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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: I welcome from Bord Bia Ms Tara McCarthy, chief executive, and Mr. Michael Maloney, director, Origin Green. I thank them for coming before us to brief the joint committee on a number of issues, including Origin Green, market diversification, climate change and sustainability. Witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee. However, if they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: I thank Ms McCarthy. Senator Mulherin, Senator Cahill and Deputy Penrose were the first to indicate questions, in that order.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Without cutting across anyone, I have a question about the quality of the feed that has entered the country. For example, there has been much discussion in recent times about the quality and standard of corn coming into the country. What practice does Bord Bia follow to ensure it is of top quality? The delegates referred to quality assured farms in Ireland. Is the same standard applied to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: No problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: There was a question about the beef genomics scheme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Ms McCarthy referred to market prioritisation and the 24 trade shows attended by Bord Bia. How does the organisation decide where its respresentatives go and when, etc?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Deputy Cahill wanted to come back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Before I ask Ms McCarthy to sum up, I wish to make one point. As she probably knows, we produced a report on the tillage sector just before Christmas. It is a sector that is at the crossroads at the moment. We made a number of recommendations in that regard. Some of the recommendations, Nos. 8, 11 and 16 in particular, refer to the part Bord Bia might play in the promotion of some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: No problem. I apologise for the interruption and ask the witnesses to please proceed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Deputy Cahill's-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: I am sorry to cut across, but it is probably a question for the factories also.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: That is really what we are asking, that Bord Bia would be part of a conversation going forward, which could be useful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: That covers all of our questions. I thank the witnesses for a detailed conversation and discussion over the past hour and a half or so. I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee to discuss this very important matter. As this part of the business is concluded, we will suspend for a few minutes before resuming in private session to deal with the matter we were discussing with...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Equipment (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: 135. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if Ireland purchases weapons from Israel; and if so, the amount of money spent in the past five years. [2760/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: 147. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Government's position in relation to Israel and Palestine. [2759/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (18 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) has such a small weekly tax credit. [2393/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (18 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: 326. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in part-time employment is being pursued by Turas Nua. [2409/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Joint Committee (16 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Apologies have been received from Deputy Thomas Pringle. I welcome members back and wish everybody a happy new year. Before I begin, I remind members to make sure their mobile phones are turned off. I propose we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters before returning to public session. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (16 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: The next item is the scrutiny of EU legislative proposals. On schedule A, COM (2017) 645 is a proposal for a Council regulation fixing for 2018 the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, applicable in Union waters and, for Union fishing vessels, in certain non-Union waters. It is proposed that this proposal does not warrant further scrutiny. Is that...