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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: We are, but it is the EU law-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: I would like to hear the officials say it is not and that the move towards uniformity in standards-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: Will the Department move towards accepting boats that are licensed in other EU member states and, if not, in the short term, will it move towards accepting harmonised standards? If those harmonised standards are achieved across the EU, will it then accept boats licensed by other EU member states?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: Will Mr. O'Driscoll please answer the question about live exports?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: It has that result, even if it is entirely inadvertent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: I am not proposing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: In fairness, I never proposed that Ireland should accept an eight-hour limit in shipping. I am well aware Ireland must ship through the Bay of Biscay, which poses considerable difficulties.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: My earlier point was that the only way the cattle can leave Ireland is dead means, inadvertently or otherwise, that beef processors have rich pickings in Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: I am not proposing an eight-hour restriction.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: I am not proposing an eight-hour restriction.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: What I am proposing is that we move towards uniformity in shipping standards in Europe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: Who said it should involve an eight-hour restriction?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: It is not what he said. He said they are two separate issues, and they are.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: I seek clarification on one point that has been made. The Department has asked farmers to consider how they can move from tier 3 to tier 2. Farmers with bird breeding grounds on their lands are tier 1. As I live near Lough Derg, I know there are a lot of areas around it, and also in east Clare lakelands and across Clare, that are bird habitats. The habitats have been noted as such by the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: Is Mr. O'Driscoll saying this may happen in the very near future?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: What about quid pro quo? The NPWS is quite happy to verify that habitats are nesting grounds for birds that are already included in the birds directive because they are an endangered species, yet some have not been included, I presume inadvertently. There have been a raft of proposals to zone these areas as national heritage areas because they are habitats for these birds, which I presume...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: I take it "No" is the answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: Could I ask a question? I am not asking about extending the number of species. I agree entirely with the objectives, but there are parcels-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: -----which are not NHAs. I cited the example of proposed NHAs, but there are other parcels of land beyond that which were never proposed as NHAs but which NPWS personnel can verify are important areas for the very birds that were named by Mr. O'Driscoll but are not included in the mapping. The current approach is very much a case of "Computer says no". Although BirdWatch Ireland or the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)
Michael McNamara: Can I get an answer to my question?