure. Something needs to be done about the CHO 4 area regarding...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: I acknowledge and welcome this afternoon's presentation on the important issue of the challenges facing the fruit and vegetables industry in Ireland and particularly the issue of food waste, an issue I have been chasing for a serious period of time. I will start with Professor Hennessy. I acknowledge her contribution to the Food Vision 2030 strategy. On where we are as a society with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: Regarding the European dimension and what I read about in the papers about the Commission moving towards 2030 targets, one or both professors might give me an update on where they believe those proposals are at the moment. Are they aware of them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: By 2030. Okay. I thank the witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: What happens to the wonky vegetables?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: My apologies. I missed the opening statement as there was a vote in the Seanad. I want to ask about the labour issue and how Keelings is dealing with that. It is a very significant issue in the industry at the moment. We heard in a previous contribution that 1,000 work permits were granted several years ago but that cohort of work permits is now fully taken up, according to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: I welcome the Macra na Feirme representatives and compliment them on their very lengthy and well put together presentation. Food waste will probably be one of the most significant issues we will deal with as a nation in future. In many ways, we have not grasped that nettle yet. How we will deal with it will be a huge issue over the next decade. There will be targets that will probably...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: The Chair is very strict on time, so I wish to ask another question before the time goes. I refer to wonky fruit, in other words, the fruit that might not pass the grade. What is Dr. Hanrahan's view on wonky fruit and where it fits into the food chain?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: Is enough being done on the wonky fruit proposal?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: Deputy Mythen will be our final member to contribute. I thank him for his patience.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: On my own behalf, I thank the witnesses from Macra na Feirme for attending and making an interesting contribution to the debate. I also thank the Senators and Deputies for making a significant contribution. On behalf of the committee, I thank all of the witnesses who contributed. The next public meeting of the committee will take place on Wednesday, 18 October and the agenda will be the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: I wish to ask about FoodCloud.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (18 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: The Minister of State is more than welcome. My Commencement matter calls on the Minister for Health to provide an assurance that the HSE will give permission to continue to approve and reimburse new medicines from next January onwards. This is a very significant issue. Over the past three years €100 million was provided for new medicines and such expenditure has been greatly needed...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (18 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: Generic medicines are a real issue in a certain setting. However, in regard to the new medicines, that cutting-edge technology, I refer back towards 2007 when Interferon cost €5,000 a shot for Ger, at the time. He got it every month for 12 months. That was the kind of expenditure required to actually give Ger the life he had. I argue this is not about generic medicines. This is...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: The past few days have been somewhat traumatic in my part of the world. We have seen nearly 50 mm of rainfall. The storm which has hit the south-west coast is absolutely frightening. Looking at social media this morning, it strikes me that the floods in some parts of Cork and Kerry are something we have not seen since 2009. It seems that 50 mm of rain will fall in a 26-hour or 27-hour...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: We have received several emails about this issue in the past few days. It does not appear to be looked upon by the bus service itself. How are we going to ensure vaping is banned on school buses? The children who have emailed me this morning will not get a school bus until we stop the actual-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: I think it was two, Chair.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: How did I get-----