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Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Certainty is required but it has not been forthcoming.

Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: We are absolutely in favour of choice. We favour organic products. We also favour commercial agriculture.

Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: I commend the motion to the House. It should find favour with anyone who has the interests of consumers and the agriculture industry at heart.

Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: It was not voted on.

Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Did the Minister of State mention labels? If so it is the first time in her speech she did so.

Written Answers — Food Safety Regulations: Food Safety Regulations (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the level of compliance in the restaurant and catering sector regarding beef labelling; the number of inspections that have been carried out; the number of staff dedicated to this purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24877/07]

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Question 281: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department will provide funding for the provision of flashing amber lights on the road immediately outside all schools as is currently provided for in CLÁR areas by the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. [24870/07]

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Question 365: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the situation regarding grant aid funded by the National Lottery available to local sporting organisations; when the next round of applications will be invited; the funds that are available for allocation under this round; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24873/07]

Written Answers — Food Labelling: Food Labelling (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Question 393: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when country of origin labelling will be extended to pork, chicken and sheep meat; and if she will ensure that substantial transformation will not be used to defeat the purpose of this proposal. [24876/07]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Question 411: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason the farm development service is not processing CFP and DHS grant applications. [25402/07]

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Question 458: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will favourably consider a school transport request by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [24872/07]

Agrifood Industry: Motion (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Even the Minister agrees it needs to be reformed.

Agrifood Industry: Motion (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: The Minister should worry about her own.

Agrifood Industry: Motion (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Does the Minister, Deputy Coughlan, agree?

Agrifood Industry: Motion (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: I move: That Dáil Éireann, noting: the inadequate consumer information offered by the current Irish labelling regime and the Government failure to legislate appropriately; the need to end the labelling abuse which is allowed by the 'substantial transformation' loophole; the legitimate consumer and industry concerns about the continued importation of meat from countries where production...

Agrifood Industry: Motion (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: What we are talking about here is the combined and shared objective of primary food producers and consumers to have food they produce and purchase properly labelled with reliable information regarding safety, origin and nutritional value and other critical information that should rightly be attached to it. In economic terms, we are talking about a beef industry worth in excess of €1.5...

Agrifood Industry: Motion (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Why, within hours of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease involving a single animal on one farm in the UK, did the Minister and her EU colleagues move immediately to ban UK exports of beef to other member states when no such action is deemed necessary in respect of Brazil, where the disease is epidemic? If the UK decided in the immediate future to vaccinate its national herd against foot...

Agrifood Industry: Motion (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: In all of this, the Department has given hostages to fortune in respect of the legitimacy of GM feeds here and must clarify its position on this issue as a matter of urgency. Clean and green and GM feed are not, to my mind, mutually exclusive terms. GM feed has been, and continues to be, a critical component of the food chain here for over a decade. To pretend anything else is dishonest.

Agrifood Industry: Motion (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: I heard the Minister of State's comments at the Anuga fair in Germany where he said that the answer to the Brazilian threat lay in organic production. We favour organic production but if the Minister of State thinks a multi-billion euro industry can turn itself around overnight and not have a GM component in its feed regime, he will put hundreds of thousands of Irish farming families and...

Agrifood Industry: Motion (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: This is no laughing matter.