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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I remind the Deputy that they have always been at odds. It has not really mattered what Government was in place. Let us be frank here. We put questions that can be answered by the representatives from BIM. The Deputy has asked a political question on which we can only speculate. I have given everybody latitude and I ask the Deputy not to abuse it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I wish to make a few comments at this stage. If the marine harvest forum initiated last year is to be implemented and if targets are to be set, as has happened with Food Harvest 2020, that forum should provide an opportunity for discussion and dialogue to take place. Other members also had questions. Deputy Ó Cuív had questions and Deputy McNamara apologised for having to leave,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I cannot quantify what is being talked about here. Are these different jobs, related jobs or jobs in different sectors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Andrew Doyle: If in the application, one's pitch is for €12 million, that would leverage in the order of €20 million of an investment. That is just going on the previous figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Reference was made to €93,000 and approximately €140,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Andrew Doyle: The co-funding bit of it which goes through the rural development programme, RDP, and Leader is very important. The programme offers an extra bit of flexibility.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2013: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (24 Mar 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I thank the witnesses for their attendance, presentation and answering many questions from what I think they will accept was a small number of very informed members. We had a forthright engagement in which the witnesses engaged fully. We must accept they answered every question put. Perhaps not every answer was to the satisfaction of members in so far as there are differences in viewpoints...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Youth Justice Strategy (24 Mar 2015)

Andrew Doyle: 422. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide funding for a Garda youth diversionary project (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12112/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector and Annual Report 2013: Teagasc (10 Mar 2015)

Andrew Doyle: We will resume in public session. I welcome from Teagasc Professor Gerry Boyle, director, and Dr. Tom O'Dwyer, head of dairy knowledge transfer. I thank them both for appearing before the committee to discuss the annual report and also the potential difficulties and price volatility facing the dairy sector. Before we begin I wish to inform the witnesses that, by virtue of section 17(2)(l)...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector and Annual Report 2013: Teagasc (10 Mar 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I thank Professor Boyle for his detailed submission. I will now invite questions from committee members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector and Annual Report 2013: Teagasc (10 Mar 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Senator Paschal Mooney, Deputy Tom Barry, Senator Michael Comiskey and Deputy Martin Heydon also wish to speak, after which I may have some points to make if they have not already been made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector and Annual Report 2013: Teagasc (10 Mar 2015)

Andrew Doyle: In fairness, the date is outside the director's control. However, we need to be cognisant of it as an issue. We are all aware of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector and Annual Report 2013: Teagasc (10 Mar 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Deputy Ó Cuív raised one other point which I have discussed with Professor Boyle on previous occasions. I refer to the recruitment embargo and Teagasc's ability, or lack thereof, to hire staff who can pay for themselves.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector and Annual Report 2013: Teagasc (10 Mar 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I think the Senators are under time pressure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector and Annual Report 2013: Teagasc (10 Mar 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I will turn back to the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector and Annual Report 2013: Teagasc (10 Mar 2015)

Andrew Doyle: The issue of the total cost involves a mindset people need to grasp. An old concept which might have been used by ACOT was that of standard man days. Using it, one could very easily calculate the amount of time involved and extrapolate from it the actual cost of production, even on mixed-use farms, irrespective of the set-up. It may be an old principle, but it is certainly applicable. I...

Topical Issue Debate: Film Industry Development (5 Mar 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I thank the Minister of State and appreciate he was reading from a script prepared by the office of the Minister, Deputy Kelly. Unfortunately, its last phrase reads "no plans to reduce the planning fees at this time". What I am asking is that this item of infrastructure be treated in a different way. I do not accept it is as onerous to process an application for a film studio as it is to...

Topical Issue Debate: Film Industry Development (5 Mar 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for selecting this issue for debate. Most people will agree with me that County Wicklow is the headquarters of the film industry in Ireland. For more than 40 years, Ardmore Studios in Bray was the Lone Ranger in the provision of studio facilities. In more recent times, larger studios have been opened in Ashford by Ashford Studios, which was set up by...

Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I thank my colleagues for affording me speaking time. I wish to register my support of the intent of this legislation which is long overdue. I was away on parliamentary business so I have not prepared a written contribution. A former school mate of mine is in the Visitors Gallery. It was only when he approached me that I came to realise the impact and import of this lack of recognition and...

Children and Family Relationships Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Like other speakers, I commend the Bill and congratulate the Minister on bringing it forward. It is fair to say it is of benefit to the framing of the Bill that the Minister spent time as Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. I certainly believe that has given a breadth and depth to it that maybe would not have been possible otherwise. It is hugely reforming in the same way that the...