Results 541-560 of 5,615 for speaker:Andrew Doyle

Topical Issue Debate: Beef Industry (2 Nov 2016)

Andrew Doyle: I appreciate the Deputy's commitment to this industry and I fully agree with some of the opinions and concerns he has outlined. I cannot answer his question about the budget for live exports but I can try to find that out. I do not know how it breaks down. The trade mission to Morocco and Algeria, which will be led by the Minister, people from the Department and Bord Bia, will be...

Topical Issue Debate: Beef Industry (2 Nov 2016)

Andrew Doyle: I thank the Deputy. I will take him through why this happened in the way it happened. As a primary beef producer, I am acutely aware of the importance of competition in all sectors, including the meat processing sector, in ensuring an economic return to primary producers. There is a well-established regulatory process involved in the assessment of takeovers to ensure that consumers,...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Agricultural Colleges Courses (25 Oct 2016)

Andrew Doyle: I thank Senator Gallagher for raising this matter. On my own behalf and on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Creed, I wish to thank Teagasc education staff for their hard work and dedication in managing the unprecedented demand for the adult green certificate programme, which is delivered on a part-time and distance education basis at Teagasc agricultural colleges and at its local and regional...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Agricultural Colleges Courses (25 Oct 2016)

Andrew Doyle: I have to go, but I am a graduate of the farm apprentice scheme. I did my first year exams in Ballyhaise. I appreciate the value of it and I will be there launching a timber harvesting simulator course. I understand the need to get as many people in as quickly as possible. I am sorry I have to go.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Agricultural Colleges Courses (25 Oct 2016)

Andrew Doyle: Yes.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Andrew Doyle: The Government's continued commitment to the agrifood sector has been firmly reflected in the agrifood and marine budget for 2017. The increase in spending on the rural development programme, RDP, to €601 million in 2017, with the introduction of new schemes such as the animal welfare scheme for sheep, which is worth €25 million, and the innovative €150 million agri...

Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)

Andrew Doyle: I am glad to have the opportunity to participate in this important debate. I started my primary school education in a small school with 27 pupils. We moved and my mother became a teacher in second and third class, which had 40 in the room, so there was a slight change.

Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)

Andrew Doyle: I was certainly not the teacher's pet. I certainly felt picked on, shall we say, and I never got over it. My mother went on to teach her five other sons as well and she survived. Last week, Flahavan's and Keelings held an eating porridge week and the local school that won was the school in which my wife now teaches and through which my four children and six nieces have passed. That is a...

Topical Issue Debate: Brexit Issues (18 Oct 2016)

Andrew Doyle: The Minister is in London today and was scheduled to meet his counterpart but she cancelled. I think another meeting is scheduled for two weeks' time. I fully appreciate the gravity of this issue. I met the chief executive officer, CEO, of Monaghan Mushrooms, probably the primary producer in the country, last week. We worked through some suggestions and no one knows the industry better...

Topical Issue Debate: Brexit Issues (18 Oct 2016)

Andrew Doyle: Yes, indeed. The Deputy is correct in saying that the PO scheme is for investment but the structure of the PO is such that the money involved might be accessed, along with some other measures that are incentives for lean producing with Enterprise Ireland. Officials from the Department are meeting representatives from Enterprise Ireland to see what might be available from its pot of...

Topical Issue Debate: Brexit Issues (18 Oct 2016)

Andrew Doyle: I thank Deputy Ó Caoláin for raising this very important issue. It is particularly relevant to the area from which he comes. Let me reassure him that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Creed, and I are acutely aware of the challenges the mushroom sector is experiencing in the aftermath of the UK referendum decision to exit the European Union and in light of...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (18 Oct 2016)

Andrew Doyle: I thank Senator Byrne for raising this issue. As she will be aware, the marriage bar was a rule that existed in most of the public service and some private sector employments whereby women were required to leave their employment upon marriage. It was abolished in 1973 when we joined the EEC. Where such employees were public servants, they paid a reduced rate of PRSI which did not provide...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Fish Quotas (18 Oct 2016)

Andrew Doyle: I thank the Senator for raising this issue. I am covering for the Minister, Deputy Creed, on this occasion. The Celtic Sea sentinel herring fishery is a herring fishery for small boats under 17 m. in length operating in an area off the south-east coast known as the Dunmore box. This is an open access fishery and track record is not considered an appropriate management tool for the small...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Fish Quotas (18 Oct 2016)

Andrew Doyle: I am not sure what the position is but I will check.

Other Questions: Bord na gCon (13 Jul 2016)

Andrew Doyle: The report was not ready 12 months ago; it was commissioned 12 months ago. I was Chairman of the committee in the last Dáil that sought to have the new greyhound legislation brought before the committee for pre-legislative scrutiny. In the time since I became Minister of State about eight weeks ago, I have asked the officials who drafted the heads of that Bill to send it to the...

Other Questions: Bord na gCon (13 Jul 2016)

Andrew Doyle: The Deputy either believes me or he does not.

Other Questions: Bord na gCon (13 Jul 2016)

Andrew Doyle: He will not be; he need not worry.

Other Questions: Bord na gCon (13 Jul 2016)

Andrew Doyle: The Deputy could repeat that analogy in many ways. The steps Bord na gCon has already taken are out-of-competition testing at kennels; publication of laboratory results where there is an adverse analytical finding; prohibition of a greyhound from racing where an adverse analytical finding has been made until a further test for prohibited substance has been carried out and the result is...

Other Questions: Greyhound Industry (13 Jul 2016)

Andrew Doyle: Draft heads of a Bill are being prepared for pre-legislative scrutiny. I was chairman of the agriculture committee in the last Dáil. At the time, we were hoping to have the Bill ready for the pre-legislative scrutiny process. Essentially the new greyhound Bill is based on the Welfare of Greyhounds Act. We are trying to get it into the committee for the autumn session in order that it...

Other Questions: Bord na gCon (13 Jul 2016)

Andrew Doyle: I am not going to respond to those comments. They are not part of the question. It ill-befits the Deputy to make comments like that unless he has proof.