Results 141-160 of 4,109 for speaker:Martin Heydon
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: The Deputy is paraphrasing now-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: The Deputy will not have constituents back here next year who have fallen foul.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: What was the question the Deputy had on funding?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: I am sorry. I just missed the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: Regarding the points made about the CAP and how we support farmers, simplification is very important. I, too, was a child who was threatened, around October time, with Santa not coming, but he always came in December. We are delivering €2 billion of supports to farmers every year and that is not simple. This money comes with conditionality. It is money that needs to be audited. We...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: I will. I am in the committee's hands. Many topics were raised, including GAEC 2, and I agree about the emotion of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: Okay. I am in the Cathaoirleach's hands.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: Who bought it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: The Deputy has the wrong Minister here for the national parks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: I thank the Deputy for raising points on a wide range of topics. I agree with his sentiment of wanting to work together. I want to work with the members of the committee. We will have many ups and downs and many issues that will be challenging for the sector, but we will meet them head-on and try to deal with them as best we can. The Deputy compared ACRES to fixing broken machinery and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: I wish Deputy Cooney well in his term ahead representing the people of Clare. I completely agree with his point on simplification and the red tape and bureaucracy that drive farmers mad in certain circumstances where they are chasing money. My number one approach to CAP, the multi-annual financial framework, MFF, and everything else is to make sure we get the maximum amount of money to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: The clear focus has been on getting people their basic payments first and foremost and resolving the problems with that. On the non-productive payments, the same officials are working through it. We are making progress on that side and we hope to have it resolved and getting payments through as soon as possible, over the summer or in September at the latest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: No, there are two sides of ACRES: the general scheme and the co-operation areas. The most important thing has been getting the basic payment. That average payment has worked out at more than the amount paid to farmers on GLAS. Almost €500 million has been paid to farmers since the beginning of 2023. The non-productive payments will be resolved over the summer and work is continuing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: The Deputy can reassure his constituents in County Clare and beyond that we are doing everything in our power to maintain a ring-fenced budget with the dedicated Pillars 1 and 2 that have served us well. I cannot give any guarantee of what the outcome will look like, but I can tell the Deputy what the Government's priority is. I brought a memo to the Cabinet outlining my priorities on CAP,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: To be clear, I brought forward a five-point plan in my engagement with farm organisations and other key stakeholders. At our summit a few weeks ago, that plan had 30 actions that were all possible measures that could be brought in to address all three elements of the challenge. Since I was appointed at the end of January, I engaged with the TB forum in February, asked the farm organisations...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: I wish the Senator well for the term ahead. It is great to have her as a member of this committee. Her questions demonstrate the very reason we put into the programme for Government a clear commitment to establishing a Cabinet committee on water quality. Chaired by the Taoiseach, it had its first meeting at the end of March. A second meeting is scheduled for the middle of June. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: I thank the Senator. There was lots in her contribution. I answered up to the questions about CAP, did I not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: We are good on the TB point. On a broad point on TB, there is no final set of proposals. I have come to the table with 30 actions under a five-point plan. Not all of those must be implemented. As I explained, we must have a layering effect that makes the pieces of the jigsaw come together. I removed some of those measures as part of ongoing negotiations for the second day of talks, in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: -----of proposals I hope to get agreement on will give that cover and will not leave a hole in the fence for the infection to seep through.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Martin Heydon: I absolutely will.