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- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Charlie McConalogue: In regard to the funding allocation, what was the uptake in comparison with the target?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Charlie McConalogue: The Taoiseach and the Minister, Deputy Creed, announced in early summer that 300 staff would be recruited. This figure was downgraded in September to 116. My recollection is that the staff complement of 116 was primarily focused on veterinary and sanitary and phytosanitary, SPS, officials. I am concerned that there has been little or no action in regard to follow-through in regard to...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Charlie McConalogue: Is that primarily from reassignment?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Charlie McConalogue: We have asked for the breakdown several times but have not got it.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Charlie McConalogue: Is that net recruitment? How much of that is replacement?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Charlie McConalogue: Yes, but how many people have retired or left the system in the same period? What I am trying to get at here is-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Charlie McConalogue: Of course it has to be done as efficiently as possible and we have to ensure all the bases are covered. The point I make, and which I have made on several occasions before, is in the way the Minister and the Government indicated the way it was going to happen. In the front page headlines the day after the Cabinet meeting in Derrynane last year, the Minister told the whole country not to...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Charlie McConalogue: -----and that the Government's own plans were to recruit 1,000 new recruits, 700 of whom were to be Revenue and 300 of whom were to be with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. That was in July but all of a sudden in September, the Minister was a bit more low key when he announced that actually the Government was going to change its mind and that the figure was going to be...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Charlie McConalogue: Headlines and figures were put out there but the Minister did not follow through on it and now he tells us that he is doing it very differently and using different means, be it deployment or other, and a small bit of recruitment.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Charlie McConalogue: It is not about inserting doubt. I am simply holding the Minister to account for what he and his Government had outlined. If he looks back at it the Minister will find that it was very much presented in the context of 29 March and being ready for that.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Charlie McConalogue: It left it at 100%.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Charlie McConalogue: Yes.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Charlie McConalogue: May I make a brief point?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019) Charlie McConalogue: On Deputy Pringle's point, is it possible to have further documentation over the coming days just for information showing the position? There is also the point I made about the 2019 Estimates provided after the budget. Is it possible to have a column on that as well to show if there are any changes between those Estimates and these Revised Estimates?
- Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2019)
Charlie McConalogue: Will the Minister go into more detail about the issue of registration in Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland register? He indicated that to be registered in Northern Ireland one must be assigned to a port there. What does that mean for a boat from the Six Counties in terms of its access to British waters or the six mile zone there? Obviously, the overall number of licences registered...
- Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (28 Mar 2019)
Charlie McConalogue: The Minister has handled this legislation badly over the past couple of years and the past number of weeks in particular. He failed to consult properly with the fishery organisations and that would have remained the case if not for the stance that Fianna Fáil took in insisting that, once the Bill completed Committee Stage in the Seanad, there had to be proper consultation. It was the...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Mar 2019)
Charlie McConalogue: I have a question for the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Jim Daly. It relates to the future of St. Joseph's Community Hospital in Stranorlar as well as Ramelton Community Hospital and Lifford Community Hospital. There was a march last Saturday at which many hundreds of people in the Stranorlar and Ballybofey area came out to march about the lack of prioritisation by...
- Beef Sector: Motion (27 Mar 2019)
Charlie McConalogue: I thank all of the Members who have spoken to and supported the motion. I hope they have contributed to getting the message across to the Minister on the need for action and to follow through on the 14 policy proposals included in the motion. I again thank the ICSA, the Beef Plan movement, the IFA and, in particular, the tremendous delegation from around the country that travelled with them...
- Beef Sector: Motion (27 Mar 2019)
Charlie McConalogue: I move:That Dáil Éireann:notes that: — current beef prices are in the €3.75-€3.85 per kilogram range, which is below the cost of production; — suckler farmers continue to depend on Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) direct payments for their livelihoods, with average incomes just below €13,000 according to Teagasc; — there are 951,397...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (27 Mar 2019)
Charlie McConalogue: 54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the national broadband tender process; when all homes and businesses in County Donegal will have access to high-speed broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14009/19]