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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I know but that is allowed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We would have been available in June if the Minister came in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: My first question is as follows. The Minister said the value of Ireland's food and drink exports grew by 4% during 2014 and was €3.2 billion higher than 2009. Perhaps he would develop on that theme. Was that caused by volume or price increases? The second issue is germane to this debate. What policy decisions, particularly those in regard to expenditure, had most effect in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Presumably when the Minister was drawing up that programme and getting approval from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform he had to give a detailed breakdown of what is involved in that. Presumably there is quite an amount of detail. For example, the names of piers have been mentioned down to that kind of micro detail. Can the Minister give us a copy of the micro detail since...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister send on that information rather than go into detail on it now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: They were my three questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I did not say value. We know that if the Minister is saying it is €3.2 billion, that is money. I want to know what created the extra money, was it extra volume or increased prices?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Increased prices include, of course, currency exchanges over which we have no control. The Minister has not got the data there. He should come back with that analysis. Furthermore-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The question was which elements in the €1 billion the Minister is spending are the ones that created-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is due to prices.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: If the Minister could give me how much is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: -----because of product development, how much is because of currency fluctuations, how much is because of price and how much is because of volume, it would be very useful information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I asked a question before that. I asked whether the expansion in dairy was due to extra production per hectare or people changing from one enterprise to another and, if it is the second, what effect that will have on the other industries.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The areas of natural constraint scheme is neutral on a full-year basis because the Department has tied the balance up before Christmas. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a cashflow issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I have a quick supplementary question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I accept the Minister's point about the European schemes. However, marine capital expenditure is the same as roads expenditure in that the Minister controls it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes. Can the Minister give details of what he has allocated for the projects that are proceeding?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Rossaveal has planning. Is the Minister going straight to tender now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Sep 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Does the Minister envisage it in 2016 in celebration of Padraig Mac Piarais and Connemara?