Results 21-40 of 263 for speaker:Natasha Newsome Drennan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: The animals are obviously in all winter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I would say they were furious but go on anyway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: On that, I see Mr. Gildea's farm is called "Riverview", so I presume there is a river close by. Mr. Gildea said his cattle were housed at night. Have they always been housed during the night? Is that a new change?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Regarding the impact on water, there was a question earlier on water, but I think that related to the fluid that was coming out of it. I am asking about the water of the rivers close by. Is there any data to say this is better or worse? Is it obviously better?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: No bother.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Yes, you would imagine that it would be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Okay. I thank the witnesses.

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (14 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I commend my colleagues on their work on this motion. Most importantly, I pay tribute to the various disability advocacy groups for their invaluable assistance. I worked as a carer for people with disabilities for 18 years in south Kilkenny. The most consistent thing I encountered over those years was that people with a disability want to live as independently as possible. The harsh...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (14 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 121. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the €20 million announced in funding for ACRES will result in additional farmers entering into the scheme; if not, if it will result in increased grants for farmers already in the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55019/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tillage Sector (14 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 149. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures that will be introduced in 2025 to support the tillage farming sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55018/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The targets for mammograms in 2023 and 2024 were missed by nearly 80,000. On KCLR recently, I listened to so many women across Carlow and Kilkenny telling their stories. One woman told of her experience after being referred for a scan by her GP because of a lump on her breast. She said months went by without a single word from the hospital. She...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: That would be too much work for them.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: For years, the struggles faced by family carers have been raised here in the Dáil and in communities across Ireland. Family Carers Ireland has told us clearly that carers' situation needs to be treated like a house on fire. Budget 2026 was the Government's chance to take on that fire. Instead, this Government has arrived with little more than a water pistol. Last week in the...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: But not next year. Not when they need it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Not on the people working.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I thank everybody for coming. It was great to meet Brian and Helen this morning. We visited Albert and David's farm in Malahide. For us as suckler farmers, it was not our typical farm. The thing with social farming is that you do not have to change anything. It does not have to be a pet farm for all the world. It can be anything. I said to my husband a couple of years ago that he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Go on Deputy, you should know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: The Deputy should know why the money is being provided.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I will heckle all I want when it comes to farming. The Deputy can try to stop me. There is obviously a disconnect between the witnesses and the Department, and between them and Teagasc. There is €26 million a year going for the same advice the witnesses are basically providing. What are they spending that on? Those are questions that need to be answered. There is also the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Absolutely.