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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Pat Deering: There were some other questions. Deputy McConalogue mentioned a potential hardship scheme, and Deputy Cahill mentioned pigs. The issue of aquaculture was also raised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Pat Deering: On that issue we will write to the Minister in due course looking for a more detailed response. Is that all right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Pat Deering: On the fodder issue, before I return to Deputy, there is one issue that may not have been addressed yet. For the first time in a long time, we see fodder coming from west to east. There is a substantial cost involved in that also. Would the Department or the forum look at the idea of subsidising the cost of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Pat Deering: I call Senators Mulherin and Lombard now, and I will return to that point thereafter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Pat Deering: I presume Deputy Danny Healy-Rae wishes to contribute to the debate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Pat Deering: I remind the Deputy of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Pat Deering: I ask the Deputy to try to keep to budgetary matters. We can deal with forestry again at a later stage in another committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Pat Deering: I thank Deputy Healy-Rae and I ask Deputy O'Keefe if he wants to make a contribution

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Pat Deering: I ask the Deputy to confine his contribution to budgetary matters

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Pat Deering: Witnesses have been asked to make brief contributions on those matters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Pat Deering: We have covered every area. How much extra money does the Minister hope to get this year in the budget?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Pat Deering: That issue is on our agenda and work programme for the coming term as well. We will engage with the Minister on it further.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Pat Deering: Does the Minister want to comment on the nitrates directive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Pat Deering: I thank the Minister and his officials for coming before the committee. We look forward with anticipation to next week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Joint Committee (25 Sep 2018)

Pat Deering: Apologies have been received from Deputy Thomas Pringle and Senator Michelle Mulherin. I remind members to ensure that mobile phones are turned off. I propose that we go into private session to deal with housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (25 Sep 2018)

Pat Deering: We are now in public session. The next item on the agenda is the scrutiny of EU legislative proposals before members today. The first item on Schedule A is COM (2018) 390, a proposal for a Council regulation on the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund. It is proposed that this proposal requires further scrutiny by way of requesting the Department to keep the committee updated on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (Resumed) (25 Sep 2018)

Pat Deering: As we are now in public session again I remind members and witnesses to ensure their mobile phones are turned off. We are here today for further scrutiny of EU legislative proposal COM (2018) 173. From the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine I welcome Ms Sinéad McPhillips, assistant Secretary General; Ms Gráinne Mulligan, principal officer; and Mr. Niall McKeon,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (Resumed) (25 Sep 2018)

Pat Deering: I thank Ms McPhillips. Before I open the session to questions from members, I acknowledge that Ms McPhillips stated this is an important first step on the issue. Is the directive very restrictive? Will it tackle multinationals such as Tesco, Aldi and Lidl?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (Resumed) (25 Sep 2018)

Pat Deering: Approximately three, four or five years ago, a previous committee compiled a report on unfair trading practices. One of its recommendations was the establishment of an independent arbitrator, such as that provided for under the British system. Is the directive a stepping stone towards the provision of such a role in Ireland? The United Kingdom has its own independent system but Ireland did...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (Resumed) (25 Sep 2018)

Pat Deering: As I said earlier, transparency was one of the big issues in the previous committee's report. Will the proposal deal with that matter in the detail required? For example, some multinationals are not currently required to outline their profit margins for the year. There is also the issue which was dealt with previously of products being used as loss leaders. We saw that a couple of...