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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Practices: Discussion (21 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: If a veterinary practitioner operates a mixed veterinary practice and a corporate body buys it and decides it will focus on small animals, what does the council do for the 50 farmers in that area who suddenly have no vet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025 (Resumed): Bord Bia (21 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. Again, I commend Bord Bia on a lot of its work. It is important that Irish agriculture has a structure to market its produce worldwide, and to bring into focus the quality of Irish food and unique way in which much of Irish food is produced. One of the downfalls, which I am sure Bord Bia is well aware of, is that the primary producer struggles...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025 (Resumed): Bord Bia (21 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: I forgot to mention during my initial contribution that the Department has a scheme for groups of farmers to come together as producer groups to work to market their products and share their inputs, etc. Does Bord Bia work with any of these producer groups to find markets for them? Does it have a sector that focuses on that specifically? What potential does it see there? If a group of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: This is turning into a situation in which very many elderly and sick people feel they have been abandoned by Government, that they have paid taxes all their lives and that in their hour of need when they require a little help, it is not there. As everyone in this House knows and as the general public is aware, any cost-benefit analysis will indicate that home help services and home care...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: Then they must pay for the service themselves. Even if they are prepared to do so, the service is not available. The Taoiseach really needs to intervene.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: 353. To ask the Minister for Health further to Topical Issue No. 4 of 28 March 2019, the cost of the new diabetic day unit at Sligo University Hospital; the amount allocated from the capital budget; and the amount allocated in 2019 for this unit which is to be operational by 2020. [20761/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Democracy: Trócaire (14 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: I thank all of the witnesses for their interesting presentations. I was struck by a couple of comments, particularly the document entitled Transformation Pathways for Developing Country Agriculture, which seem to call for countries to step away from the conventional drive towards a more industrialised-type of agriculture and return to a low-intensity but higher nature type of farming. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Democracy: Trócaire (14 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: It almost relates to a point I was making initially on whether the approach should be trade or aid. How important is trade? Is it an answer? It seems from what is being said here that it is not in many cases. Farmers with only 1 ha or 2 ha of land are not going to be producing a massive amount of product to trade with anyone unless they are operating very collectively and co-operatively....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: We have been discussing the beef sector for the past couple of months. It is clearly in a lot of trouble and has a lot of problems. Anything that has the appearance of a solution or way forward or that could assist the sector will naturally be welcomed. The type of closed loop system that is proposed is one I know quite well. I used to work in the mushroom industry years ago. I had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: Are vaccinations included?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: I have been looking at the practices that would be required. The outline refers to fertiliser, feed and time of weaning. It is all the good husbandry and best practice we should see happening on the farm. I assume that advisers will be part of this package. Will the witnesses contract Teagasc or the like to talk to farmers or will they employ advisers to work with farmers to meet these...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (9 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: There are a number of matters I wish to raise. It is my view, and the view of others, in general, that the beef market is the victim of a market system that does not work for beef farmers. There is a prime product, namely, premium Irish beef, or the champagne of beef, that is sold as an average product, in the same way that bottom shelf wine is sold alongside champagne. That is the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (9 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: I appreciate that but the problem is that the new markets that have been opened, by and large, are niche, for small volumes of product. That has been the case until now. The vast majority of our beef is sold in Europe, while an awful lot of it is sold in Britain. That is well and good, and we understand that. The point, however, that cannot be made often enough or clearly enough is that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (9 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: If it is being abused, the Minister has an obligation to do something.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (9 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: Who licenses the processors?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (9 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: There are conditions for those licences.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (9 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: 2. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to address the crisis in the beef sector here in view of the fact that it is in danger of total collapse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20266/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (9 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. The issue in the Irish beef sector is the biggest topic that is concerning most farmers and indeed the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in recent months. We can see that around the country, where more and more farmers are considering leaving the beef sector. It is on the verge of collapse. It will need determined action now from the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Identification Schemes (9 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: 19. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which compulsory electronic tagging of lambs for slaughter improves traceability when livestock marts and meat processing factories are refusing to read tags electronically; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19997/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Administration (9 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: 32. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to implement full convergence of the basic payment scheme immediately or on a gradual basis over the lifetime of the next CAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19996/19]