Results 741-760 of 4,507 for speaker:Pat Deering
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: It would be appreciated if Ms McPhillips could give us an update on where matters stand. Things have escalated a bit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: We will be having difficult conversations in the coming weeks as there does not appear to be a silver bullet to bring stability to the markets. Is it sustainable to continue to kill in excess of 35,000 cattle per week? Are our numbers too high in that regard? Where does the Department see our suckler numbers in 2030 compared with now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: That is happening. Once we go over 32,000 or 33,000, we seem to be in trouble on a regular basis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: I appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: How do the 2003 numbers compare with those of 2019?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: I thank Ms McPhiilips and her team for coming before us today. This is the beginning of a conversation we will be having over the next number of weeks and I am sure she will update us with any information on the export issue in due course.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Laboratory Facilities (14 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: 198. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has completed his value for money review into the regional veterinary laboratories; and if so, when it will be made public. [7584/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (13 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: 145. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding persons with type 1 diabetes over 21 years of age being granted a FreeStyle Libre monitoring machine; when persons with type 1 diabetics over 21 years of age will be allowed the same choices as those under 21 years of age (details supplied); and the price difference between the use of FreeStyle Libre and other devices for which blood...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: I ask members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery to make sure their mobile phones are completely turned off as they affect the broadcasting system. I welcome Mr. Ray Doyle from the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society, ICOS, and Mr. Seamus Scallan and Ms Elizabeth Scallan from Wicklow Calf Company Limited. I thank them for coming before the committee to discuss the issue of live...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: I thank Mr. Doyle. I understand Mr. Scallan will make an opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Are the two lairages in Cherbourg privately owned?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Do all of Mr. Scallan's exports go to Cherbourg?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: From there they are distributed-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Live exports are crucial for Ireland. They are essential.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: This is European legislation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: To go back to the Cherbourg issue, there are two lairages there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Is there a possibility of other space being made available?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: We will seek answers to the questions put by the previous three speakers before coming back to Deputy Cahill. Senator Paul Daly also has a question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: May I ask Mr. Scallan a question? I am sorry for cutting across him. When he talks about people coming together, is he talking about fellow exporters?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Has Wicklow Calf Company, as a group of exporters in its own right, tried to form a group together?