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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)
Pat Deering: I have a couple of questions for the representatives of Teagasc. I attended a trial farm in my part of the country, and I am sure Dr. O.Mara knows where I am talking about. Teagasc has done a considerable amount of work, in conjunction with others, to develop a suckler-type calf from a dairy cow. Can the witnesses give us more information about that? There is a lot of discussion about the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)
Pat Deering: Are we capable of producing that extra 10% ourselves?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)
Pat Deering: I thank Ms Westbrook. Does Dr. O'Mara wish to respond?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)
Pat Deering: I call on Mr. Mulvihill to conclude. Sorry, Mr. McHugh wishes to contribute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)
Pat Deering: There is considerable food for thought there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)
Pat Deering: We do not get credit for it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)
Pat Deering: At the end of the day, the accounting system is what counts, is it not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)
Pat Deering: On the same issue, I call Mr. Kent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)
Pat Deering: I am sorry for cutting across the witness.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)
Pat Deering: I thank Mr. Mulvihill. This has been an interesting discussion. This has been our third public meeting on the topic of climate change. All of the stakeholders will be involved. We will produce a report in the next few weeks and the delegates will be more than welcome to come back when we launch it. I thank them for coming before the committee and apologise for running so late.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Pat Deering: I thank Mr. Murphy. I apologise for being unavoidably absent for the first part of the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Pat Deering: I ask Mr. Stanley to start by clarifying KPMG's role in the process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Pat Deering: Are the dissatisfied partners equally spread around the country or are they in one particular cluster?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Pat Deering: With regard to the communications process in terms of the 630 partners that Mr. Stanley has written to, when would he have communicated with all those 630 partners previously?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Pat Deering: I asked that question because Mr. Stanley said some letters were returned marked "return to sender".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Pat Deering: The fact that they were returned marked "return to sender" indicates that Coillte had not been communicating when them for a while.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Pat Deering: It is about ten years since Coillte would have communicated in any meaningful way with the vast majority of the partners.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Pat Deering: I am trying to tease this out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Pat Deering: One hundred cases.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Pat Deering: How did Coillte decide the 100?