Results 1,061-1,080 of 7,670 for speaker:Jackie Cahill
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Why did the councils step down from Horse Sport Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Has the Minister indicated to Showjumping Ireland when he intends to restore the board to its November size?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: There has been no indication. Showjumping Ireland has asked the Minister that question, obviously.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: So, the industry is in a vacuum as such.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: If the Minister said in the morning that he was restoring the board to its nine-member size, is the same appointment structure going to be in place that it had, that is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: -----the organisations will appoint someone? Has Showjumping Ireland a preferred option?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: It is not similar to HRI where each sector has the ability to nominate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: However, it is prescribed for HRI-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: -----that should involve a person from the trainers association, the owners or someone, etc.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Was there just an informal arrangement whereby the organisations nominated someone to the board? Was there no legislative structure for that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I understand the Minister is going to change the structure of Horse Sport Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: It is a fundamental point. I am not trying to cross-examine Mr. Corrigan but it is important to get a feel for exactly where we are at with the relationship between the organisations and Horse Sport Ireland. We need to get that relationship back on a working footing. That is probably bad English but it is what we need to do. The industry is not in a bad place. We see the prices young...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: We have Ryan's and Broderick's.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: That is a conservative figure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: There is an element of that in horse racing as well, with different levies for jockeys injury funds and so on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I do not think there is any need to be disillusioned. It is an industry that is in a good place. I am not saying that everything is perfect but we have an interim board in Horse Sport Ireland which came in in difficult enough circumstances when the board disbanded. What I would see as our job is to deal with the issues that need to be ironed out between the Minister, the various...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I actually missed Horse Sport Ireland reporting to this committee. The day that representatives from Horse Sport Ireland appeared before the committee, I was unavoidably absent. I am, therefore, just trying to get a feel of where the background came from. The board was unhappy and its members felt that their instructions were not being carried out and they stepped down. Since that, the...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: 735. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total hectares of land excluded from afforestation activity under bird exclusion zones within the new forestry programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39848/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2023)
Jackie Cahill: 736. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the area of land excluded from afforestation activity due to hen harrier designation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39849/23]