Results 3,121-3,140 of 10,790 for speaker:Matt Carthy

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: I want to see all-Ireland arrangements-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: -----so we can address the concerns that have been there. The Minister has not pointed to any discernible action that has been taken. I pointed to other scenarios because the Minister has a record on all of this. He still has not mentioned or addressed the issue of lime-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: -----I would have thought he would have taken the opportunity to announce the reversal of that-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: -----position, but he has not.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: These are related.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: I am suggesting we do not do a database until it can be operational on an all-Ireland basis, recognising the consequences for farmers in the Minister's constituency, as well as mine. They are the people I am here to represent, by the way.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: Deputy McConalogue is the Minister. It is up to him to address this.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: It has been outlined and pointed out to the Minister that there is an issue here and he has not done anything discernible to address it, as far as I am concerned.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: Has the Minister engaged?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: Who has the Minister met on this issue?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: He can meet the secretary general in the department in the North.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: I know better than anybody there-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: -----is no executive in Northern Ireland-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: -----and the reasons for that.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: I am quite frankly taken aback that the Minister does not see what the outworking of that will be. He mentioned this in respect of the review of the nitrates derogation. That is a review that nobody other than the Minister and his officials were even aware of when the nitrates action plan was signed off on. We have seen and heard over the past number of weeks about the difficulties this...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: I told the Minister what we are asking for and what we were expecting and he has not done any of that.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: -----that as a Minister from Donegal-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: -----what we would have been saying here-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: Our record on Committee Stage of legislation is that when the Minister shows a genuine effort to show he is serious about resolving an issue, we have accepted that in good faith. He has not in respect of this shown any.good faith in this regard and, therefore, for the third time, I will press the amendment.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: The Minister has now made the same speech four times. In part of that speech, he has said he does not believe it will disrupt cross-Border trade. That in itself suggests that he is delusional on this point. For the final time, I will the press the amendment.