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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Fisheries Policy: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A meeting took place in Rosmuc last night. The fishermen went along thinking it would be about fishing, better equipment and better opportunities to fish, to find there was nothing about fishing. It was all about getting them out of fishing to do something else in rural development. I share the disgust of the fishermen that this is not where they want to be. Will there be a better deal to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One of the big constraints to expansion in dairying is the issue of getting the land near the milking parlour and the need to make it easy for farmers to swap land. I am given to understand there are a number of financial, fiscal and tax initiatives around such arrangements. Is the Department getting the full co-operation of the Department of Finance to ensure a tax system is in place that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I asked the Department of Finance if some farmers had availed of it and it could not tell me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are finishing with this and not going on to the Estimates?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Everyone would produce up to the maximum possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On the definition of "active farmer", as the Secretary General will know, a complaint made to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht regarding farmers in large parts of the west coast, and even along the south coast and in Waterford and Wicklow, was that they produced too many sheep, which was not sustainable in the long term....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They do not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry, Deputy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I did.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Deputy should have listened to what I was saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The point I made was-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes and what I said was that I understood beet farmers and certain types of beef fatteners received a disproportionate amount in single payments because of the way the mechanism worked. For example, dairy farmers receive less because there were not as many premiums paid. I said I had asked for this information from the Department and that I would stand corrected when I received the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As party spokesperson; I am representing the party.

Other Questions: Sheep Imports (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I submitted two questions, but I received a terse, one-line answer. Will the Minister provide me with a briefing on how the issue stands?

Other Questions: Dairy Sector (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It has a big effect in Cork.

Other Questions: Dairy Sector (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for his answer and look forward to the fair trade legislation, which is urgently needed. As the Minister knows, the Oireachtas committee intends to investigate not only the question of liquid milk, but also the wider issue. It is a major concern. Given the squeeze on liquid milk producers, we might need to import winter milk at some point. This would be a tragedy for...

Other Questions: Dairy Sector (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am disappointed by the Minister's answer on the EU. It was quick to create a plethora of competition law. An effect of competition and below cost selling is that liquid milk producers are being squeezed to the point of not making any money. The EU could very simply introduce legal controls and regulations to avoid this becoming the end result of unbridled capitalism and competition...

Other Questions: Dairy Sector (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No. I am seeking controls.

Other Questions: Dairy Sector (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Under competition law, there are rules against overdominance in the market.

Other Questions: Sheep Imports (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I accept what the Minister of State has said about prices for lowland sheep and lambs. Does he accept there is a crisis in the hill lamb market, that the traditional markets for light lambs do not appear to be open, obviously owing to the bad weather, and that there are very few store buyers in the market? Can the Department take action to deal with the issue with a view to getting a floor...