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- Other Questions: Pesticide Use (4 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: I do not agree.
- Other Questions: Pesticide Use (4 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 12. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to support a ban on the use of herbicides and pesticides in ecological focus areas (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20867/17]
- Other Questions: Pesticide Use (4 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: I find I am in agreement with the Minister there. There is no point in incentivising overproduction. The definition of sustainable is "able to be maintained at a particular level without causing damage to the environment". In 2013 the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine made efforts to block a ban on pesticides within the EU, linked to the collapse in the bee population in...
- Other Questions: Pesticide Use (4 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: I thank the Minister for his reply. He is making Monsanto's argument there. He can do it any way he likes, but we are reneging on our environmental responsibilities. The scale and intensity of fertiliser, herbicide and pesticide use in the EU's arable farming sector has resulted in extensive biodiversity loss, water pollution and soil degradation in many parts of Europe. Under the...
- Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: I am looking forward to getting as much time as the Minister got.
- Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: I can hear both the Ceann Comhairle and the Minister, and I am looking forward to getting the same amount of time as the Minister got. Methane from cows and other animals is problematic. I do not want to demolish farming in Ireland. I, as much as anyone else here, have argued that we should be investing in sustainable industry in Ireland more than anything else. I come from a farming...
- Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: I know more about farming than one might think. We have a problem in the area. I disagree with serious expansion, and I do not agree with increasing the dairy herd by 50%, which will lead to an increase in the beef herd. We cannot have milk without calves. Forgetting about the environment for a moment, from an economic point of view we know for a fact that Britain will import more cheap...
- Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: I am not arguing about what the Brazilians do.
- Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: We are increasing meat production----
- Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: What about cereal?
- Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: Cereal is not as problematic as animal production.
- Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: That is not a bad idea.
- Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 7. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the environmental assessments that his Department carried out into the environmental impacts of Food Harvest 2020 and Food Wise 2025 (details supplied); his views on the plans' aims to increase the State's output of beef and milk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20868/17]
- Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: Very often when the Minister is talking about agriculture, he uses the phrase carbon neutrality and the word "sustainable". According to kildarestreet.com , he has used the word sustainable 328 times in the Dáil in the last year alone, surpassed only by the Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney. The Minister, Deputy Michael Creed, is in third place for the use of the phrase "carbon...
- Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: The Minister said there is a strong commitment in Food Wise 2025 to measure and monitor the sustainability credentials of the sector. He used the words "sustainable" and "carbon neutral", even though he never defined them with regard food production. He regularly uses the words "sustainable growth" but this is not defined either. A chapter of the national mitigation plan, entitled An...
- Inland Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: The most serious issue facing Inland Fisheries Ireland is not whether it has the explicit power to prosecute offences under the Fisheries Acts - it is the declining fish stocks in our rivers. It is all well and good to amend the legislation to beef up powers to prosecute, but what difference will it make when there are no fish left in our rivers to protect? As Deputy Pringle has pointed...
- Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (3 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 8. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to address chronic underfunding of child and adolescent mental health services; the further steps he will take to tackle CAMHS staff shortages which are affecting the delivery of the service across the country; his views on the fact that County Wexford, with 14 other counties, does not have an on-call mental health service for children;...
- Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (3 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: I can see Deputy Jack Chambers replacing Deputy Billy Kelleher soon as health spokesperson for Fianna Fáil. Child and adolescent mental health services outside the hours of nine-to-five Monday to Friday are non-existent in many parts of the country. If one has a referral accepted, nobody can lift a finger to help the child, unless the consultant psychologist assesses him or her....
- Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (3 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: The truth of the matter is that the service is not good enough in Wexford. I recently asked the HSE what services were available for children and adolescents who presented with suicidal ideation but who were not deemed by CAMHS to have a psychiatric disorder. The reply from the head of mental health services, Ms Liz Kinsella, stated individuals could access a health service on a 24-hour...
- Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (3 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: The self-harm intervention programme mentioned by the Minister of State is actually based in Waterford. It is one of the places we rang after 5 p.m. At 5.15 p.m. the telephone was not being answered. One of the parents who contacted me recently has a ten-year old boy who has been diagnosed with severe verbal and oral dyspraxia, a sensory process disorder and as suffering from high anxiety....