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Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: Where will Deputy Coonan run?

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, knows the facts.

Other Questions: Beef Industry (12 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: Explain it.

Other Questions: Beef Industry (12 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister does not recognise the elephant in the room. I know he cannot directly interfere but even though I was part of a previous Government, I know that successive Governments failed spectacularly to deal with the cartels in the beef industry and this Government is no different. The Minister talks about the Competition Authority and said that it wrote to him twice. It did because it...

Other Questions: Beef Industry (12 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: Deal with the cartels.

Other Questions: Beef Industry (12 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: It does exist.

Other Questions: Beef Industry (12 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: Regularly - I happen to be involved in the industry.

Other Questions: Beef Industry (12 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: That is not what they are telling me. I am very concerned because the Minister said the Competition Authority wrote to him. It raided the IFA offices some years ago when it was seen in a blaze of glory taking on the factories and checking out what was going on there. I am checking the prices the Government is publishing. The Competition Authority has failed spectacularly in other areas....

Other Questions: Beef Industry (12 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 6. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures his Department is willing to take to safeguard the income of beef farmers in the event that the current negotiations with the meat processing industry break down without agreement on a sustainable and fair price for beef produce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42988/14]

Other Questions: Beef Industry (12 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister heard me raising this issue with the Taoiseach when he was present. I am very concerned about how farmers are being treated by the cartels, as Deputy Martin Ferris noted, and by what the Minister just said about dealing with the issues on which we can make some progress. That is to throw in the towel before he even starts. I ask the Minister to outline what he will do to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fish Farming (12 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: Not yet.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety (12 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 20. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail the measures his Department has taken to tackle the issue of farm safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42989/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Installation (12 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 164. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that water meters which were put in place in the Mullinahone-Drangan areas of south Tipperary during recent water mains rehabilitation works, are been taken out and replaced by Irish Water; the cost of replacing same; if these meters needed to be replaced, as they have only...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on the Bill and I thank the Technical Group for that opportunity. One must welcome the individual efforts, however meagre, made in the budget by the Minister. I welcome the increase in child benefit, although it is from €130 to 135 a month, in the living alone allowance and the partial restoration of the Christmas bonus. Those...

Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: Seeing as the Taoiseach is in musical note today with his few puns, does he have a tune or a couple of notes to give the farmers protesting at how their industry is being treated by the meat industry? I am delighted the Minister, Deputy Coveney, is here. Under the Competition (Amendment) Act, is there any possibility of some respect for the primary producers? We have agriculture 2020 and...

Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: I am speaking about the Competition (Amendment) Act. Will the Taoiseach do something? Will he meet the farmers and play a tune with them? They are not in very good humour to do a harmony because-----

Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister is not doing anything for them. Round-table talks have done nothing.

Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: Can we have a freagra or a tune?

Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: Why is he the Minister for Defence as well? He has enough to do with agriculture.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Eligibility (11 Nov 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance the reasons beneficiaries of changes made to agricultural relief under capital acquisitions tax must spend not less than 50% of their normal working time farming agricultural property; his views that the percentage is arbitrary and unworkable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43118/14]