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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Okay, continue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I thank members. There is a long list of questions which shows the significant interest in the issue. If the chairman or CEO wish other officials to respond to questions, they should feel free to do so. I will hand over to the witnesses. We might have supplementary questions later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I remind Deputy Butler that he is under privilege and he should not impugn anyone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: The committee is dealing with the Indecon report and the here and now. There are legacy issues but we must deal with the report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I ask the Deputy to refer to the report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I will allow supplementary questions afterwards.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: While not wanting to discuss the business of the committee, we can do that or we can decide if we want to have further hearings with stakeholders before we do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: No. We agreed that before bringing in any stakeholders, we would invite in the representatives of Bord na gCon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I thank Mr. Meaney for his opening statement and now invite Ms Larkin to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: The first item is the scrutiny of EU legislative proposals. Schedule A includes COM (2014) 558, a proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and the EU Council on veterinary medicinal products. It is proposed that this does not warrant further scrutiny. Is that agreed? Agreed. It is proposed that proposals listed in schedule B do not warrant further scrutiny. These include...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: We will now discuss the Indecon report on Bord na gCon. I welcome the representatives from Bord na gCon: Mr. Phil Meaney, chairman, Ms Geraldine Larkin, chief executive officer, Mr. Michael Murnane, chief finance officer, Mr. Joe Lewins, head of wagering, and Ms Hilary Forde, head of compliance. I thank all of the witnesses for appearing before the joint committee today and remind everybody...

Agriculture Industry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I welcome this opportunity to speak on this Private Members' motion. I wish to clarify that the Pillar 1 single farm payment in Ireland will be reduced by €42 million over a six year period. It has been stated in the House that food and food production are fundamental necessities of living, which means primary producers must always exist. As Deputy Stanley stated yesterday evening,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: (Resumed) Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: What about the consultation and directives?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: (Resumed) Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: To correct the record, it is the Racing Regulatory Body that sets the rules of racing. I think Mr. Gleeson said HRI.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: (Resumed) Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I thought we had better get that one right on the transcripts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: (Resumed) Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Yes; I am coming to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: (Resumed) Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Media rights are something we could consider. The explanatory note in the document states: "[S]ubhead (3) increases the membership of the media rights committee to 5 and permits non-members of HRI to be members of the committee".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: (Resumed) Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: It does allow this and it streamlines. The provision brings the number of members on all the statutory committees of HRI up to five members, or down, whichever is the case. That is precisely what is happening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: (Resumed) Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: We are not trying to pre-empt what the committee will say. I think - and I believe Deputy Heydon will agree with this - there should be a recommendation that if the board is restricted to 12, the standing committees would, where possible, have non-members from the representative organisations as a feed-in and that the chair of each committee would actually be a member of the board and do his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: (Resumed) Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Are we done?