Results 821-840 of 7,670 for speaker:Jackie Cahill

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: 395. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason an applicant must have filed BPS for 2022 in order to qualify for ACRES (details supplied); if he will consider amending this condition for ACRES; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50679/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: 565. To ask the Minister for Health if re-consideration will be given to PSRP eligibility to include day service Section 39 staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51021/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (16 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: 161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in relation to grants for septic tank improvements, he plans to increase the numbers of inspections available nationwide, in order that those who need an inspection can get one to avail of the grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50357/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (16 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: 162. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the areas in Tipperary that are covered for grants for septic tanks; if he intends to increase the areas mapped to allow a larger geographical area to avail of the grants in order to ensure the grants have a full impact in terms of environmental protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50358/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: The second session of today's meeting, to discuss the control and planning of the weighing of fishery projects with various fishery representative organisations, has been deferred to another date. I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones. Witnesses giving evidence from within the parliamentary precincts are protected by absolute privilege in respect of evidence they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: Why does the Senator not have a fence put up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: Senator Lombard is going to take the Chair. There is a vote in the Chamber.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: I call Deputy Fitzmaurice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Deputy Fitzmaurice and call Deputy Kerrane.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: I will make some points to the witnesses. I think they are on the right track with their comments on the composition of the board with nine members going forward. I am delighted to hear they are meeting the stakeholders. We have to buy into the stakeholders in the formation of the new board. That is important. I also think the board has to have a wide range of skills. We will not go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: Mr. Duggan said earlier that we have 35 riders jumping internationally. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: I want to stick to the point. We have approximately 100 horses jumping internationally under the Irish flag.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: What percentage of those are Irish bred?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: Is it 50% or 60%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: Is that figure rising, or is it static? What way is it going?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: How many?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: The measurement of our breeding strategy is probably how many of those horses graduate to jump internationally.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: I would still love to see the scenario where an Irish team will go out riding all Irish-bred horses. That is probably not that feasible in the modern, commercial world. One of the first non-Irish horses that jumped for us internationally was Boomerang. It created a right stir at the time that we had a non Irish-bred horse jumping. He jumped successfully for us. There is a big breeding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: It is definitely not an issue at the top end or even the middle of the market. As regards compliance, and we will get into welfare issues later on, the fact they are not registered makes it very difficult to deal with the situation or to find who is responsible for the welfare issue. We asked this previously of the Department and the figure we got at that stage was 19% of horses were not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: To go back to the tender issue, it was not really answered whether there is duplication of the work being done on the marketing of horses under another body besides HSI. Does Mr. Duggan consider there is a duplication of resources?