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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: I ask Mr. Woods to be as quick as he can be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: I am sure members will have plenty of questions in due course. I invite Mr. McCormack to make his opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: I thank all the organisations for their very comprehensive submissions and presentations today. Before I go to members, there is no doubt that this is an important issue at present. Should we all have been looking in our crystal ball a couple of years ago when the milk quota rules were abolished? Was it obvious that there would be a significant increase in production numbers and cattle...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: I will open the meeting up to members, beginning with Deputies McConalogue and Penrose.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: It is obvious that there is no single silver bullet. The committee wishes to have a very honest and deep rooted discussion about the beef sector from start to finish. My late father used to say that a suckler cow always died in debt. That was 20 years ago and it is probably the same today. Things have not changed from that point of view. We must be able to do an analysis to find out why...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: The next speaker is Senator Mulherin who will be followed by Deputies Martin Kenny and Corcoran Kennedy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: Bord Bia representatives will be here next week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: The figure of 100,000 is incorrect.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: With respect, Deputy Eamon Ryan has the floor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: No. Deputy Eamon Ryan should continue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: We are not going to rehash the climate change debate here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: In fairness, it has to be said we have very high animal welfare standards in this country.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: Leave out the advertising.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: We have covered a good deal of ground but time is moving on. We have another delegation to interview before the night is over. For the record, according to the 2016 census figures, there are 139,500 farmers in the country. We will try to keep the next contributions as brief as possible. There are many questions to be answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: I want to allow all the groups to speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: On that, is there an issue whereby the exporters should be working together? This is an issue we came across at a previous meeting. The exporters were encouraged to work together to try to alleviate some of those issues. Correct me if I am wrong but I understand there has been an effort over a long period to ensure they would come together and work under an umbrella organisation. There...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: I believe the same issue arose last year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: I am sorry for cutting across Mr. Healy and I know we are dragging on a bit but my understanding, and Mr. Healy can correct me if I am wrong, is that some of the exporters were offered a bigger ship with lairage capacity and that was not taken up either.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: It may not be but we can discuss it another day.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: Others might address that issue.