Results 81-100 of 578 for speaker:Peter Cleere

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Jun 2025)

Peter Cleere: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the implementation of the review of the school transport scheme. [30837/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Contracts (12 Jun 2025)

Peter Cleere: 247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for details of the public-private partnership contract for a bridge (details supplied). [31406/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (12 Jun 2025)

Peter Cleere: 282. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will commit to the retention of existing vital tax relief and extend for the lifetime of this Government to give certainty to the agricultural community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31355/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tax Reliefs (12 Jun 2025)

Peter Cleere: 446. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update regarding farm related tax relief schemes currently available; schemes that he is considering; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31354/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Inquiries (12 Jun 2025)

Peter Cleere: 533. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 367 of 28 May 2025, to clarify a matter (details supplied). [31505/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Peter Cleere: Could Mr. Larkin briefly talk me through the potential dramatic shift in the veterinary supply chain, obviously moving away from the co-ops and the independent licensed permits?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Peter Cleere: What would be the financial impact of that in terms of value?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Peter Cleere: I am really concerned about the economic impact in particular on rural Ireland. How many potential job losses are we looking at if we do not get a proper resolution? Obviously, the merchants are frustrated because they have been at it a long time but they are not getting a hop out of the Department by all accounts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Peter Cleere: I have serious worries about the unintended consequences of this particular statutory instrument and the fact that we could potentially lose hundreds, if not thousands of jobs in rural Ireland, in towns and villages like those I and other members here represent. That is something that we absolutely do not want to see happening. The service that the merchants provide to rural Ireland must be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Peter Cleere: I fully appreciate our guests coming in and giving their time. I hope the Department will engage in a more positive fashion going forward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Peter Cleere: I thank the officials for attending this afternoon. I am very conscious that at the heart of everything here – involving the Department, merchants and veterinary side – is the farmer at home. I am thinking of the farmer at home, and that is where my questions are coming from. In all of this, was any thought at all given to the potential significant inconvenience for your...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Peter Cleere: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Peter Cleere: What is the Department's view on the notable shift in sales patterns among merchants due to this statutory instrument regulation and what is being implemented?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Peter Cleere: In previous exchanges, there was the possibility that hundreds or thousands of jobs in rural Ireland could be lost. What is the Department's view on that possibility?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Peter Cleere: Given that we do not know what will happen, how would the Department assess the potential financial burden of compliance with the veterinary medicine products regulations on small-scale farmers and merchants? What supports will be made available to mitigate these costs for all the different stakeholders?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Peter Cleere: Is there any support for merchants or the veterinary side of things?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Peter Cleere: I am conscious of time so I will move along. The NBPS is the new electronic prescription system developed by the Department. How much did it cost?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Peter Cleere: Is it fit for purpose? I note that it was said earlier that 54% are engaged. What is the story with the other 50%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Peter Cleere: Another 30% are aware it is there.