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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: Does Mr. Cleary wish to come back in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: Deputy Eamon Ryan has just arrived. I will let him in. His timing is perfect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: Thank you, Deputy Ryan, for your views. I would not agree with all of them but you are entitled to them. Generational renewal is a huge issue that is going to affect us all. We had the European Court of Auditors before our committee discussing two reports it produced, one of them on the young farmer and the other on the rural development programme. A startling statistic is that 1,000...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: We will hear from the meat industry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: Thank you Mr. Condon. Mr. Healy is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: Does Mr. Carroll want to answer that question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: For the Deputy's information, he is part of the biodiversity agriculture soil and management, BASE, farmers' group, which has made a submission to our committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: To be the balance, much work has been done over recent years, whether in livestock, or the beef data and genomics programme, or the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS, which has done a huge amount of work in the last ten to 15 years. The rural environment protection scheme and agri-environment options scheme, AEOS, were before that. All those environmental schemes have made a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: Food Wise 2025 was an initiative of the industry. It was all-encompassing, including the farm organisations, processors, producers and all the rest. Everybody came together and produced that. I mentioned the point before at different meetings about looking at it again. Having said that, from a dairy point of view, a target was a 50% increase in production. We are probably well down that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: True. Deputy Ryan may speak briefly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: I would say the Deputy is on his own.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: A previous committee did a very detailed report on land use about three years ago which feeds into what the Deputy is saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: Does anyone want to wrap up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: There is an ongoing consultation process throughout the country on the Common Agricultural Policy. There is a roadshow, if I can use that phrase, to nearly every part of the country. Everybody is free to attend, whether as individuals or part of an organisation. I have attended two. There is one main issue - the amount of money involved. It is not about the active farmer or anything else...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: I will leave the last word to Mr. Carter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: Deputy Cahill, I just want to wrap up now very shortly and we are not going to get into a discussion about transferring funds from east to west today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: Briefly now, Deputy Ryan, this is your last contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: That is a matter for discussion on another day. I thank our guests for coming before us. This is the second part of a three-part engagement with stakeholders on climate change. We will be producing a report around Easter time. In two weeks' time we will have the final part of the discussion which will consist of two sessions. We will hear from the Environmental Protection Agency in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Services (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: 302. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a psychology assessment. [8146/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Deering: 303. To ask the Minister for Health the reason blister packs of tablets are now only provided by pharmacies for one week which has been reduced from four weeks; if his attention has been drawn to the hardship this causes elderly persons that have no transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8147/18]