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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Meetings (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: 308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she has taken since October 2020 to address the concerns of an association (details supplied) regarding the new syllabus for agricultural science; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36187/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Meetings (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: 309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to issues with the leaving certificate agricultural science syllabus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36188/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: 424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding available for a masters student (details supplied) who is undertaking a 12 month course of study and whose SUSI grant only covers a nine month period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36383/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: 510. To ask the Minister for Health if those Irish citizens who have received their vaccines in Northern Ireland or in the UK will be in a position to avail of the green cert vaccine passport for travel to other EU states; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29704/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: A Chathaoirligh, I know you have to be diplomatic to a point, but I have to agree with other speakers that it is scandalous that representatives of the Department are not here. I know you have cited the short notice, but any Minister who hears of an industry coming before an Oireachtas committee to report that 17,000 jobs are at risk will make sure that either he or she or senior officials...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: I know, I appreciate that, but the very fact the Department is not here means it does not understand the subject, it does not appreciate the catastrophic situation we potentially face or it does not care. People have been talking about relevant Ministers. It is time the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine takes a hands-on approach to this issue because this is an agricultural...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: I will get them from the transcript. Thank you. What about the emergency legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Task Force: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: I thank our guests for taking the time to be with us this evening. I have a number of questions, most of which will only require short answers so I will ask them individually. Perhaps Mr. Dowling would outline what he considers to be the main achievements of the beef task force since its establishment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Task Force: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: What does Mr. Dowling consider the status of the Grant Thornton reports to be now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Task Force: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: There is, therefore, a big problem here. Universally, farmers I speak to consider the Grant Thornton reports to be fudges, at best, and potentially even whitewashes in the sense that farmers consider them to reinforce the proposition of Meat Industry Ireland, MII. In many cases, the reports acknowledge that they are heavily reliant on the industry for whatever information they contain....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Task Force: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: Let me rephrase that. Did the beef task force take any specific steps to publicise the new entitlements that were available to farmers as a result of that agreement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Task Force: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: The beef task force has put the minutes on the website to ensure that farmers are aware of their entitlements. That is essentially the response to that. Are the witnesses satisfied that the processors are honouring their side of the agreements that were made?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Task Force: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: Is Mr. Dowling satisfied that, for example, weighing at processing plants is universally happening?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Task Force: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: We can say, then-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Task Force: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: So essentially, we are saying that the meat factories can pick and choose which aspects of the agreement they consider they are required to implement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Task Force: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: Is there a mechanism there? An agreement has been in place. It was publicised to a degree. I am not sure if the detail of it has been conveyed to all farmers concerned. What recourse is there, when meat factories do not adhere to their end of that agreement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Task Force: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: Mr Dowling mentioned that the protected geographical indication, PGI, status was a success. However, it is not through yet. What estimate has been made by the beef task force in respect of an additional price that will be made available, either in percentage or real terms on a per kilo basis, for those cattle that meet the PGI status?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Task Force: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: What equivalent product is there in respect of PGI status for an Irish grass-fed standard that potentially will encompass 90% of beef? Is there another PGI equivalent to which we could compare that, at the European level?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Task Force: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: I am aware of the work that the task force has done on the issue of getting the agreement the witnesses have spoken about, as well as the efforts the Department is putting in to bring this PGI application over the line. It would be a travesty if at the end of the day, the PGI status simply became another “inspect bonus” or that in other words, it became a penalty for those who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Task Force: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Carthy: On suckler beef and the promotion therein, what needs to happen to deliver an additional price for the suckler product? What work has Bord Bia been doing or has committed to do? What differential is made or can be made? Has the task force looked at and examined the issue of factory-owned feedlots and their impact on the sector and on the overall pricing structures for the beef market?