Results 6,701-6,720 of 18,593 for speaker:Michael Creed
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: No.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: No. I have had a lot of engagement with officials in my Department on the issue. Each individual case throws up a range of different issues. One might be mapping issues. Another might be actions on individual plots that the applicant is seeking to opt out of. All those cases require individual attention. They are not routine in their presentation and they require either the applicant to...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: I understand the politics of this. That is an indulgence that Deputy McConalogue can afford from where he is sitting.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: The point I am making is that the €1.4 billion was always understood to be a commitment for spending on agri-environmental schemes under the rural development programme. There was a GLAS element to it and there was an inherited liability which could have switched to GLAS. They could have switched to GLAS but those concerned decided to exercise their entitlement to work out their...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: We will in fact spend marginally more than Deputy Coveney committed to.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: There is an important question here. People did not join GLAS just in the first year. They have joined GLAS 2 and GLAS 3. I am the current incumbent. Deputy McConalogue may well be the person who is facing these questions in due course. I note that Deputy Jackie Cahill also has ambitions to that position. Deputy McConalogue is surely not saying that he or Deputy Cahill would not honour...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: I accept that Deputy McConalogue and I are never going to see eye-to-eye on this. We met the objective of enrolling 50,000 applicants in GLAS. We paid every contingent liability we faced under AEOS and REPS. Those were inherited liabilities, as there will be inherited liabilities from this rural development programme, as provided for in the regulation post-2020. We met the target of...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: I am under pressure to appear at Cabinet.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: Very well.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: The Deputy will be aware that a supplementary estimate at the back end of last year allocated an additional €5 million to Bord Bia. That agency is currently undertaking a recruitment campaign to take on 29 additional staff. It is an issue we keep under active consideration, but our engagement with Bord Bia leaves us satisfied that it is adequately provisioned at present.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: It was a supplementary estimate at the back end of last year.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: We keep Bord Bia's allocation under review on an annual basis.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: Bord Bia is recruiting boots on the ground as I speak, some 29 additional staff.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: They will be based both internationally and in headquarters here in Dublin. If the committee were to invite the CEO to appear, I think they would acknowledge that Bord Bia is adequately remunerated for the challenges they face.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: We have provided the resources Bord Bia requires. We are acutely conscious of the challenges it faces. We are meeting the targets outlined in Food Wise 2025, and we are consciously evaluating the resource requirements across a range of fronts, including in my own Department, to meet the challenges we face.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: We will launch the SME loan scheme tomorrow. That is a €300 million loan scheme. A minimum of 40% of it is available to agri-food SMEs that can prove an exposure to Brexit to the satisfaction of the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland, SBCI. There will be a further tranche of loans which will include farmers, fishermen and primary producers. It will be the second half of 2018...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: We have always made clear that the second half of 2018 is the deadline by which we could deliver.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: I will get the figures for the Deputy as they run quite contrary to the public perception. There is quite a significant combined effort between the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, and the Naval Service in monitoring all compliance with fishing legislation by both Irish and other EU member state boats in our territorial waters. The figures for boarding and checking of compliance...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: I am advised it may come to the Cabinet before the summer. It is with the Attorney General's office at the moment.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Michael Creed: I was going to say something but I better not.