Results 1,801-1,820 of 5,615 for speaker:Andrew Doyle
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (1 Jul 2014)
Andrew Doyle: The explanatory note states that. We will proceed to head 4.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (1 Jul 2014)
Andrew Doyle: Subsection (7)(a) deals with the new members. Three shall be nominees-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (1 Jul 2014)
Andrew Doyle: I will come back to the Senator. I call Senator O'Keeffe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (1 Jul 2014)
Andrew Doyle: If you look at (a) to (h), they all state "shall be nominated", with the exception of the last one, which is the ministerial provision. It could quite easily be phrased "shall be nominated by the Minister", which would have been the same. What the Senator has in mind is how people are aware of the fact that three places exist.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (1 Jul 2014)
Andrew Doyle: It is quite a small industry, so everybody knows it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (1 Jul 2014)
Andrew Doyle: That is probably in the regulations, Mr. Gleeson.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (1 Jul 2014)
Andrew Doyle: At least one of them shall be representative of the horse racing industry in Northern Ireland. That was the case and still is the case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (1 Jul 2014)
Andrew Doyle: To move on to page 9-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (1 Jul 2014)
Andrew Doyle: That is as far as we can go. The legislation provides that they nominate three.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (1 Jul 2014)
Andrew Doyle: There is a change of Minister to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. That is just clarification.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (1 Jul 2014)
Andrew Doyle: The final piece is about the commencement of the section.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (1 Jul 2014)
Andrew Doyle: Is everybody happy with head 4?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (1 Jul 2014)
Andrew Doyle: We will move to head 5.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (1 Jul 2014)
Andrew Doyle: Thank you, Mr. Gleeson. If members agree, I propose that we go through the heads in that way. We could start discussing Mr. Gleeson's opening statement in general but the relevance of particulars will come up under the appropriate head. Let us take head one first. I am unsure which official wishes to start but perhaps someone could explain the changes and then I will ask if there are any...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (1 Jul 2014)
Andrew Doyle: The marked sections highlight the changes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (1 Jul 2014)
Andrew Doyle: The members are happy with that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (1 Jul 2014)
Andrew Doyle: What is in head No. 3?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (1 Jul 2014)
Andrew Doyle: From the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, I welcome Mr. Brendan Gleeson, assistant secretary, Mr. Dermot Ryan, deputy chief inspector, Mr. Gerry Greally, senior inspector, and Ms Emer McGeogh, assistant principal officer. I thank them for coming before the committee to brief it on the general scheme of the Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014 and to outline the rationale...
- Beef Industry: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2014)
Andrew Doyle: That is a very serious allegation.
- Beef Industry: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2014)
Andrew Doyle: I thank Deputy Ó Cuív for moving the motion. The Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine raised this issue first at the behest of my colleague, Deputy Deering, and asked that we do some work on it. With that in mind, we set about conducting hearings with all stakeholders, including farm organisations, the meat industry, ICOS, Bord Bia and Teagasc. While the issue...