Results 41-60 of 263 for speaker:Natasha Newsome Drennan

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: There is room for everybody.

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 other side of it is that the witnesses are servicing more people than Teagasc. This is what I am saying about how the figures just do not add up. My husband uses Teagasc and gets on great with it. As Mr. Feeney said, it is not that Teagasc is not providing a service because it absolutely is, and I will be clear about that; it is about how exactly the funds are dished out. Teagasc is...

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 have one question on the training, when it is rolled out to Teagasc. When a new scheme comes on board or anything like that, training obviously has to go with it. I cannot understand why you would not get the training. What has been said with regard to the training? Is it something like, "No, you are a private company, you are not getting it"? What is the answer when it comes to that?...

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 Department should be obliged to give-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency: Mr. Maroš Šefovi (2 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: My family are suckler farmers. As Deputy Kenny stated, Irish beef is top quality. We do everything right, yet beef produced to a lesser standard will come in here and will be placed on the same shelf as Irish beef. What is being done about that? In Mercosur countries rainforests are being chopped down, while on this side of the world we are being punished because we are not doing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency: Mr. Maroš Šefovi (2 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: My family are suckler farmers. As Deputy Kenny stated, Irish beef is top quality. We do everything right, yet beef produced to a lesser standard will come in here and will be placed on the same shelf as Irish beef. What is being done about that? In Mercosur countries rainforests are being chopped down, while on this side of the world we are being punished because we are not doing...

Investment in Sport and Sporting Infrastructure: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Every community in Ireland knows the value of sport. It is essential for our physical health, our mental well-being and strengthening community cohesion. Countless reports show the enormous social and health returns on every euro invested in sport. While the Minister of State and his colleagues are quick to jump on the bandwagon and praise the success of our athletes, they do so with empty...

Abolition of Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I strongly welcome and support this motion. I worked as a carer for people with disabilities for 18 years. I have witnessed first-hand the invaluable work carried out by thousands of other carers across this country and I can say this: I, along with the carers who I worked with over those years, am sick and tired of hearing the Minister and his colleagues singing their praises in this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: It is stark to read that the Irish grain assurance scheme, IGAS, recently pointed out that one tillage farmer will be gone every week and we have 11,000 full-time equivalent jobs in the market. Is most of the 5 million tonnes of grain that is imported coming from Europe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Does it all come from outside Europe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: What sector is it going into here? Is it animal feed porridge? Of those 5 million tonnes, what grains are we importing? Is more of it feed, oats or what is the breakdown?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: There was an income drop of 70% in 2023. The cost of diesel and of everything is going up. We live on an island and we need food security. The Government is wonderful at announcing it will support people and so on. What do the witnesses think?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: With Government support, where could the industry get to? Of the 5 million tonnes we are importing, how much could we produce so we are not importing as much?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I absolutely agree. With any of our food, such as the beef sector and imports under Mercosur, which let us face it they are just trying to plough through, we cannot compete. People will go into shops and pick up the cheapest item because they have to feed their families. That is just how life has gone. Our beef will be beside other beef and will be swallowed up by the market purely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: No, they do not.

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I thank my Sinn Féin colleagues for bringing forward this important motion on the cost of insurance. The record is clear. Time and again, the Minister of State and his colleagues in government show clearly which side they stand on. They have consistently blocked, stalled and delayed reforms that would lower the cost of car insurance. As a result, they have ensured that insurance...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: You think it is a laughing matter that you spent that much money on it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: It is not funny.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: It is a bit like school buses. As we get back to school, it is the first morning of school that we find out whether we have a got a ticket. I understand and we all agree that we have to do our best to keep this. It is all about water quality, which we need. On the 20 rivers, which I presume are spaced out, do we have information on what rivers are tested and at what positions they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: It would be good to get a better picture weather-wise if that report was done more frequently. It is easy to out and collect a little bit of water. The figure of 16% may not be 16% on another day if we have heavy rain - that is the idea I am getting. For example, if there is heavy rainfall, are the waters flowing more quickly and is the concentration therefore lower?