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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Animal Health and Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (15 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: We have had a very good interaction on this legislation this morning. As I have said, we were better prepared for the second hour of the meeting after the first hour. It is unique legislation. On behalf of the committee, I thank the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, and his officials, Mr. Greally and Mr. Kinsella, for briefing us this morning. They have been very open in their answers to our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Animal Health and Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (15 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Animal Health and Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (15 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: This may not be the kind of question Mr. Greally expected but we would appreciate it if he would be able to answer Deputy Fitzmaurice's question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Animal Health and Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (15 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: We have resumed in public session. I should have said at the beginning of the meeting that apologies were received from Deputy Paul Kehoe. This session is on pre-legislative scrutiny of the animal health and welfare (amendment) Bill 2021. I welcome the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Charlie McConalogue. I also welcome Mr. Gerry Greally, senior inspector in livestock...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Animal Health and Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (15 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Mr. Greally. Deputy Fitzmaurice has raised a very pertinent question. We may come back to the matter in the next session. It is a problem. Any species that is not native which is let out into a given area causes serious problems. Mink are most definitely doing that. It has damaged the balance of wildlife in certain areas. It is a serious predator. I thank Mr. Greally for his...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I welcome these amendments from the Seanad. They will bring some fairness to this climate action Bill. I want to support this in terms of peat. With regard to the madness there, we have had discussions at the Oireachtas committee I chair on peat extraction in this country. It makes absolutely no sense that the horticulture and the nursery sectors are not able to acquire locally harvested...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: A report on water quality was issued today. It is clear that municipal authorities have a lot of money to spend on their infrastructure. I want to talk about organic waste from agriculture, especially from intensive farms. There is an awful lot of modern technology out there with modern methods to deal with this waste. I would be very critical of various Departments that have not embraced...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (14 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 416. To ask the Minister for Health if additional supports will be provided for early intervention services for children with a disability in north County Tipperary in the HSE mid-west region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31485/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (14 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 417. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide a temporary replacement for a speech and language therapist who is currently on maternity leave and who works in early intervention services for children with a disability in Nenagh, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31486/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (14 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 418. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is acceptable that parents of children born with disabilities are being advised to remain in the care of hospital services often in Dublin for as long as possible rather than changing to local early intervention services in Nenagh, County Tipperary due to short staffing in early intervention services in Nenagh; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (14 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 419. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether there are adequate staffing levels in early intervention services in Nenagh, County Tipperary for children with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31488/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (14 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 420. To ask the Minister for Health if he will to appoint a person to oversee all early intervention services that are supposed to be made available to children with disabilities in the north County Tipperary area of the mid-west region in order that services are co-ordinated appropriately and parents receive proper communications; if so, if a person will be appointed to the role who has an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (14 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 421. To ask the Minister for Health if there is adequate funding of early intervention services for children with disabilities in north County Tipperary considering some physiotherapists are operating clients lists of up to 500 children locally and many children cannot access the services they desperately need at an early age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31490/21]