Results 161-180 of 1,995 for speaker:Joe Flaherty

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: In relation to the investigation the Department has begun regarding the breakdown of thoroughbred and sport horse stock, can it provide a breakdown on the passports that were discovered in that plant? Are we looking at 50% or-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Yes. AT the Shannonside Foods plant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: In the limited time remaining, I have two questions for Mr. Sheahan. When does he believe there will be an appropriate and approved Department equine slaughter facility available in Ireland? In the absence of such a facility, what additional safeguards, if any, have been put in place regarding equine transportation for slaughter?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I know there have been four, but it is obviously critical for the sector that we have a slaughter facility. It is critical for animal welfare.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: When are we going to have that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Clearly, it is not as regulated as slaughtering cattle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Obviously, the Department has heard about the issues with passports. I have raised it previously. As the Department's legal official here, is Mr. Sheahan satisfied with the stud book breeding contract that was renewed for a second year, given that we still have certain inadequacies in relation to the management of the stud book?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I had hoped for a more robust response from the Department. Given its commitment to the comprehensive review and “reform of oral healthcare services, including legislative reform, as set out in the national oral health policy”, I would have expected the Department to be much more stringent in its terms and specifically set out...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I raise the case of a successful County Longford businesswoman who has endured an unrelenting nightmare since she underwent what was meant to be a root canal procedure in May 2019. It left her with permanent injury that will require treatment and medication for the rest of her life, but that is not the worst of it. The worst is the absolute failure of any regulatory body, in this case the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (26 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I did clarify earlier that I was not going to do so. The same dentist is involved in numerous High Court and Circuit Court cases relating to allegations of negligence in the provision of medical care. To date, my constituent and I are unaware of any actions or sanctions by the Dental Council against this dentist. In fact, a letter from the Dental Council of October 2023 clearly stated it...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: We have had seven months of uncertainty and disquiet for staff, service users and family members of service users at St. Christopher’s Services in Longford. Figures have been bandied over and back with the HSE. We have been assured that a new funding structure is to be put in place. At the moment, they are running the service with a shortfall of at least €140,000 per month....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Review: Discussion (25 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the witnesses and apologise for missing the opening statement. I was in the Chamber. Needless to say, I am come at this from a pronounced rural perspective. I am particularly concerned at what appears to be the exclusion of the National Association of Regional Game Councils, NARGC, from the process to date. I am fielding multiple calls about it in my constituency. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Review: Discussion (25 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Being from rural Ireland, I am very aware of our game councils. There is nobody more passionate about conservation and wildlife than our game councils. These are people who live and breathe rural Ireland every day of the week. Will the witnesses give me a cast-iron assurance that NARGC will have a place at the stakeholder forum equal and on a par with any other agency on that and have the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Review: Discussion (25 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I will take Mr. Ó Donnchú's commitment at face value. What the game councils tell me is that to date, they have had five meetings with the Minister of State, and I am conscious he is probably sitting behind me at the minute-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Review: Discussion (25 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: -----and I have an excellent working relationship with the Minister of State but the game councils tell me he has had 50 meeting with environmental NGOs. It is very important, given the role NARGC has played in the cultivation, development, safeguarding and underpinning of values in rural Ireland. Our new Taoiseach said he would underpin everything that happens in rural Ireland as a key...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Review: Discussion (25 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I appreciate the Chair's indulgence. I appreciate we are into a new consultation period with regard to the licensing issue and I would add the same caveat to that, which is that it is absolutely sacrosanct that NARGC is included in that process and that any contributions it makes are given the same weighting as any other organisation. There certainly is a view out there in the game council...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Review: Discussion (25 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I will make a point of clarification before asking dhá cheist. I appreciate and empathise with the work the NPWS is doing. I see it at first hand on a local project. The Chair will agree that, the longer we stay in this job, the more cynical and sceptical we tend to get, so the witnesses will understand I am framing my question’s wording from that stance. I ask them to put...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Review: Discussion (25 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Good. I am satisfied with that response. I listened with interest to the comments about how important it was that everyone in our communities be involved, including farmers. I am particularly interested in Dr. Bleasdale’s work and I applaud his efforts to date. We do not have a Conor Pass in Longford, but we do have an Inchcleraun, an historic island in the middle of Lough Ree....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Review: Discussion (25 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Perfect. I thank Mr. Ó Donnchú.