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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (2 Nov 2021)

Michael McNamara: 140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the provision of fibre broadband to a property (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52366/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 Nov 2021)

Michael McNamara: 909. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52401/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: You can get a vet but not a GP in rural Ireland. Like the Minister, I look forward to the plant at Moneypoint becoming a green energy hub. I hope hydrogen will be manufactured there using energy generated by harnessing the power of the Atlantic. In the meantime, it is slated for closure in 2025. The Minister suggested that decision might be revisited given the energy shortages. Will...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: I agree, but in the short term-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (21 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: It is regrettable that cattle coming from feedlots will benefit from the protected geographical indication, PGI, status applied for by the Minister, if his application is accepted. It will mean farmers who produce cattle in a more traditional way, that are never housed and are outdoors, perhaps in the Burren or wherever, during the winter, and are killed off the land must compete with huge...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (21 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: Is it done without concentrates?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Organic Farming (21 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: I, too, welcome the increase in funding but the problems in the market need to be tackled also. In livestock production, organic farming is not attractive. We know there is a monopoly among a couple of big players in the meat business. They offer a pittance more for organic beef compared to non-organic beef, such that it is not economically worthwhile producing organic beef. One can go to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (21 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: When the beef task force was introduced, I predicted it would be a talking shop. I accept I was wrong and it was not even a talking shop. How it could not meet during the Covid-19 pandemic using Skype, Zoom or Microsoft Teams like the rest of us is beyond me. I completely agree with Deputy Conway-Walsh about feedlots. This growth of cattle coming out of feedlots is very much at odds...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (21 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: 12. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average value of each basic payment scheme, BPS, entitlement per county in 2019 and 2020, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51679/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (21 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: I ask the Minister to provide the average value of each BPS entitlement per county in 2019 and 2020, respectively. I do not know if he will list every single county, but perhaps he might list a few counties at the top, a few counties at the middle and a few counties at the bottom. Of course, I have a particular interest in County Clare.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (21 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: It is interesting, but not surprising, that the lowest is in the west and the highest is in the south east. I wonder if that is a general trend. I appreciate that the Minister does not have the figures and as I said at the outset, I did not expect him to have them all. Is that a general trend? It is interesting that the greening is a percentage of the entitlement. While agriculture per...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (21 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: The Minister made a point about small and medium-sized farmers, which is a bit of a misnomer. Will the environmental measures be capped at a certain size of farm? Someone could have a large holding of marginal land while someone else might have a much smaller holding of more productive land. If it is capped, it will penalise the person with the marginal land. For example, the Burren is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (21 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: Garlic can be particularly difficult to grow, but I take the point about the necessity to replace imported horticulture with Irish horticulture. However, it will be difficult to do that when carrots are for sale at 49 cent per bag. There has to be some correlation between the price at which products are sold and the cost of production. I grew up in Clare and there was extensive market...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (21 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: If we are going to reduce carbon emissions, we will obviously have to measure them. One of the many failings of the carbon action plan was that it did not even set out how we were going to measure emissions but rather that the Government will decide how will do so, presumably by way of a statutory instrument. Will either the Minister or his colleague the Minister of State, Senator Hackett,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Natura 2000 (21 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: 63. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the areas of Natura 2000 lands claimed in each county in 2019 and 2020, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51678/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (21 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: 66. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the Beef Taskforce; if he has received the report from the Beef Taskforce; when the report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51714/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: 72. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average BPS payment per county in 2019 and 2020, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51680/21]

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (20 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: It is not agreed.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (20 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: We all knew this was going to happen. I do not see why it is being announced to the Dáil on a Wednesday evening. Why is the Order of Business constantly being changed at the behest of the Government? There is a Business Committee.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (20 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: Yes but I am saying that I do not agree and I wish to put it to a vote if possible.