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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Strategic Infrastructure (5 Jul 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 164. To ask the Minister for Finance if the directors of an airline (details supplied) have given his Department an undertaking to use Ireland Strategic Investment Fund moneys only in the development of routes within and from the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36186/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Strategic Infrastructure (5 Jul 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 165. To ask the Minister for Finance if the loan given to an airline (details supplied) from the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund is to be rescinded if the airline fails on commitments made when receiving the loan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36188/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Strategic Infrastructure (5 Jul 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 187. To ask the Minister for Finance the Department that is in control of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund; if this fund is for regional development in the Republic of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36156/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (5 Jul 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 193. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works will ensure that for the winter of 2022, pumps will be on site, fuelled and manned by OPW staff at Lough Funshinagh, County Roscommon to save the houses that are in danger of flooding around Lough Funshinagh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35473/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (5 Jul 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 194. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans the Office of Public Works has in place to progress works at Lough Funshinagh, County Roscommon, in terms of appropriate assessment screening, planning permission and required legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35474/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: How can we have a minimum price for alcohol if we cannot have a minimum food production price?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Out of how many?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the position with the CEO? Will his or her appointment be approved by the Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the public appointments process allow people from the private sector to come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: This body cannot introduce minimum pricing or get involved in cost of production. What the Minister is saying is that if a bad price is given, the body can put out a list of the general run of things in Ireland, the rest of Europe and the rest of the world along with the cost of production. What is the value of this to a farmer? The body has no mandatory power to tell somebody that if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: So the body will not be involved in that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I apologise for interrupting. If the price of beef was €5 and a task force said it had carried out an analysis and believed there was room for the price to be €5.20, there is no legal mechanism or power to force a processor to accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Will it examine offal and all other parts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: From reading the proposed legislation, I note that there may be a fee in the context of those who wish to make complaints. What will be the amount involved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the office have the power to examine feedlots, farmers, VAT and different things involving the agricultural sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Regarding the new board, will it be voluntary? What are the budgets? Have figures been done up in this regard yet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There was a great deal of criticism that the task force did not meet often enough. Will there be a meeting every month or every two months? The general scheme is silent in this regard. Who will decide to break this silence?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Regarding the money, approximately €1 million, going to set up this body initially, will farmers be paying any of this cost in the form of a levy or anything like that? I ask this question because levies for many different things are now being applied to farmers. Will they be exempt from having to put their hands in their pockets in this regard? Things are tight enough for them....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the processors then pass that on to the farmers?