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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Dec 2016)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Dec 2016)

Pat Deering: If we want to carry on this discussion, which I have no problem doing, we will have to return to private session because of the Standing Orders, which I do not make. The officials are supposed to respond for clarification purposes only unless we return to private session. I am only clarifying the situation. I have no problem with having this discussion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Dec 2016)

Pat Deering: We will return to the Minister. I am not trying to be awkward just to clarify.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Dec 2016)

Pat Deering: If the Minister could conclude we will allow five or ten minutes in private session where he could provide clarification.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Dec 2016)

Pat Deering: I thank the Minister and his officials for appearing before us and giving us a detailed presentation. I wish them every success next week in their negotiations. I hope there will be a satisfactory outcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)

Pat Deering: I remind members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery to make sure their mobile phones are completely turned off as they affect the broadcasting system. I welcome representatives of the IFA to this meeting to discuss the recent bad weather and its effect on the grain harvest this year: Mr. Joe Healy, president; Mr. Liam Dunne, grain chairman; Mr. David O'Brien from IFA Cork; Mr. John...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)

Pat Deering: I thank Mr. Healy for his opening statement. The first four questioners will contribute in the following order: Deputy McConalogue, Senator Lombard, Deputy Martin Kenny and Deputy Penrose.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)

Pat Deering: Before I return to Mr. Healy, I wish to ask some questions. The IFA is undertaking a survey of the number of farmers involved. Is there a rough breakdown of those who own the land, those who rent the land and that type of information? There are a number of different issues. There is a short-term issue with those who have been affected by the bad weather. I believe there are also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)

Pat Deering: As Deputy Penrose outlined, we had a fairly robust engagement at a previous meeting with the Minister, and some of the current delegation may have been present in the Gallery for that meeting. What we can do is probably limited enough. We can make recommendations and we can support the growers but, as was said earlier, tea and sympathy is not going to get them money on the table tomorrow...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)

Pat Deering: I thank Mr. Regan for highlighting the issues. I want to include more members if possible. I call Deputies Cahill, Pringle, Michael Collins, Ned O'Keeffe and Martin Ferris, in that order.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)

Pat Deering: The Deputy made a lot of points about the number of farmers involved and in Mr. Conway's review 200 farmers came back with results. Has the IFA put a timescale on where that is going? When does it expect to have final details? As Deputy O'Keeffe said, until we have a final picture it will be hard to see where we are going.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)

Pat Deering: Can Mr. Healy pass the information on to us? We could then forward it on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)

Pat Deering: I am not here to defend anybody but as a result of a lot of lobbying in the past year and a half, we ensured that the TAMS scheme included tillage farmers. That is welcome and I hope it will be rolled out in the new year. We also lobbied to ensure that tillage farmers would be included in the loan scheme, which was not the case initially. I hear the views of different members, and of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)

Pat Deering: Yes. The money for tillage farmers comes from the matching funding put in by the Government. Europe was not providing any money for the tillage sector but the Government put in €14 million in matching funding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)

Pat Deering: A few specific questions have been put.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)

Pat Deering: Exactly what other information will be in the survey, as regards the exact costs at the moment and where the big outstanding expenses are? Are there outstanding payments to the merchants, the contractors or whoever else, or have they been paid? Where are the big stumbling blocks? Will that be a part of the survey or is it actually just about the amount of land involved and how much of it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)

Pat Deering: Okay. Mr. O'Regan has a couple of questions to answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)

Pat Deering: I will now ask Mr. Dunne and Mr. Healy to wrap up this section.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)

Pat Deering: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)

Pat Deering: Does that require consent from Europe?