Results 701-720 of 5,615 for speaker:Andrew Doyle
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Dec 2015)
Andrew Doyle: In the long run, it found the right niche, although it might have taken a while. This programme will probably be the surprise package because it can do so much for efficiency. If the 400-day calving interval could be brought down to 380 days, it would make a large difference to profitability, carbon emissions, feed costs and so forth. Recently, I spoke to a man who had no e-mail or online...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Andrew Doyle: I will allow the Minister to respond. I ask members to switch off their mobile phones. The item on the agenda today is the Supplementary Estimate, Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The meeting has been convened to consider the Supplementary Estimate, which was referred to the committee on 19 November with an instruction to report back to the Dáil not later than 9 December...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Andrew Doyle: The Minister acknowledged that the figures were ready on Tuesday, so five working days would have been from Wednesday until today. Perhaps it would have been better to have circulated them to members by Wednesday. The general point has been made. Members feel a bit uneasy about getting short notice. Deputy Ó Cuív refers to some completed documents, which were only furnished to...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Andrew Doyle: We have a briefing document. Will the Minister synopsise his opening statement and then we can go through the subheads? Is that agreeable to members?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Andrew Doyle: I am in the members' hands.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Andrew Doyle: That is fine, if members are agreeable.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Andrew Doyle: Can we continue please?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Andrew Doyle: Sorry Deputy can you please allow the Minister to make his opening statement?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Andrew Doyle: Minister and members, we will not engage in this. We will try to get on with the business. This is an important issue of €104 million. Let us get on with it please.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Andrew Doyle: I thank the Minister. I will call spokespersons and other members who may make a general comment at the beginning. Thereafter I ask them to refer to the subhead about which they wish to make a point. I ask them to confine themselves to five minutes in the first round and I will indicate when the five minutes are up. If they only get to two or three subheads initially, I will come back to...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Andrew Doyle: Please, Minister.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Andrew Doyle: No-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Andrew Doyle: I ask both gentlemen to speak through the Chair. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív to continue without interruption.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Andrew Doyle: I am. It comes to a minute and a half.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Andrew Doyle: There are two quick points I would like to make following on from points that were made by others. One is on beef data. If, as may be the case, it pans out that there is an ongoing underspend and the provision of €52 million turns out not to be met, would the Minister consider providing a similar scheme to improve quality based on the same principles in the sheep sector?...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Andrew Doyle: Deputy Ó Cuív please, we are trying to conduct a meeting.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Andrew Doyle: Will the €115 million, to which the Deputy refers, by and large, be spent?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Andrew Doyle: I would add that it was my understanding that the BDGP moneys were not to be spent until December. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Andrew Doyle: The graph that has been shown is useful and we have found it helpful. For future reference and for the purposes of better communication, I wish to point out that such a profile sheet would have been very useful to us last week in order that Members could prepare for the meeting this afternoon. Such a document with footnotes attached would have clarified many of the questions that are now...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Andrew Doyle: I am conscious of time.