Results 141-160 of 1,995 for speaker:Joe Flaherty

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Statement of Strategy 2023-2026: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (3 Jul 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Specifically the forestry programme. It was a blue chip launch for the Department. It is clearly not garnering momentum and there are issues with it. At some stage, one will have to say it is not working.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Statement of Strategy 2023-2026: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (3 Jul 2024)

Joe Flaherty: We can conclude on forestry. We are not purposely talking down the forestry programme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Statement of Strategy 2023-2026: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (3 Jul 2024)

Joe Flaherty: We are relaying the issues that people are telling us. It is not a phantom conspiracy. We will go back to horse welfare and the Brexit adjustment funding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Statement of Strategy 2023-2026: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (3 Jul 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I am happy if Mr. Gleeson comes back about the issues raised, maybe in a written response to me.

Tackling All Forms of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (3 Jul 2024)

Joe Flaherty: There have been two cases before the courts in recent weeks which have brought the issue of gender-based violence into focus once more and have shone a light on our ineffectiveness in dealing with the issue and supporting victims. The sad reality is that while both cases were high-profile, in the weeks and days that followed those acts of violence and degradation, several other women have...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (2 Jul 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 277. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address an issue in respect of participants on CE schemes being levied with a higher PRSI contribution (details supplied). [27846/24]

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I have a vested interest in ensuring we have safeguards in place for older people. We are, thanks to advances in medicine and the tireless efforts of staff in the HSE, living a lot longer. We want to continue living in our own homes and our own communities. We want to be surrounded by siblings and grandchildren. That is the least anyone can aspire to in a modern and progressive Ireland. ...

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I join my colleague in commending the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, on her steadfast commitment in this area. I know it has been the defining principle of her career to date. She has put the care, protection and well-being of our elderly and the people who made this country what it is to the forefront of her raison d'être in political life and she is to be commended on that. She...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I am conscious of my time. The Department was aware of the shed and that it was part of the operation, because the animals came into it on the previous evening. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I know it is not part of the lairage but there would be an obvious expectation and understanding that the building was part of the slaughter chain. If that was the first point where the horses come in, surely somebody in the Department, during the lifetime of this horrendous operation, should have checked? Ultimately, two bodies are responsible for this - Shannonside Foods and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: That is great hindsight but, on reflection, does Mr. Sheahan think that if he had gone and looked inside that building when he visited the plant three years ago, he could have averted what happened?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I know, but Mr. Sheahan was aware that the horses were coming from that building. I cannot understand why nobody ever suggested looking inside the building.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: We have a vote coming and we have the other two bodies here. I understand and we have seen from the Committee of Public Accounts that the other two bodies probably do not have that much of regulatory or enforcement input in respect of what happened. However, they do have a major responsibility with regard to passports. Horse Sport Ireland will know that this has been a hobby horse of mine...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the witnesses for coming here today. I will try not to go back over old ground. The Chair already referred to the most startling point in Mr. Sheahan's opening statement. This is the admission that nobody ever visited the building where most of this took place. It is cloaked, to some degree, by saying it was not part of the lairage, but it was covered by general animal welfare...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Our apologies again for the delay. We can blame democracy. I will come back to the thorny issue of passports. We are told that anything up to three and four foals were sold last year without a passport. Obviously, this raises questions about equine traceability. A question was put to Mr. Sheahan earlier in relation to the number of horses in Ireland that do not have passports. Can he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Hypothetically, these are 200 animals that be gone into the ether.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: They could be gone into the ether where, for example, a farmer is destitute and has a foal that has no passport and that he is then just going to get rid of. Hypothetically, that animal is going to go unchecked somewhere.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Have all the breeders received their foal kits for this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: That is my information from breeders. I will send Mr. Duggan an email with details for that large number tomorrow.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: It can technically be sold but it will not change hands. It can be sold pending the passport but probably will not change hands or the breeder will not get his or her money.