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Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I welcome the members of the Edgeworthstown active age group who are in the Public Gallery looking on. They asked me what we were speaking about today and I told them it was bogs. They said we do not have an awful lot of grá for bogs in this House, with the exception of Deputy Fitzmaurice, who was sitting behind my shoulder. I tried to emphasise that we do indeed have a great passion...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (31 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: 175. To ask the Minister for Health the additional community health services being provided in each county in CHO8 since 2020, in tabular form. [26497/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (30 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: 496. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on a naturalisation application by a person (details supplied), where further information was requested in March 2023. [25711/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (30 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: 813. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she intends to announce details of the recipients of funding under the CLÁR Measure 1 - funding for community facilities and amenities, given that the closing date for applications was 12 May 2023. [26214/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the witnesses and apologies we had to step outside. I picked up on Mr. Fleming's points. He said his whole argument is merit-based. Four universities have a pitch in and I am sure they are very detailed,based on the previous ones. I am a little concerned that everything has been staked on Limerick and I hoped he might have gone into more detail and set us apart why Limerick as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Can Mr. Moriarty assure us that speed does not come at the expense of the right location?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Mr. Moriarty does not have a Limerick jersey on underneath.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Okay. We agree it is a case of speed and there is a need to scale it. Everybody here agrees there is a high level of burnout among vets. It is an extremely difficult job. Especially for people with young families, it must be well-nigh impossible. With approximately 80 places in UCD for training vets, Mr. Moriarty has quite rightly pointed out that we are coming to a cliff edge with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Perhaps the point I am trying to get to is, looking at our profile and the number of farms vis-à-visother countries, what is the optimum number of graduate vets we need to be producing, given the age profile and to avoid this cliff-edge scenario? Obviously, we all agree that 80 to 82 is not the right number. What should it be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: We should be providing places for 300 people then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Yes. We might have to step it up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I am sorry, but I am just conscious of my time. I ask the witnesses to indulge me in addressing two more points, if that is okay with the Cathaoirleach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I appreciate it. We have a centre of excellence in UCD and there will always be a concern in this regard. If parents have a child who wants to become a vet, they will want their little Johnny to go to UCD, no matter if we have a new institution. There will always be an element of this attitude. The MRCVS is coming at this issue from the best interests of its...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Very good. This is a very parochial setting. Everyone will make a pitch for the university closest to them. Unfortunately, I do not think our university in the midlands has made a play for this new institution. Thinking hypothetically, however, if this endeavour got to the point where it was not just UL but UL and another institution, along with UCD, would the witnesses think such a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: If that happened, though, would Mr. Moriarty be concerned? I come back to my earlier point regarding trying to attract the required academic personnel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Again, I am conscious of time. To conclude, the advice from the MRCVS would be that the prudent approach would be to go with a second location and then further down the road, if needs be, to look at a third location. The prudent advice from the profession now, though, is to go with a second location only.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Is Mr. Moriarty's argument about scale and speed?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: 289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown by county of the number of pupils travelling to secondary school on private buses and not covered by the school transport scheme. [24321/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (23 May 2023)

Joe Flaherty: 626. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a stud greyhound (details supplied) is registered accordingly in Greyhound Racing Ireland's RCETS traceability system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24717/23]