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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Very quickly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: There must be clarification of the €180 million fine. There was considerable optimism about the beef round-table process but it appears to have run into a mire. Perhaps people are spinning but we need a genuine commitment from all sides to the beef industry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: We asked that, once the draft plan's consultation period was over, the officials would brief the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: The Deputy's telephone is on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: As I said earlier, the second half of the meeting will be on the sub-committee's report, so I shall ask members to be as succinct as possible. Perhaps we could limit our questions or comments to three minutes each, because we have a substantial agenda to get through.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (10 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I refer to EU scrutiny proposals. It is proposed that the proposals listed in Schedule B do not warrant further scrutiny. Is that agreed? Agreed. Schedule A is a proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on fixing an adjustment rate for direct payments provided in Council Regulation No. 73/2009 in respect of the calendar year 2014. It is proposed that this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I welcome the Minister and his officials and I thank them for appearing. The Minister will brief the committee on two items, the agenda for the Agriculture and Fisheries Council next week and his views on the sub-committee on fisheries report on promoting sustainable rural coastal and island communities. The Minister has an hour and three quarters and I will try to divide the time equally...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land (Resumed): European Commission (5 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: The representatives have done so, and I thank them very much. This discussion is available to the public. While very glib or simplistic comments are sometimes made about targets or figures, what we are trying to do is put a little more context into broader explanations of what this discussion is about. I hope this morning's discussion has been useful for the representatives, as it has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land (Resumed): European Commission (5 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: That is extremely interesting. Ireland has an afforestation programme. I understand that other countries in northern Europe may already have achieved their targets in the context of land use and land cover. We have not done so and we would be very keen to see mitigation in the context of our climate change obligations vis-à-visour Food Harvest 2020 targets in order that we might...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land (Resumed): European Commission (5 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Does anyone from the Directorate General for Climate Action wish to comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land (Resumed): European Commission (5 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I thank Mr. Wehrheim. The information with which we have been provided is going to prove important in the context of our report. I wish to point out that some members have been obliged to leave the meeting in order to attend proceedings in the Dáil and Seanad, which is our Upper House. The fact that three areas of the Commission, namely, the environment, agriculture and climate, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land (Resumed): European Commission (5 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: Mr. Haniotis mentioned something interesting earlier regarding knowledge transfer being mandatory. He mentioned research and making the knowledge transfer mandatory. I presume this has to do with the green Common Agricultural Policy measures and incentives and various schemes, such as the environmental schemes, whereby it is intended an environmental gain is achieved. I presume it means...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land (Resumed): European Commission (5 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: The agenda of today's meeting is land use and maximising its usage and potential. The concern is that hydraulic fracturing, if it were to go ahead, could have a knock-on impact on the environment in an area that has Natura sites and agricultural land. I appreciate the delegates may not have been expecting a question on fracking but the issue is the environmental impact on farming or land use.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land (Resumed): European Commission (5 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I appreciate that Mr. Barrett was not prepared but it was in the context of land use.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land (Resumed): European Commission (5 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: We are discussing maximising land use and how we farm on land that has a high environmental value. What we are talking about in Pillar 2 is rewarding the public good, in so far as we farm the land in an environmentally friendly way and are doing something to offset, within the national context perhaps, more intensive farming which has greater challenges to meet some of the other greening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land (Resumed): European Commission (5 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I thank Mr. Haniotis. I will now ask committee members to pose questions to the delegation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land (Resumed): European Commission (5 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: I welcome the members from European Commission. I shall first introduce the members of DG Agriculture: Mr. Tassos Haniotis, Mr. Pierre Bascou, Mr. Andreas Gumbert, Ms Viki Palotai and Ms Christiane Canenbley. I cannot see everyone on the screen but they are all present. We are also joined by three more officials.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land (Resumed): European Commission (5 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: My name is Andrew Doyle and I am Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine. I thank the delegation for their attendance, on behalf of the committee members. During the course of the meeting the members will make contributions and I shall introduce them to the delegation. I thank everyone for their co-operation this morning and for facilitating a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Appointments to State Boards (5 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: 77. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the appointment of the Society of Chartered Surveyors of Ireland Admissions Board has been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24014/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (5 Jun 2014)

Andrew Doyle: 126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify for taxi drivers who enter their destination to their satellite navigation software on their smart phones whether the automatic data updates for route information received during their journeys is prohibited as being data access while driving under the new legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....