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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Engagement with EU Commissioner Mr. Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: Low and hard, I would suggest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Engagement with EU Commissioner Mr. Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: Kilkenny lads are normally slow the first time. We know they are not the second time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Engagement with EU Commissioner Mr. Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: I thank the committee members and apologise for rushing them. We are under a bit of time pressure. I thank the Commissioner for coming before the committee today, the third occasion in the last year and half that he has done so. It is obviously an opportune time with the multi-annual financial framework, MFF, being announced next week. Towards the end of May, the legislative proposals are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Business of Joint Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: We will commence in public session. Apologies have been received from Senators Paul Daly, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, Maura Hopkins and Grace O'Sullivan. Before we begin I remind members and those in the Public Gallery to make sure their mobile phones are completely turned off please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Engagement with EU Commissioner Mr. Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: We are here to discuss agriculture and rural affairs with Commissioner Phil Hogan. I welcome the Commissioner here to this joint meeting of the Joint Committee of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development. I am joined by Deputy Joe Carey, Chairman of the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development. The officials, Mr. Kiely, head of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Engagement with EU Commissioner Mr. Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: I thank Deputy Carey. I now ask the Commissioner to make his opening statement. Perhaps he can address those questions while doing so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Engagement with EU Commissioner Mr. Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: I thank the Commissioner for his overview of the situation. As our time is limited, I ask Members to be concise and to the point. As Chairman of the Committee on European Union Affairs, I ask Deputy Michael Healy-Rae to comment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Engagement with EU Commissioner Mr. Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: We will take four questions together, if the Commissioner does mind.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Engagement with EU Commissioner Mr. Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: I am sure Mr. Hogan is quite capable of lumping them together. I call Deputy McConalogue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Engagement with EU Commissioner Mr. Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: I now call on Commissioner Hogan and ask him to be as brief as possible although there is a number of issues to be addressed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Engagement with EU Commissioner Mr. Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: I thank the Commissioner. There is approximately 20 minutes left so we should be as brief as possible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Engagement with EU Commissioner Mr. Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: There are two key issues. On the question of the simplification of the Common Agricultural Policy, despite all the reviews there have been in the past 30 or 40 years, it has not got much simpler. What commitments can the Commissioner give us that it will be simplified this time? On a more sombre note, farm safety is a key issue right around Europe and we have experienced lots of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Engagement with EU Commissioner Mr. Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: We are not allowing conversation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Engagement with EU Commissioner Mr. Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: I remind members that we are not having conversation here now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Engagement with EU Commissioner Mr. Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: Sorry, we must get the Commissioner to conclude.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Engagement with EU Commissioner Mr. Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: If there is a minute left when the Commissioner is finished, I will let you back in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Engagement with EU Commissioner Mr. Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: I invite the Commissioner to continue, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Engagement with EU Commissioner Mr. Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: Thank you very much, Commissioner.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Engagement with EU Commissioner Mr. Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: Low and hard, I would suggest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Engagement with EU Commissioner Mr. Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)
Pat Deering: Kilkenny lads are normally slow the first time. We know they are not the second time.