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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Does Mr. Brady see a day coming when we will be completely dependent on renewables and self-sufficient?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I will come to agriculture but I want to ask another question first. We have targets set but we are not reaching them. We are not even reaching halfway. I cannot remember exactly what reduction is required by 2030. Do the witnesses see us reaching the target or getting anywhere near it in the next ten years? Will we be behind every year and paying a penalty to Europe every year for being...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I come from an agricultural background. I am still involved in agriculture. I was this morning, anyway. Agriculture is blamed for 30% of the greenhouse gas emissions but we have a great product here – a green grass product that is naturally produced. Forests are being burned in the Amazon at the moment just to create land. While the policy is probably coming from Europe, we are to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I wish to follow the same line as the previous speaker. Is increasing the carbon tax the only way to coerce people to live environmentally friendly lives? Is increasing taxes all the time to change people's bad fossil fuel habits the only way forward the witnesses can see? Do they have any alternative way to get people to move from fossil fuels such as diesel, petrol and coal? Are there...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Haulage Industry (5 Nov 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 123. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 220 of 16 October 2019, the position regarding the rebate available to hauliers following the recent rise in carbon tax affecting cost of fuel and operating costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44370/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Regulation (5 Nov 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 563. To ask the Minister for Health when the final report on valproate will be published; the reason for the delay in finalising same to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44692/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Regulation (5 Nov 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 564. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet representative bodies to discuss progress on recommendations in a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44693/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Regulation (5 Nov 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 565. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the apparent lack of availability of official documentation regarding the licensing of a drug (details supplied) within the public sphere; his views on the need for total transparency in respect of same and the need for a possible investigation in respect of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44694/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (5 Nov 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 892. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the recent decision taken by Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland not to feature greyhound racing in tourism marketing campaigns here or abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44581/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (5 Nov 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 910. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application for a sports capital grant by a club (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44501/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Improvement Scheme (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Can some of the money be redirected to counties Carlow and Kilkenny?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Could we ask-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I welcome Mr. Gleeson and his team and thank him for coming before us to be scrutinised as to how public money is being spent. As a farmer, I naturally want to ask Mr. Gleeson about the beef exceptional aid measure scheme, BEAM, and the beef data and genomics programme, BDGP. Are those schemes fully subscribed, undersubscribed or oversubscribed? It would be interesting to know what...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: What will happen to the money that will not be spent if that matures?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Why does Mr. Gleeson think that is undersubscribed? Why has that €26 million not been taken up? I thought, from a personal and farming point of view, that it would be oversubscribed.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: The biggest problem was that the two animals had to be weighed.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: All farmers lose animals. I only found out when my son and I applied for the scheme that even if one had a calf, if the mother died, that was excluded. Unfortunately, every farmer loses animals. I thought that was a severe penalty and that that animal should have been included.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I am just passing a comment on it. No one wants to lose an animal but it happens. I want to move on to Bord na gCon and the horse sport industry, and the money they get every year. I think Bord na gCon gets €16 million and the horse sport sector gets €64 million. What oversight does the Department have over that? It hands the money to both bodies. Does it have a role to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Is Mr. Gleeson satisfied that the bodies' welfare policies are up to standard and implemented as per the book?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Horse Sport Ireland gets a certain amount of money each year. It was €2 million in 2016, €2.5 million in 2017, and I think it is increasing to €3 million this year. We met representatives of the organisation before the budget. The Indecon report from 2016 stated that there is great potential in this, with a return of 1,000 times the amount of taxpayers' money spent...