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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Andrew Doyle: We are here to hear from the officials of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, not each other.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Andrew Doyle: To be fair, beet farmers were not paid a different amount from those producing any other arable crop such as barley.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Andrew Doyle: The matter has been clarified.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Nov 2012)

Andrew Doyle: There are seven EU proposals for consideration today. The first is COM (2012) 371, a proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and the Council establishing specific conditions for fishing for deep sea stocks in the north-east Atlantic and provisions for fishing in international waters of the north-east Atlantic and repealing Regulation No. 2347/2002/EC. It is proposed that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Andrew Doyle: I welcome from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Mr. Tom Moran, Secretary General; Ms Bríd Cannon, head of EU and international trade division; Mr. Paul Savage, assistant principal; and Ms Ann Derwin, chief economist. Mr. Cecil Beamish, assistant secretary, and Ms Josephine Kelly, head of seafood policy division, are in the Visitors Gallery and shall join us later. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Expenditure Allocation 2013: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Oct 2012)

Andrew Doyle: We have a job to do. That is another argument.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Expenditure Allocation 2013: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Oct 2012)

Andrew Doyle: When the Senator looks at the figure, he must suggest alternatives. I hope everybody appreciates this has been a finding-our-feet exercise. I welcome members' attempts to engage constructively and I accept there will be political differences, but there are big ticket numbers. Senator Ó Domhnaill highlighted one allocation and the DAS is another. There are also smaller allocations....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Expenditure Allocation 2013: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Oct 2012)

Andrew Doyle: With the benefit of the information provided for this meeting and an examination of the programmes, we can meet before we meet the Minister again to identify the relevant areas. If the committee is of the opinion that we should continue with the suckler cow welfare scheme while accepting there is an AEOS with a €15 million allocation, we have tangible figures that we can work with....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Expenditure Allocation 2013: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Oct 2012)

Andrew Doyle: We should have a private meeting first on foot of the information. I again thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Expenditure Allocation 2013: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Oct 2012)

Andrew Doyle: That is more or less what I was suggesting. We will try to accommodate the Minister's diary to have another meeting. I ask members to stay back for five minutes when the Minister withdraws. I thank the Minister and his officials.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Expenditure Allocation 2013: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Oct 2012)

Andrew Doyle: In regard to the allocation, which was €220 million, is now approximately €205 million and will be €190 million, is it possible to indicate how it is broken down into the three categories?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Expenditure Allocation 2013: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Oct 2012)

Andrew Doyle: Can the Minister also indicate the average payment for each area? That is what we need.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Expenditure Allocation 2013: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Oct 2012)

Andrew Doyle: Am I correct to say that the maximum payment is the same regardless of designation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Expenditure Allocation 2013: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Oct 2012)

Andrew Doyle: I am asking about the maximum payment. Is it €3,400 regardless of category?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Expenditure Allocation 2013: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Oct 2012)

Andrew Doyle: It would be useful to the committee to get a breakdown of the total figure in each category and the average payments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Expenditure Allocation 2013: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Oct 2012)

Andrew Doyle: There are several big ticket figures in the allocation. Can some of this money be reallocated? Even if it was not a lot it would be helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Expenditure Allocation 2013: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Oct 2012)

Andrew Doyle: If the committee has access to these figures we would have something with which to work. I ask the Minister to forgive us if we are doing a lot of trawling at present because, while he has given us a clear indication on the €48 million, we did not have the relevant details prior to the meeting. The discussion may have been somewhat laborious but it was necessary to go into this level...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Expenditure Allocation 2013: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Oct 2012)

Andrew Doyle: Going back to the figure of €114 million, does the AEOS have to be added on to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Expenditure Allocation 2013: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Oct 2012)

Andrew Doyle: Would any provision for a suckler cow welfare scheme, say for €12 million, have to be added on to that?