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- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Did he use them?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: I do not think he did.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: I am not talking about the video and I am not talking about the slaughter of that particular pig. I am talking about the general slaughtering of the pigs and whether it was done correctly.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Yes. When the Department thought about a resolution in terms of what it needed to do and what transpired after that, in those three months the farmer was left in a situation where obviously he could not trade. Did the Department second-guess or have any thoughts with regard to what occurred after the fact, medicines being taken away from him, the fact that disease was spreading among those...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: What I cannot understand is, if it was so important and crucial that those pigs be slaughtered, why the Department waited three months? If it was the case that the immediacy of this issue deserved quick action, I do not understand why the Department would let those pigs remain on that farm for three months. Ultimately, it seems it was quite a haphazard approach by the Department when it...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Fair enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: In a case with animals where dioxins are involved, does the Department pay for the slaughter of those animals and the compensation that goes with that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Fair enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: I understand. One could make the argument that, for fairness reasons, it might have been the best option. I do not expect Mr. O'Driscoll to comment on that but it might have been the fairer outcome. I will tell Mr. O'Driscoll where I am going with this. I understand he was not dealing with this in 2002 and some of the officials probably were not around or dealt with any of this. I...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: I appreciate that. I might come in with different issues afterwards. I thank Mr. O'Driscoll for his candour.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: I have a couple of questions. The first relates to something that the committee has been addressing in the report that we are finalising, namely, the State fishery ports. We have been back and forth with the Department on this issue. We understand that it and the problems in the system were inherited by the Department. I do not know who in the Department volunteered for this or who...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: I thank Mr. O'Driscoll for that. When we launch this next week we will reiterate that and mention that there is agreement to engage with it. My experience in my constituency is that many people have approached me about processing shellfish and getting involved in seafood for export in the past six months in particular. Regarding the €400 million odd that the harbours are worth and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Mr. O'Driscoll does not know about that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Fair enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Dr. Beamish is saying that in the next capital funding round the Department is considering a breakwater structure potentially for Dunmore East.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: The superlevy payment scheme was announced this morning; I think it was Deputy Fleming who mentioned it. Mr. O'Driscoll is probably aware that myself and Deputy Michael Creed suggested the formation of a dairy forum given the post-quota era we are now in, mainly to governmentally manage the volatility that we all know will affect the dairy industry in the years ahead. My understanding is...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Yes. We have been speaking to a number of people since that suggestion was accepted. The area on which we want the forum to focus and concentrate is the trade element. We think it deserves it, considering that the dairy industry has been locked in a box to a certain extent for the past 30 years and we think that the Government should react accordingly. Every agency and Department within...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) John Deasy: My final question relates to the online publication of the names of recipients of single farm payments, which, effectively, allows everyone to see them. The farming organisations and individual farmers have raised the risks they fear would accrue as a result of the publication of these figures. The Department must take this seriously considering the number of farms that have been subject to...