Results 1,701-1,720 of 18,593 for speaker:Michael Creed
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: European Council Meeting: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Dec 2019)
Michael Creed: I am advised that the status of almost half of the stocks is considered unknown or not defined. This is because there are many small stocks and it is not practical to collect the necessary data to have a full assessment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: European Council Meeting: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Dec 2019)
Michael Creed: My information is that the number of sustainably fished stocks went from 32 in 2018 to 35 in 2019 and the number of stocks overfished went from 16 in 2018 to 13 in 2019. There is a reduction in the number of overfished stock and a commensurate increase in the number of sustainably fished stocks. I will get the Deputy a briefing note on it. We might be trading figures back and forth and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: European Council Meeting: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Dec 2019)
Michael Creed: What is BirdWatch Ireland's assertion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: European Council Meeting: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Dec 2019)
Michael Creed: I appreciate and have had engagement with BirdWatch Ireland. We are operating within a Common Fisheries Policy framework which has MSY at its heart in terms of fishing sustainably. That means one is only taking out of the pool that which can be replenished naturally. That advice is given to us by both the Marine Institute and ICES. I appreciate that BirdWatch Ireland has a view on these...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: European Council Meeting: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Dec 2019)
Michael Creed: The point appears to be that if one does not fish the stocks that are available and could be caught sustainably, there will be more there at a future stage. If I can use an agricultural analogy, it seems to be on the basis of if one lives horse, one will get grass a few years hence. The industry needs to survive today, but it must survive in a sustainable way. We base our take on the MSY...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: European Council Meeting: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Dec 2019)
Michael Creed: I appreciate the voice that non-governmental organisations, NGOs, bring to the table, and it has always been about MSY and fishing sustainably. However, it appears that as we move towards that, the request is to move beyond it, if I understand the point being made by the Deputy. If I get to a situation where we are fishing all the stocks that are important to us via MSY, I will go toe to...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: I appreciate the opportunity to present this request for a Supplementary Estimate for 2019. I am seeking the committee's approval for additional funds to contribute to the national funding element for the beef exceptional aid measure; approval to use savings on the Department's Vote to allow for extra expenditure for the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS, and the targeted...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: Selective amnesia, maybe.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: We are here to seek the committee's the approval of the committee for additional funding for the Department. Deputy McConalogue alluded to an underspend. On the contrary, we will require more money to keep the show on the road. We have secured that agreement from the Department of Finance and now seek ratification for that by the committee, which was the case in 2018. For two successive...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: No dealer number will get a payment under this scheme, and we gave that commitment early on.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: I reiterate that no dealer herd number will get a payment under BEAM.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: The Deputy inferred that the person was somehow able to game the scheme.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: No, I stand over what I said. The Deputy seems to suggest that somehow somebody who sold their cattle-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: When those cattle were sold, there was no scheme in place. We were devising a scheme after the fact from September up to May and we were motivated to make sure that farmers got payments, not dealers. There may have been cases where dealers bought cattle and those cattle were sold to a factory under a different herd number. It could not have been the case that they were doing that from...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: The other matter which has raised some concern, which I can understand, is the control of horses. We are all aware that there is understandably and rightly a heightened interest in welfare issues. We operate a scheme that refunds to local authorities the costs they incur under the Control of Horses Act 1996. If a local authority, under its obligations under the Act, incurs expenditure...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: Exactly.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: I can provide the committee with a more detailed note, but that is the case. A fund is available to refund local authorities for services rendered. Not all of that fund has been drawn down. It is as simple as that.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: I do not have all the detail of it here, but my understanding is that we provide local authorities with a refund of up to €375 per horse for actions they have taken.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: That is the maximum funding they can get from us. I can get more details, but we provide €1.14 million and we have spent about €520,000.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: I do not think so. I imagine it is refunded on a rolling basis, on the basis of accounts submitted. I do not think it is a case of everything being spent in the last weeks of the year-----