Results 81-100 of 1,310 for speaker:Shane McEntee

Animal Diseases (14 Jun 2012)

Shane McEntee: We have already dealt with a question on TB testing. It is crucial to go through it again. As long as I can remember - I have been farming since I was 14 years of age - TB has been the scourge of every farmer. Given the lowest levels on record were achieved in 2011, we need to put every effort into the eradication of TB. We were delighted to receive telephone calls two months ago about...

Animal Diseases (14 Jun 2012)

Shane McEntee: I agree with what Deputy Moynihan has said about flexibility. Regardless of the decisions we make, we should stand by them. We cannot have an open-ended approach even if there is a roadway or a field of barley between the farms, or if the four-month or six-month rule applies. One has to do the whole lot together. Reference has been made to wildlife. In the 1960s, there were approximately...

Animal Diseases (14 Jun 2012)

Shane McEntee: There is nothing in place in relation to TB in that regard. Although I am a farmer, I think we have to be ruthless when we make decisions. Deputy Moynihan referred to suckler farmers. Regardless of whether we provide for four months or six months, we need to be ruthless. There should not be an open-ended approach on the part of the farmer, the vet and the Department. If these are the...

Food Industry (14 Jun 2012)

Shane McEntee: This is a very good subject. When I read the Irish Farmers' Journal today, I was not quite shocked to read that this country imports €3 billion worth of food every year. Someone said to me that if we all ate Irish chickens, we could employ an additional 1,300 people. It is not good enough that we import such an amount of food. I believe the Irish agri-food sector is well positioned to...

Food Industry (14 Jun 2012)

Shane McEntee: To conclude, the Irish Farmers' Journal has shown that every product in Ireland except the pig has had a price increase this week. We need to have a serious look at getting another pig factory in the country so we will have improved competitiveness.

Food Industry (14 Jun 2012)

Shane McEntee: The farmer will not mind if beef prices increase, as I know, coming from a farming background. There has been an increase of some 250,000 extra cattle registered this year. With prices remaining buoyant, there will be many more animals by 2015. Being a farmer, I had better not say anything, but I am delighted the prices have gone mad.

Beef Discussion Groups (14 Jun 2012)

Shane McEntee: The beef technology adoption programme was introduced in the context of the strategy for the long-term development of the beef sector as set out in the Food Harvest 2020 report. The strategy acknowledges that significant challenges exist in regard to farm-level profitability in the sector. Market realities dictate that a strong commercial perspective is vital to improving viability,...

Beef Discussion Groups (14 Jun 2012)

Shane McEntee: I was present when this was launched nearly a year ago in Kilkenny, where best practice within the beef industry was discussed and put on display. It is from this that the idea of discussion groups has been implemented and financed by my Department, and we will continue to do that.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Shane McEntee: Check the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (Resumed) (7 Jun 2012)

Shane McEntee: Be careful. The Deputy is overstepping the mark.

Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (Resumed) (7 Jun 2012)

Shane McEntee: Deputy Mattie McGrath was Fianna Fáil for all of his life.

Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (Resumed) (7 Jun 2012)

Shane McEntee: Deputy Mattie McGrath wants us to bail them out again. He cannot have it both ways.

Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2012)

Shane McEntee: No advice.

Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (6 Jun 2012)

Shane McEntee: I thank the Minister for allowing me time to speak. For at least five or six of the seven years in which I have been talking in this House about our good friends who have had trouble with their houses, nobody here wanted to listen. I welcome this debate and welcome the motion and counter-motion. The debate is bringing the matter to a head. There are two issues being discussed, namely,...

Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (6 Jun 2012)

Shane McEntee: Deputy Collins is wrong about Meath County Council.

Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (6 Jun 2012)

Shane McEntee: Deputy Collins is wrong.

Financial Services Regulation (15 May 2012)

Shane McEntee: I have taken on board everything the Deputy stated and I promise to forward the details to the relevant authorities. Approximately two years ago, I was gob-smacked when discovered the number of people and entities that were in a position to give out mortgages and the number of individuals who simply did not know what type of mortgage they had taken out. The Central Bank of Ireland has...

Financial Services Regulation (15 May 2012)

Shane McEntee: I will bring this matter, particularly the specific lender mentioned, to the attention of the Minister for Finance. In my constituency we have had similar cases of people who did not look at where they were getting their mortgage from and now find themselves in serious trouble like that described by the Deputy.

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2012)

Shane McEntee: The Taoiseach should remind him of the jobs in Dundalk.

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2012)

Shane McEntee: It is about growth and jobs.