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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issues in the Horse Racing Industry: Discussion (8 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: No. Senator Mullen is interrupting the witness.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issues in the Horse Racing Industry: Discussion (8 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Senator Mullen is interrupting the witness. Let the witness finish.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issues in the Horse Racing Industry: Discussion (8 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Senator Mullen, just in case there is a misunderstanding I am chairing the meeting. The Department will come before us next Tuesday and we can ask questions on its actions in regard to that. That is a question more appropriate for the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issues in the Horse Racing Industry: Discussion (8 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: When the Department is before the committee next Tuesday it will have questions to answer because the regulations on feed are under its portfolio.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issues in the Horse Racing Industry: Discussion (8 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: There have been very intensive discussions and this is obviously a very important issue. I know Deputy Flaherty is waiting to get in but we are over time. Three or four other Deputies indicated they have more questions to ask. Deputy Browne had to leave to attend another committee. He represents the same part of the country that I represent and I know he is extremely interested in this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issues in the Horse Racing Industry: Discussion (8 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: That is correct. If we were in non-Covid times, we would continue for another hour or two but I am under strict orders from the Ceann Comhairle to conclude the meeting within two hours. The committee is due to meet that Tuesday anyway, so I suggest that we have a second session to finish our discussions on this issue. The committee is now adjourned until 3.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 13 July, when...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 174. To ask the Minister for Health if persons travelling into the country from states on the mandatory hotel quarantine list will be provided with an exemption to mandatory hotel quarantine in cases in which they are fully vaccinated with a World Health Organisation approved vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30512/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 180. To ask the Minister for Health if, under new guidelines, communions and confirmations will go ahead, particularly in smaller school with groups of 25; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30590/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (6 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) can amend their higher education access route, HEAR, application to include their 2019 income rather than the 2020 income that was submitted with the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36279/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (6 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 566. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to conduct a needs analysis from the forest industry including forest owners for a frost reconstitution scheme following damage to young plantations by this uninsurable event; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35819/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (6 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 567. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the afforestation grant and premium is not payable on areas of natural constraints; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35820/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (6 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 606. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the thorough examinations of each individual animal are conducted by tissue velocity imaging given scans are not accepted as proof of pregnancy by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36401/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Deputy Carthy is attending a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts and will join this meeting at 10 a.m. Before we begin, I remind members that, in the context of the current Covid-19 restrictions, only the Chairman and staff are present in the committee room. All members must join remotely from elsewhere in the parliamentary precincts. The secretariat can issue invitations to join...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: There are a number of very pertinent questions there. Ms Kavanagh is indicating.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Those were comprehensive answers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Mr. O'Rourke and I call Deputy Michael Collins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I will come back to the witnesses in a moment and they can answer them then. I call Deputy Michael Collins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I note Mr. Dunne is waiting to come in. Deputy Fitzmaurice asked a few specific questions that were not answered. I ask Mr. Dunne to respond to Deputy Fitzmaurice's questions as well as the questions posed by Deputy Collins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Mr. Dunne for his passionate answers. He has outlined the significant difficulties that are coming down the tracks. We were on Bord Bia when the decision on Bloom was made, and that was a success story for the horticulture industry. I understand his point that its concept would be undermined and made a mockery of if it could not be supported by Irish industries.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: A number of members have indicated they wish to speak. I call Senator Lombard.