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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I call Deputy Flaherty.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I am sorry, Deputy Flaherty. Did Mr. Cashman want to add something?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: That was answered earlier so Mr. Cashman might give a short answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Is there any chance of that, Mr. Ryan? The Department should know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: He is not looking neglected.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I do not think they do. Senator Boylan has five minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Mr. Calleary has local authority responsibility. Each county council has some responsibility. Do the county councils have enough resources? That was the Deputy's question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: The Deputy has made his point. I call Mr. McDermott.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Just in case he will growl at me tomorrow, I will say that we in Tipperary have a very good county council vet who does a lot of work with stray horses. I say that just in case he comes at me tomorrow. I work closely with him and in fairness to him, he is very active on the ground.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: He is a Limerick man. On behalf of the committee, I thank the witnesses for their contributions. We will suspend the meeting to allow them to leave and the witnesses for the next session to take their seats.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: An Rialálaí Agraibhia: Engagement with Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I apologise for keeping the witnesses waiting. We are running behind time and the voting period did not help. I welcome Mr. Joe Healy, chairperson designate of An Rialálaí Agraibhia, and wish him the best in his new appointment. He is accompanied by Ms Niamh Lenehan, CEO designate of An Rialálaí Agraibhia. She is very welcome to the meeting. Five minutes will be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: An Rialálaí Agraibhia: Engagement with Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Deputy Kerrane is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: An Rialálaí Agraibhia: Engagement with Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I have just one question before we finish. There is a large discrepancy between our market and that of the UK market as regards the price of beef. Does the regulator see itself as having a role in investigating why that is?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: An Rialálaí Agraibhia: Engagement with Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: We will leave the peaks and troughs out of it. The fact is there is a very large discrepancy between the two. Does the regulator have a role in seeing why the factories here are not able to match the prices in the UK or to come somewhere near them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: An Rialálaí Agraibhia: Engagement with Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: An Rialálaí Agraibhia: Engagement with Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: The regulator sees itself as having a role in investigating why there is such a discrepancy between the prices our factories are being paid and the prices being paid in the UK.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: An Rialálaí Agraibhia: Engagement with Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I thank the witnesses for their contribution to the committee today. We genuinely wish them the very best of luck. We have been waiting a long time for this body. We look forward to inviting the witnesses back to the committee in 12 months time to give an update on progress in bringing transparency to the market place. I thank the witnesses. The next public meeting of the committee will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I think the lads were finished and the witnesses from the Department were about to respond. Is that accurate? Does Mr. Ryan or Ms Kelly wish to respond?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Not individual vets.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: An Rialálaí Agraibhia: Engagement with Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Senator Lombard is next.