Results 701-720 of 4,507 for speaker:Pat Deering
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Mar 2019)
Pat Deering: I remind members and witnesses to ensure their mobile phones are turned off. From the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, I welcome Dr. Cecil Beamish, assistant secretary general, Ms Josephine Kelly, principal officer, and Mr. Colm Ó Súilleabháin, assistant principal. I thank them for appearing before the committee to discuss EU legislative proposals COM (2019)...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Mar 2019)
Pat Deering: I thank Dr. Beamish. We will now take questions from members. Deputy Pringle was first to indicate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Mar 2019)
Pat Deering: Deputy, that is not quite factually correct. The line last week was that negotiations were ongoing and that it might not be of most benefit at that time. What the Deputy said is not factually correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Mar 2019)
Pat Deering: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Mar 2019)
Pat Deering: Deputy Kenny has a question-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Mar 2019)
Pat Deering: Go ahead.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Mar 2019)
Pat Deering: I thank Dr. Beamish for coming in today and giving a detailed explanation of a technical and uncertain issue. I am sure we will be dealing with this again at some time in the very near future.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (26 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Schedule A is COM (2019) 48, proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No. 508/2014 as regards certain rules relating to the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund by reason of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union, and COM (2019) 49, proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: I welcome Professor Simon More here for the first session today. He is the director at the UCD centre for veterinary epidemiology and risk analysis. Before we begin, I draw the attention of Professor More to the fact that witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they give to the committee. However, if they are directed by the committee to cease giving...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: I thank Professor More for a very informative presentation. Deputy Cahill will speak first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: We will want barristers too.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: How did that affect farm sustainability from a commercial point of view?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: I would appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: I thank Professor More for that. Are there any more questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: On that point, if one looks at the map of the country one will see that a number of black spots, in Wicklow in particular, are quite close to areas of forestry-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: The point I am making is that forests provide a lot of cover for wildlife, including deer and badgers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Deputy McConalogue is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: In Professor More's opinion, is Ireland being TB free by 2030 achievable or pie in the sky?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Deputy Penrose might have been right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: I thank Professor More for his presentation, which was interesting and informative. This is a discussion that we will probably have again. As he knows, we discussed this matter before Christmas, and some of his colleagues will address us shortly.