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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: I wish to raise a minor issue, but one that affects some medical card holders under review. A few cases have been raised in my office in this regard. Under the assessment, the HSE is asking for a notice of assessment from the Revenue Commissioners on income where a means test has already been done, for example, by the Department of Social Protection. Ordinarily, one would not be asked for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forage Fish: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: The ultimate adoption by the EU of maximum sustainable yields in the context of the Common Fisheries Policy will go a long way towards dealing with some of these issues. That is welcome. The market is driven by consumer sentiment. If the market demands anchovy, sardinella or menhaden, a way will be found to facilitate that. Has Dr. Pikitch done any work on that side of the process to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forage Fish: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: If one took a scientific approach, one would tie up everything, there would be no fishery exploitation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forage Fish: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: I have listened to the scientific experts. We are facing cuts in the next year in the total allowable catch of demersal fish of between 60% and 70% based on scientific advice. If one were to make a choice on the species of fish one would exploit, would it be more appropriate to consider the pelagic sector? We have more information and we have a greater knowledge of the impact of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forage Fish: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: I welcome the witness and apologise for missing the beginning of her presentation. I am not a member of this committee but am very pleased to attend this meeting. Dr. Pikitch spoke about the fact that with forage fish species, collapses can occur relatively quickly. We tend to classify forage fish in this country as pelagic species.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forage Fish: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: Pelagic species and demersal species are under different regimes and management systems. We saw a collapse in what is known as the Celtic Sea herring fishery on the south and east coasts of this country. After approximately ten years of careful management, that fishery has recovered well. Ten years is reasonably quick for a fishery to recover. Can Dr. Pikitch give some indication as to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forage Fish: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: They rely on plankton. Climate change affects forage fisheries very severely because water temperature has a big impact. What inhibits the fisheries at a local level, apart from exploitation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forage Fish: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: We have almost concluded negotiations at an EU level on our Common Fisheries Policy. Much of the scientific information from Ireland comes from the Irish Marine Institute based in Galway, which is fed into the ICES committee and then onto the European Commission. It is at that point that it becomes political. On this very day, an issue has arisen with the Governments of the Faroe Islands...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forage Fish: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: We can exploit the pelagic species while taking into consideration issues like maximum sustainable yield, monitoring stocks and so forth. It also takes the pressure off in terms of the exploitation of demersal species. Pelagic fish are also much quicker to recover. In my opinion the Marine Institute provides more information on pelagic stocks that we fish, species such as herring,...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: I apologise to the Minister of State for stopping him in such a flow. Everything he says is correct. I am pleased to have a chance to speak for four minutes on budget 2014. The three main objectives of this budget are: to continue to correct the public finances, to continue to create more jobs, and to support hard-working families on average incomes which have given the most since this...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: We are creating 3,000 jobs per month when not that long ago we were losing 7,000 jobs. There are progressive measures within this budget that, I believe, will help constituencies such as mine, Cork South-West-----

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: -----and south Kerry, and they should be supported.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: There are measures that will help tourism. The retention of the 9% VAT rate should have the-----

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: Absolutely.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: There is also the abolition of the tax on flights. This afternoon Ryanair confirmed that it hopes to create 1,000 jobs in the airports around the country. That must be welcomed. Equally, there is a need to welcome the progressive measures that will help the small construction players. Those in every part of the country will derive benefit from the tax rebates on small renovation jobs of...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: It was a national pyramid scheme and Deputy Mattie McGrath did not even know he was in it.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: He did not even know he was in it. All they could do was pump more money into it. They saw a problem, threw taxpayers' money at it and walked away as happy as Larry.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: It does not work anymore. It cannot work like that. The economy Fianna Fáil inherited in 1997 was one that was functioning based on production, based on work, and based on initiative and reward, and the party blew it. We must get back there again. It gives nobody any pleasure to take €2.5 billion but one does it in the fairest way.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: We have had enough of the mock outrage.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (15 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: 29. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that none of the 21 bankers stated by the European Banking Authority to have earned over a million Euro in salary in Ireland in 2011 were employed by the banks that the State assisted (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43210/13]