Results 181-200 of 2,691 for speaker:Tim Lombard
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: Is it for all the product that came out of the abattoir?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: How many carcasses went through that slaughter plant that the Department is concerned about?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: My problem here is we have no idea of how much is potentially going to be in the food chain that could be of a product that is not suitable for human consumption.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: Could Dr. Hobson safely say, or could she speculate, that every animal that went through that abattoir is under investigation in some way or another?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: Regarding the issue of the investigation teams, the Department mentions there are two investigation teams - one from the Garda Síochána and one internal in the unit itself. I am very much aware of how the unit operates. Regarding the governance of the Department and how the Department looked at this, I hope I am not hearing that we are having the Department special unit look at...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: We have a special unit, which I am aware works within the Department. I know how they operate. They are looking at the abattoir and how it works.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: Given the culture within the Department itself and how we ended up in this situation, maybe there are structural changes involved. Maybe changes in legislation are required. Maybe there is the issue of having a database, something similar to what is there on the bovine side that provides traceability all the way through. All those issues need to be on the table at this stage. Those issues...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: If we can do it for the bovine industry, which we have done competently, particularly from 1996 onwards, and the amount of work that has been done on traceability all the way through has made sure we are the world leader, I am lost for words to think why we do not have the same scenario. If I, as a farmer myself, had an animal on the farm that was not registered, I would be breaking every...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: What I cannot get over here is the traceability element. I am sorry, I will return to Senator Victor Boyhan next. With bovine operations, there is traceability all the way through so that we know where the animal lives, who owns it, where it is going and how it is run. If that animal is destroyed or died, we know where the knackery is. We know everything about it. Therefore, there is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: We might come back to that. I call Senator Victor Boyhan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: Just following on from the Senator's point, that is the issue. That cannot be done in the bovine herd. A calf cannot fall off the radar-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: With the deepest of respect, a system has been in place for the bovine herd since 1996 that shows end of life. End of life is the most important part of any system. We need a system that traces the horse all the way through to end of life. If we do not have an end-of-life element to it, we will have, as Mr. Sheahan said, unfortunate activity that tries to make money off the back of horses...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: Then it falls under the Department to make sure it is appropriately run.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: That is a damning indictment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: We will make sure the witnesses get appropriate time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: I apologise to witnesses for the delay. It was unfortunate. Proceedings in the Dáil have had an impact on our proceedings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: This is slightly outside the remit here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: Deputy Fitzmaurice is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: Could the Deputy refrain from mentioning names?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: That is a political issue regarding-----