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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I welcome the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Simon Coveney and his officials. I thank the officials for the briefing material. I advise members, the Minister and officials that they must turn off their mobile telephones. As members will have seen, the Revised Estimate for 2015 was presented to the Dáil in the new programme-based format. This means that the...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: It covered all the areas. I understand the Minister has to conclude here in an hour. We have four programmes plus the administrative programme so if we want to go through subheads we can do so but we will only have approximately 15 minutes per subhead. I ask everybody to confine their comments to questions and I suggest three minutes each for the opening contributions.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I call Deputy Willie Penrose.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: That is a good analogy.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Deputy Ferris, do you want to wait for the Minister to answer or have you some questions you would like to ask?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: There is a good bit of common ground on the green, low-carbon, agri-environment scheme, GLAS, on CEDRA in particular, and on knowledge transfer and farm safety. There is no provision this year for the locally-led environment schemes. Will they even be opened for application? Regarding knowledge transfer and the beef technology adoption programme, BTAP, I have been told by people who are...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I apologise for interrupting, but I wish to make a point of clarification. The Minister made the key point that the GLAS plan identifies what can be achieved. I am concerned that if a farmer submits an application on 15 May which contains the achievable figure instead of the current figure, he or she will be liable for penalties. If the farmer signs up to a GLAS plan for the land, will he...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I think that Teagasc is getting up to €800 per participant.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Perhaps we could get clarity on that.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: It was the other way. It came directly as a payment.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: If a farmer is participating in one, €200 extra is payable to the standard client fee. If a farmer is participating in two it goes from €345 up to €530. Teagasc gives options to its clients on the client payment costs. Then the payment is made. There needs to be some streamlining.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Finally Minister.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I thank the Minister and his officials for their engagement with us. It has been comprehensive. The Minister's response to lengthy questions was 45 minutes, with comprehensive answers to each and every question asked.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Message to Dáil (24 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2015: Vote 30 - Department Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Accommodation Provision (24 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: 345. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an outline of the projects undertaken, thus far, as part of the strategic courts project, under the Government infrastructure stimulus programme of 2012; and if she will provide an outline of further court house new builds, and-or refurbishments, due to be delivered under this programme. [8206/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Accommodation Provision (24 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: 346. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to include County Wicklow as part of any public private partnership project, under the Government infrastructure stimulus programme 2012, or any subsequent programmes, for the purpose of courthouse refurbishments, in order to allow the Courts Service to complete plans, under the strategic courts project; and if she will make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (17 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Before we hear from our witnesses, I want to discuss EU legislative proposals that are before us. It is proposed that the proposals listed in Schedule B - COM (2014) 613, COM (2014) 614, COM (2014) 690, COM (2014) 695, COM (2014) 696 and COM (2014) 697 - do not warrant further scrutiny. Is this agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Discussion (17 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I welcome Mr. Jerry Early, Mr. James O'Toole, Mr. Enda Conneely and Mr. John Walsh from the Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation. I thank them for coming before the committee today to brief it on the progress being made on the recommendations in the report of the Oireachtas Joint Sub-Committee on Fisheries on promoting sustainable rural coastal and island communities. By virtue of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Discussion (17 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Mr. Early said he had four of the recommendations. Does he wish to go through them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Discussion (17 Feb 2015)

Andrew Doyle: By way of background, the committee has already completed a number of reports during its term and felt that rather than undertaking additional reports, it should revisit previous reports to see what progress had been made in relation to the implementation of the recommendations therein. The report before us is the first chosen in that regard. Our aim is to see if we can assist in its...