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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: On that point, was there any reference to that in the Smith & Williamson report? I must confess I am not aware of it.

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 thank the officials for attending this meeting and for their presentations and for responding to questions. I hope members and non-members understand that I am bound by what the general scheme entails. There are questions which, whether I want them answered or not, I cannot permit to be answered here. That concludes our proceedings.

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: Just to be clear, the Deputy can ask whether a change can be made, but he cannot make a recommendation here today.

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 rule the Deputy's first question out of order because the number of meetings held is not part of the general scheme of the Bill. His question has nothing to do with the purpose of today's meeting. He can ask Departmental officials a question through other channels, but not here.

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 have accommodated the Deputy and did so in good spirit. However, his query is outside the realm and responsibility of this committee's role and function.

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: The Deputy has strayed outside the role of this committee. Other members of the committee have stuck to the task of scrutinising the general scheme.

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: The Deputy is being creative with his arguments. His question is not really appropriate. We have an Indecon report looking at the whole industry. I accept the Deputy's question on consultation and directives, in which he sought for their meaning to be clarified. We are dealing with the general operational rules of racing, which is the overarching direction that racing should take as a...

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 discussing the general scheme.

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 do not agree. We are here to discuss the general scheme of this Bill.

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: Deputy Willie Penrose had questions about the power and influence of 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: That is a point but the witnesses have responded as they see it. It is not proposed to do that in the legislation.

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 is as good a time as any to clarify that point. We will finalise this matter soon as we are under a certain amount of pressure. We intend filing a report on all the contributions and although we have not yet concluded, we will make some recommendations. We do not have to do so but it will happen. What will be the status of the report when it hits the desks in the Department?

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: Senator O'Neill raised an issue.

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 remind members, witnesses and people in the Visitors Gallery to turn off their mobile phones. From the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine I welcome Mr. Brendan Gleeson, assistant secretary, Mr. Dermot Ryan, deputy chief inspector, Mr. Gerry Greally, senior inspector, Ms Emer McGeough, assistant principal, and Ms Jane Dempsey, assistant principal. I thank the witnesses for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Total Allowable Catches and Quotas for 2015 under Common Fisheries Policy: BirdWatch Ireland (7 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: The point being made is that everybody buys into conservation. What is needed is trust and the establishment of relationships. Deputy Ferris highlighted the matter of the oysters. There must be buy-in, and it is the same in any sector - for example, greenhouse gas reduction in the agriculture sector. There must be trust. If the evidence says stocks are depleted and need to be conserved,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Total Allowable Catches and Quotas for 2015 under Common Fisheries Policy: BirdWatch Ireland (7 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Deputy Harrington, did the Marine Institute, in Ireland, play a role in gathering the information and is that information fed back to the Irish authorities and the EU Commission? How is that data communicated?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Total Allowable Catches and Quotas for 2015 under Common Fisheries Policy: BirdWatch Ireland (7 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Is there a way to short-circuit that? One of the recommendations of the sub-committee in its report was that impact data should be made available. If there is information that supports drift net fishing or heritage licences, as referred to by Deputy Ferris, and these were to be permitted on a trial basis the impact data should be made available. Fish numbers in every river, particularly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Total Allowable Catches and Quotas for 2015 under Common Fisheries Policy: BirdWatch Ireland (7 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Ms Gomes has plenty of comments, observations and questions to which to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Total Allowable Catches and Quotas for 2015 under Common Fisheries Policy: BirdWatch Ireland (7 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: He said we should adopt a proactive approach to oysters. He also said he had serious reservations about how oysters were collected, that more work needed to be done on the quality of gear used and wondered whether stocks of juvenile oysters should be taken or discarded.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Total Allowable Catches and Quotas for 2015 under Common Fisheries Policy: BirdWatch Ireland (7 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I will let you come back in at the end.