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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I am an IFA member. Every email I have received over the last few days has been from IFA, ICMSA and breeding society members. They are wondering what the hell happened in that board room that it agreed a scheme that has decimated the breeding index.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Can I ask one very important question as to how this decision came about? There are four IFA members, two members from the ICMSA, the breeders, and a lady from the Department who is secretary to the committee. We do not need to know about the other meetings but before the IFA members went into that meeting, which has been so important and had such an impact on farmers, did they get a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I will move on. I have a question for Dr. Crosson. Who requested Teagasc to develop a new algorithm for calculating the indexes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: We have all heard of this algorithm. I do not know if anyone in the room has seen it. Is it available or can it be released?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: With any algorithm, things fluctuate and change. Dr. Crosson mentioned that pricing changed from 2020 to 2022 and that was fed into the algorithm. I note also that there is a carbon index now, with which I do not fully agree, and a TB resistance index, which is the only positive I can see in all of this. Surely when all of that is fed in, it distorts the index and, at the end of the day,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I agree with Senator Dolan on the communication. It has been chronic. I will read a couple of lines from the Salers Society's its take on all of this. It wrote to the ICBF and stated: Many breeders are reporting that top-performing cows in their herds have not just dropped in the replacement index but have plummeted. These are cows with excellent fertility / calving interval, calving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I ask the ICBF to suspend its decision of 28 November until the stakeholder forum has taken place. The Salers Society is one of the major stakeholders and it did not see this coming. This is not a farmer over the road who has penned a letter here. It is one of the stakeholders with which the ICBF is supposed to have negotiated and spoken over many months. The Salers Society is questioning...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Why have a stakeholder forum if the ICBF is not willing to take it into account? This decision of 28 November should be suspended until this stakeholder forum has taken place. Is that not the prudent way to go?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: In politics, we call it a citizens' assembly. We let it out for a year and we discuss it. The ICBF cannot hold a stakeholder forum after the horse has bolted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: We all know that. I have only 30 seconds remaining and my question has still not been answered. Farmers are questioning the validity of the index. That is what I am questioning. The ICBF is holding a stakeholder forum in the early spring. Why not suspend for eight or nine weeks, or whatever that interval is, until the stakeholder forum has been held? Why would the Salers Society or the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: The stakeholders who have joined the ICBF board just seem to be nodding their heads anyway.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 13. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions he has taken to support the just transition process since 27 June 2020. [55614/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 39. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions taken to support and strengthen the aviation sector since 27 June 2020; the priorities for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55616/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 100. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the actions taken to support and strengthen the tourism sector since 27 June 2020; the priorities for 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55615/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in each county currently in receipt of the carer’s support grant, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55588/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Priorities (12 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 85. To ask the Taoiseach his main policy and legislative priorities for 2024. [55216/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Priorities (12 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 107. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his main policy and legislative priorities for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55208/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Priorities (12 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his main policy and legislative priorities for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55206/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Priorities (12 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 193. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his main policy and legislative priorities for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55203/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Priorities (12 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his main policy and legislative priorities for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55218/23]