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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 give you a minute to get organised, Deputy Pringle. Deputy Harrington had indicated. Does he wish to speak?

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 thank Ms Gomes for a clear presentation in which she matched economic and environmental concerns.

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: Before we begin, I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones. I welcome Ms Melanie Gomes from BirdWatch Ireland and thank her forming before the committee today. Ms Gomes wrote to me requesting permission to make a presentation to the committee on the setting of total allowable catches and quotas for 2015 in advance of the Council of the European Union meeting in...

Report on Review of Commonage Land and Framework Management Plan: Motion (3 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I thank my colleague, Deputy Martin Heydon, for stepping in at the beginning of the debate and all Members who spoke for their kind words. Our committee has demonstrated that committees can work in unison and be productive. There is not much point in being here unless one can be genuinely productive. I commend all of the members of the joint committee and thank them for their co-operation...

Report on Review of Commonage Land and Framework Management Plan: Motion (3 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I have two quick queries. One concerns commonages on national parkland. The National Parks and Wildlife Service tends to lease them on ten month rather than five year leases. There was an agreement of five years under REPS. My second query concerns eligible land which is deemed ineligible, but is recoverable. If one is in a commonage management plan next year, rather than have to stack...

Report on Review of Commonage Land and Framework Management Plan: Motion (3 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I am speaking before the Minister.

Report on Review of Commonage Land and Framework Management Plan: Motion (3 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I apologise as I was unavoidably held up this morning and thank Deputy Heydon for moving the motion. I thank all my colleagues on the committee for the preparation of the report. We published this report on 18 July 2013 and had seven meetings. The rationale behind the report was on foot of those draft guidelines published by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. To the...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Private Members' motion and thank the Members of the Technical Group for raising a subject that could easily be pushed into the background and lost in the heat of other matters that come before this House and are of a more pressing nature. In 1999, I was a new councillor and, like Deputy Byrne, we were on the newly formed Eastern Regional Health...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Vessel Licences (24 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: 81. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will raise the issue of the m/v Mary Kate with his EU counterparts, in both Germany and Holland and with the European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, in view of the fact that the owner of the fishing boat, purchased the vessel in Holland, which was certified as being seaworthy by German maritime experts, which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: The budget for the areas of natural constraint should remain intact. When the assessment of biophysical status is carried out, the broader question of how land is divided should be regarded as another argument. The assumption that disadvantaged land can be divided per hectare as a percentage of the national total is a dangerous one. It is most important in the context of today's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Very briefly, Deputy Ó Cuív.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Are there any observations or questions on programme D - direct payments and effective delivery of schemes and services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: As a sub-committee, we welcome the fact that one of our recommendations was actually taken up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: We will move on to programme C - rural economy, environmental and structural changes. It is now 6 p.m. so we have half an hour for this and the next item.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Are there any other questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: We will hear a quick question from Deputy Heydon, and I have another point I wish to raise myself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I will interrupt here. I come from one of the black spot areas, as the Minister is probably aware, where there has been a spike and we have many problems. Clare is possibly another such area. The national average has gone down to approximately four per 1,000, but the average is eight per 1,000 in County Wicklow. Will black spot areas have targeted resources that have been saved from other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I am not saying it is not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: It was identified in the original Vote last year in the budget.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I am anxious that we concentrate on the budget, because we are constrained by time.