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Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Amendment No. 4, in the name of Deputy Bacik, has been ruled out of order as being outside the scope of the Bill

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Amendments Nos. 5 and 6 are related and will be discussed together.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Amendments Nos. 7 and 8 are related and will be discussed together.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Amendments Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, 17, 18, 36 to 70, inclusive, 77, 91 to 96, inclusive, 98, and 100 to 102, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.

Appropriation Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: This Bill, which is certified to be a money Bill in accordance with Article 22.2.1° of the Constitution, will be sent to the Seanad.

Appropriation Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Amendment No. 2 has been ruled out of order.

Appropriation Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Amendment No. 3 has also been ruled out of order.

Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Digital Services Bill 2023. It is important legislation that will provide the full opportunity for Ireland to implement the EU regulation on a single market for digital services. That EU digital services regulation, more commonly referred to as the EU Digital Services Act, provides a regulatory framework to protect the fundamental rights of users...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I have a question for the Minister for Justice. Thankfully, that ridiculous vote last week is out of the way and we can get back to focusing on Garda resources. I have two questions-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: There are approximately 113 gardaí currently suspended which, to put it into perspective, is approximately half of the total cohort of gardaí in my own county. I am sure some of them have done awful things while others have done very minor things but at the very least natural justice should prevail and the investigations, led by the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the people from ICBF. We have to declare if we have an interest here. I am a suckler farmer. I foddered 26 Shorthorn and Herefords before I came here this morning. Many of us have skin in the game and it is important to say that. This has been devastating to farmers but I want to go back to the politics of it. We are politicians first and foremost. If I have counted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Did the board vote on this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Was there consensus?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I am an IFA member. Every email I have received over the last few days has been from IFA, ICMSA and breeding society members. They are wondering what the hell happened in that board room that it agreed a scheme that has decimated the breeding index.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Can I ask one very important question as to how this decision came about? There are four IFA members, two members from the ICMSA, the breeders, and a lady from the Department who is secretary to the committee. We do not need to know about the other meetings but before the IFA members went into that meeting, which has been so important and had such an impact on farmers, did they get a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I will move on. I have a question for Dr. Crosson. Who requested Teagasc to develop a new algorithm for calculating the indexes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: We have all heard of this algorithm. I do not know if anyone in the room has seen it. Is it available or can it be released?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: With any algorithm, things fluctuate and change. Dr. Crosson mentioned that pricing changed from 2020 to 2022 and that was fed into the algorithm. I note also that there is a carbon index now, with which I do not fully agree, and a TB resistance index, which is the only positive I can see in all of this. Surely when all of that is fed in, it distorts the index and, at the end of the day,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I agree with Senator Dolan on the communication. It has been chronic. I will read a couple of lines from the Salers Society's its take on all of this. It wrote to the ICBF and stated: Many breeders are reporting that top-performing cows in their herds have not just dropped in the replacement index but have plummeted. These are cows with excellent fertility / calving interval, calving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I ask the ICBF to suspend its decision of 28 November until the stakeholder forum has taken place. The Salers Society is one of the major stakeholders and it did not see this coming. This is not a farmer over the road who has penned a letter here. It is one of the stakeholders with which the ICBF is supposed to have negotiated and spoken over many months. The Salers Society is questioning...

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