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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Before we begin, I remind members, guests and persons in the Public Gallery to turn off their mobile phones. The purpose of the first session of today’s meeting is to examine equine welfare, while the second session will focus on the development of the hemp sector in Ireland. The committee will hear from representatives of My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue on equine welfare in the first...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Ms Kenny and I compliment MLHR on the work it is doing. I take issue with the paragraph on the second page of the submission. Maybe it was not intentional to send this message but it states: "The horses of Ireland are being starved, neglected, beaten and dumped." The vast majority of horses in the country are extremely well looked after. I fully accept that we have an issue and we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: There was a report in the last number of months where we were insisting on traceability. Traceability and microchipping go together. One cannot have one without the other. When an inspector goes into a yard or wherever, there should be a register for the number of horses there and the owner has to be responsible for them. That has to happen if we are going to make improvements on horse...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: We will take questions from Deputy Flaherty before going back to the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I invite the witnesses to respond to the questions from Deputies Ring and Flaherty now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Deputies Carthy and Gould are next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I will allow Deputy Gould to make his point before we go.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I propose that Senator Daly take the Chair. We will get a response on the record to the Deputy's question. Is that okay?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: The purpose of the second session is to examine the development of the hemp sector. I welcome Mr. Michael Moloney and Mr. Cara Mac Aodháin, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. I also welcome Dr. Frank O'Mara, director, Mr. John Spink, head of programme, crop science department, and Mr. Barry Caslin, energy and rural development specialist, farm management and rural...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Mr. Moloney. Dr. O'Mara is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: We will have to suspend because there is a vote in the Dáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I would never say that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: We had a nice touch of frost this morning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: In the last week of April.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Is there uniformity across the EU in the way hemp will be treated?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: There are 18,000 ha involved in France. Are the French governed by the same regulations that apply to us regarding the way in which the crop can be harvested? Could the representatives from Teagasc state whether there is an economic model coming out of France indicating the return per hectare? By comparison with the overall tillage area in France, 18,000 ha is still small.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Surely when there is just one CAP, there should be uniformity of regulation across the EU regarding a tillage crop.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I find it hard to understand that, for an agricultural crop, there could be different standards across the EU. With milk, we have the same somatic cell counts and standards. The same standards have to be met for every product produced in the EU. I find it hard to understand how a crop like hemp can be subject to different standards in different EU countries.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I am not questioning what it contains; I am asking why there is no uniformity across the EU. We have the Single Market. The crop is governed under the CAP so I cannot understand how it is treated differently in different EU countries. I am not questioning the decision. Obviously, the Council of Ministers will make a decision on crops but I find it hard to understand how there cannot be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I thank the witnesses for participating in today's meeting. It is the second we have had on hemp. It is a crop that has potential if we can get all our-----