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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Eradication Programme (5 Dec 2018)

Martin Kenny: 263. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of beef herds operating in a locked-down system for the purposes of TB eradication here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51201/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Eradication Programme (5 Dec 2018)

Martin Kenny: 264. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of feedlots operating here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51202/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheepmeat Sector (5 Dec 2018)

Martin Kenny: 265. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 247 of 14 November 2018, when a reply will issue. [51203/18]

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Martin Kenny: I will not get into too much detail. One of the things that strikes me regarding fodder is that we have been lucky. We have had a mild autumn and grass has been growing until recent weeks.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Martin Kenny: I do not suggest the Minister brought the good weather.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Martin Kenny: I would not blame the Minister for bad weather or credit him for good weather either. We all have to be realistic. The weather does what the weather does and we cannot control that. Having said that, every effort has to be made to mitigate against it, as far as possible. We have these discussions many times. The fodder crisis can be solved by most farmers on their own farms and that is...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Martin Kenny: There is certainly a decline in the profit farmers are making.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Martin Kenny: I am conscious - this issue arises regularly - that the Minister does not have a role in the market. The market dictates and demands. However, I would put it to him that a significant amount of taxpayers' money goes into marketing Irish food produce around the world through Bord Bia. When taxpayers' money is being used to market food, very often the people who make the most money from that...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Martin Kenny: It differs from that. I understand unfair trading practices. It is across the board here. It is not just about unfair trading practices.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Martin Kenny: I understand the Minister's dilemma. I am not suggesting he has to-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Martin Kenny: There is a difficulty with producer organisations. For many farmers, they do not go from start to finish. Where I am from in the west, farmers generally produce weanlings but they have neither the land nor the capacity to finish animals. They must sell their animals on to other farmers who can do that, so there is a break in the chain. One of the flaws that exists is that farmers cannot...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Martin Kenny: In sea fisheries-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Martin Kenny: On the Supplementary Estimate, one of the issues that comes up in regard to section D is the issuing of the licences. We had this out previously and I missed that meeting. I have had representations since, particularly in regard to finfish licences for the aquaculture sector where there is serious pressure. Some of them have been waiting between eight and ten years. Whatever additional...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care Provision (4 Dec 2018)

Martin Kenny: 308. To ask the Minister for Health the reason public health nurse services in Drumkeeran, County Leitrim, have been reduced; if this decision will be reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50148/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Flooding at Ballycar on the Galway-Limerick Railway and Investment in Heavy Rail: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Martin Kenny: I thank the group for its work on this. It is clear that it is going to be a combination of raising the rail line in some places and drainage, with some means of mitigating against the flooding in the other areas. Is there any idea of the costs involved or the breakdown as to where this will end up? One of the things that always jumps out at us in these things is if there is going to be a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Flooding at Ballycar on the Galway-Limerick Railway and Investment in Heavy Rail: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Martin Kenny: In the context of the making an application for funding, this might put the group in a difficult position.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Flooding at Ballycar on the Galway-Limerick Railway and Investment in Heavy Rail: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Martin Kenny: That would be good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Flooding at Ballycar on the Galway-Limerick Railway and Investment in Heavy Rail: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Martin Kenny: I thank Mr. Meade for his presentation and its detail on all the lines. I live in south Leitrim, and Dromod, Longford and Carrick-on-Shannon are the main areas from where people from my part of the world are heading toward Dublin. The trains, particularly at weekends, are packed. The congestion on those lines is a significant problem for many, particularly students going back to college...

Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Nov 2018)

Martin Kenny: I welcome that the Government will not oppose the Bill and will support it. I compliment Deputy Stanley on bringing the Bill forward. I am very conscious of the issues around microgeneration. For many years beside me in County Leitrim, Jimmy Dowds and Miriam Sheerin of offgrid.ie run a company called Eirbyte on the mountain at Aughnasheelin. They run courses for people teaching them how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Nov 2018)

Martin Kenny: I thank Mr. Dillon for his comprehensive report. I wish to focus on the categorisation of land within the scheme. Most of the farmers in the west and north-west would be working mountain-type land or land that is considered disadvantaged or more severely handicapped. The areas where land is of less severely handicapped are in the midlands and the south. Will the categorisation of land...