Results 2,421-2,440 of 5,615 for speaker:Andrew Doyle
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: While I will ask the Minister to respond, I also wish to ask a question myself. As matter of interest, under food aid donations I presume a specific additional sum of €1 million has been allocated somewhere, because the amount has been consistent since 2011.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: Yes.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: Okay. I do not believe anyone has an issue with that.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: Has the Deputy concluded?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: Deputy Ferris should hold on for a moment. We are on administration. The issue comes up for discussion under programme D.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: It is okay if Deputy Ferris wants to conclude it now, but I wish to make one point and then I will allow him back in.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: Just a moment.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: I thank Deputy Penrose very much. He got to start. He got to make an opening statement.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: Absolutely.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: Excuse me, but I do not operate on the basis of grace and favour. I gave everyone an opportunity. Deputy Penrose got to speak immediately after Deputy Pringle.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: Yes, and Deputy Penrose did so and he got a response. On the cost of administration, resources are in place to ensure that if on-farm inspections are required, the appeals process will be funded and adequately resourced. That is fair enough. Deputy Ferris should be brief. I will not come back to the matter under programme D.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: Deputy Ferris, the discussion relates to programme D.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: I am accused of allowing grace and favour to people who are late.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: I understand that. I convened the meeting for 1 o’clock with everyone’s agreement last week but only Deputy Pringle showed up on time.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: It was agreed that 1 o’clock suited everybody. I tried to go through the running order at 1 o’clock and we reconvened at 2 o'clock in order to give ourselves time. Some people were here but others were not. We were talking about administration and the overall cost of running all programmes across the Department. We had clarification earlier on mapping in response to a...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: Deputy Penrose is raising an individual case.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: I know at first hand exactly the way the system works because I have been affected by it.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: I wish to make one point of clarification. In the new CAP there will be areas of ecological focus. One will have a gross area of land, a net farmed area and parts of the excluded area in between would qualify for ecological focus.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: Hedgerows that are marked off a map today that do not qualify in the gross area might qualify in time. The issue is not really for discussion at today’s meeting but it could form part of the general review of maps. Unfortunately, it will become a third figure.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Andrew Doyle: I will see how matters progress. We have given an hour and ten minutes to this 20-minute slot. When we get to programme D we will see how we are fixed. I will move on to programme A.