Results 1,061-1,080 of 3,336 for speaker:Kate O'Connell
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: We had that already.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: How does the Secretary General know how far down the road the Department has gone with this? How does he know how far the Department is into the process if he does not know the value of the motor vehicles or microscopes or how many the Department had?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: That is not really my point. How does the Department know how much headway has been made if it does not know how much is out there?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Is that the figure of €81,000?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: It will be interesting to see how, from the time the governance started, the disposal figure will rise. It will be interesting to see what that implies about what happened beforehand. That is a block of work.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: The Department operates the animal identification and movement system, AIMS. Is there any requirement under legislation for this animal data to be visible to the proprietors or owners of beef factories? I cannot understand it. I know the point of the register. I understand it attracts the age and breed and so on - I am from rural Ireland originally, although I am a Dublin Deputy - but is...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: I understand that. I know the purpose of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Does Mr. Gleeson accept that this data could be used by beef processors to manage and control supply and demand within the beef sector? I am asking these questions in light of the stresses on the beef sector due to the world as it is now as well as Brexit. We have heard people speak about the €100 million for beef. We are putting in money to help our farmers but sometimes there are...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Mr. Gleeson does not need to be; it is really a data issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Is Mr. Gleeson talking about the Department managing it properly or those in the beef industry managing it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: I know that; I have worked in a plant.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Mr. Gleeson is telling me today at the Committee of Public Accounts that only data relating to the animal being presented for sale can be looked at. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Moreover, those in the beef industry are not able to look and see how many six-month old beef bull calves are coming on stream. Is that accurate? They do not have access to that information. Is that the position?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: The point of my questions was that I assumed, and was under the impression, that they had access to these data. Mr. Gleeson is telling me now that it is only on animals presented-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: The animal is registered at birth with a tag and it is in the system. I am just trying to get this straight in my head. Let us say I own a calf. I register him when he is born but that information is hidden from the beef processor until the day I sell my calf to the factory for killing. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Do the data become available on the day the animal is presented?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Perfect. In terms of the €100 million Brexit fund for beef to which Deputy Aylward referred, Mr. Gleeson suggested this could mean a reduction in beef herd numbers. I am worried about that. We are number one for efficiency vis-à-visgreenhouse gas emissions in the dairy sector and number five in the beef sector. We are improving all of the time in terms of education and Teagasc...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: It is a market-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: There is no stipulation that the market adjustment must be a reduction in beef headage.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: That could be one of-----