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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Burger Content Investigations: Discussion (5 Feb 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: Has anything emerged from the investigation into Dalepak that might be different or would add to our sum of knowledge?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Burger Content Investigations: Discussion (5 Feb 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: I know that the figures for Rangeland Foods only came out yesterday and appreciate the Minister may be unable to indicate the position. However, the company has stated the meat it imports is only used for exports. Had Silvercrest been asked six months ago, it would have stated it used Irish beef only. I wonder how much store we can put in such statements. What will the Minister put in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Burger Content Investigations: Discussion (5 Feb 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: I also asked whether any of the officials from the Department who worked at Silvercrest had ever reported anything and, if so, whether those reports had been followed up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Burger Content Investigations: Discussion (5 Feb 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: Had they reported the presence of horsemeat?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Burger Content Investigations: Discussion (5 Feb 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: With respect, I asked why it was not made known informally to the Minister. I understand completely why it was not made public.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Burger Content Investigations: Discussion (5 Feb 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: What about the Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Burger Content Investigations: Discussion (5 Feb 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: That is correct and I understand that. However, the information has come to light that there is a Polish connection to this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Burger Content Investigations: Discussion (5 Feb 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: I appreciate that. What I was saying is that I am concerned at the status of the invitation. Will the Minister clarify whether he thinks they are about to come or whether it was only an invitation to come. Are they or are they not going to come? I appreciate the Minister must act according to protocol. I have a number of other questions, but I am aware other people may wish to come in....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Burger Content Investigations: Discussion (5 Feb 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: I ask forgiveness if I do not scratch my head about some of what has happened. I am, however, puzzled as to why the Department was not notified earlier than January. I appreciate the need to ensure the tests were correct before the Food Safety Authority could announce publicly that a problem had arisen but I do not know why the Department would not at least be informally notified about the...

Seanad: The Gathering Ireland 2013: Statements (31 Jan 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: It was done yesterday.

Seanad: The Gathering Ireland 2013: Statements (31 Jan 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: It is ahead of it. It will allow the Senator that for the moment. My great uncle Tom Cooper took the idea underpinning The Gathering to heart many moons ago. He published his own brochures, took the ferry to England, travelled all around northern England and handed them out. That was in the days when there was no e-mail and very little technology. He organised for a bus to collect...

Seanad: The Gathering Ireland 2013: Statements (31 Jan 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: They will have it in Carlingford. The Minister will have to go to it but there will be no poitín for him while he is working. I might take a parochial leaf out of the Minister's book - he will have been invited to every country in Ireland by the time he leaves the House - and point out that in Sligo we will climb Ben Bulben and Knocknarea, play music in the Coleman Centre, have sea...

Seanad: The Gathering Ireland 2013: Statements (31 Jan 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: Again?

Seanad: The Gathering Ireland 2013: Statements (31 Jan 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: I welcome the Minister. I also welcome this opportunity to discuss a positive, spirit-lifting initiative that we can all support. It does not matter whether we are shoemakers or interested in our ancestries. Unfortunately, I cannot raise a story about shoes to match the others. The beauty of The Gathering is that it will be built as we go and as people discover new interests and where they...

Seanad: The Gathering Ireland 2013: Statements (31 Jan 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: Senator Brennan is not half his age now.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: I ask the Leader to give an assurance that the debate with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Fitzgerald, which was unfortunately delayed yesterday, might be reinstated at a later stage. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, and in support of Senator Bacik's earlier comments, I am again requesting that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine attend the...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: Senator O'Keeffe also paid tribute to the late Detective Garda Donohoe. She called on the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to come to the House in light of the withdrawal by Tesco from its contract with Silvercrest Foods. I can call on him to come to the House. Senator Mullins raised the appalling news of mass execution in Aleppo, Syria, and the concerns about the break up of...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: Senator O'Keeffe also paid tribute to the late Detective Garda Donohoe. She called on the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to come to the House in light of the withdrawal by Tesco from its contract with Silvercrest Foods. I can call on him to come to the House. Senator Mullins raised the appalling news of mass execution in Aleppo, Syria, and the concerns about the break up of...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: I thank Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe for his bravery and professionalism during his life, for his great contribution to his community, for his love of football and his capacity to train young people, and for his significant contribution to the Garda Representative Association, GRA. He will be sadly missed. I offer my personal condolences and sympathies to his family, his children, his...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: In light of the continuing bad news about suicide I welcome in advance the working group on bullying set up by the Minister, Deputy Quinn, which I understand will report this afternoon. We have had debates on bullying already and I am sure the Minister would be pleased to come to the House after that working group has reported to allow us discuss its findings, the bigger picture in terms of...