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Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Creed: Very often in the context of the debate we are having nationally at the moment about migration, we sometimes conveniently ignore the critical contribution to the economy of migrants in the workplace. In the context of this Bill I want to focus in particular on the people internationally whom we seek to come to work here because of their critical skill sets. I refer in particular to people...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Michael Creed: Like previous speakers, I am very familiar with this stretch of road. It is 24 km long but a lot of it is not as wide as the Minister suggests and there is no hard shoulder on about a third of it. There are 25 significant right-turning junctions on a route that has more traffic on it than sections of the M8 between junctions 3 and 4. I heard the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, make the...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Michael Creed: Yes, I am. I am trying to keep an eye on multiple committee proceedings so please forgive me for not being present in person in the committee room. I welcome the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, and the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, and commend them on the sustained progress and budget lines that they have secured for their Department. That is always a critical indicator of service...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Michael Creed: I am in the complex. I even went to the bother, while I was listening, of putting the Leinster House logo up as a backdrop. It is amazing what one can discover while sitting listening to incisive contributions. I have just one or two brief questions for the Minister. I will preface them by saying that, as public representatives, most of us, with some notable exceptions, are not...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Schemes (2 Mar 2022)

Michael Creed: ...Social Protection did not distinguish itself in helping with this issue between 2008 and the recent resolution of the problem for community employment supervisors. Of course, the deal was confined to those in the room, which included the Department of Social Protection, the community employment supervisors and their representatives. We are talking about the people who were locked out of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Michael Creed: That is quite reassuring. Members of the House are anxious that the areas we represent will receive their proportionate share of any new recruits in order to improve the visibility of gardaí on the ground. I wish to trespass into the area of Garda management, because I know the Minister regularly engages with the Garda Commissioner and senior management. One of the issues about...

Easing of Covid-19 Restrictions: Statements (2 Feb 2022)

Michael Creed: Like others, I will say something that cannot be said often enough, that is, I acknowledge the efforts made by everybody in the healthcare sector. It was not just the healthcare workers. It was a general, national endeavour that got us through the pandemic. Front-line healthcare workers and staff working in local supermarkets, meat plants and dairy farms made a collective endeavour that...

International Travel and Aviation: Statements (25 May 2021)

Michael Creed: It is by dint of an extraordinary national endeavour that we are having a debate here today that has a degree of cautious optimism in the context of Covid-19. The possibility raised in the speech of the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, of an earlier release from the restrictions that currently apply to international travel, even ahead of the introduction of the digital green certificate, is very...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Michael Creed: I thank Deputy Dillon for sharing his time with me. I also welcome the opportunity to say a few words on what is a significant Bill. The Bill is not in itself the outline of the challenge but it is the framework within which the challenge of climate change will be addressed. It is important in that context, no matter what position we come from as long we are not climate change deniers,...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Michael Creed: I do not see much point in responding to the opening point the Deputy made regarding Covid-19 in meat plants, as I am on the record of the House on that issue already. Suffice to say, as I said then, that every individual who contracts Covid-19 needs to be treated in the best possible way by the health services and everything needs to be done to try and prevent the spread of the virus. The...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Michael Creed: I am very pleased to be before the House to present the annual transition statement for the agriculture sector. The long-term challenge for the sector, as outlined in the climate action plan, is to meet the national policy objective of an approach to carbon neutrality which does not compromise our capacity for sustainable food production. That plan goes on to set out sectoral greenhouse gas...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (9 Jun 2020)

Michael Creed: ...other commodities is a commercial matter which I, as Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine nor my Department, have any role in determining. I am acutely aware of the issues presented to the agri-food sector in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and I am aware that the beef sector is particularly exposed given its reliance on external trade and the food service and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fire Service (9 Jun 2020)

Michael Creed: ...phase that occurred between 29 May 29 and 1 June. The issue of a Condition Red Notice is a comparatively rare occurrence and outlines the level of risk involved and specifies measures that may need to be taken in response to this. A high state of readiness existed following the issue of this warning, which was widely reported in the media. The fire Danger Notice contained a reminder...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Negotiations (3 Jun 2020)

Michael Creed: On Tuesday 26th May last, I participated in a video meeting with Chief Negotiator on the Task Force for the Negotiations with the United Kingdom, Mr Michael Barnier, and the EU Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevicius, in relation to fisheries negotiations with the UK.  Fisheries Ministers from Member States most impacted by the UK withdrawal from...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Michael Creed: The Department of Health and the HSE are the public health authorities leading the national response to the public health pandemic. A national Outbreak Control Team reporting to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre has been established. The Group’s remit is to oversee and co-ordinate the approach to the prevention and management of Covid- 19 outbreaks in meat plants in Ireland....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (27 May 2020)

Michael Creed: My officials and I have ongoing contact with all the key stakeholders across both the beef and dairy sectors. More than ever in the ongoing response to the Covid-19 pandemic, I am aware of this need for ongoing contact as the situation has evolved. My Department and I are working to ensure that business and services to farmers can continue, keeping food and other processing facilities...

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Michael Creed: That was a wide-ranging contribution on Covid-19. If the Deputy would like me to give chapter and verse on what we are doing for the beef industry, I draw his attention, for example, to a simple item called the beef data and genomics programme, BDGP, aimed at improving the genetic merit of the herd, thereby improving its environmental and financial efficiency. That is just one scheme....

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Michael Creed: In reference to the point Deputy McConalogue made about the Minister for Health, I remind the House that the Minister was present earlier, made a detailed statement on the meat plants and was available for questioning in that context. As my colleague, the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation has confirmed, he identified 828 cases and 16 clusters in the meat industry. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (20 May 2020)

Michael Creed: I propose to take Questions Nos. 850 and 858 together. Our fishing sector has been particularly hard hit by the severe market disruption in Europe and internationally caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic. The closure of many markets and disruption of established distribution channels, particularly to restaurants and the food service industry domestically and internationally, has seen market demand...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Household Incomes (20 May 2020)

Michael Creed: I am aware of the report referenced by the Deputy.   My Department works closely with Teagasc on monitoring family farm incomes. I understand that Teagasc will shortly publish analysis of a range of scenarios examining in detail the possible income effects arising from the current COVID pandemic. The agri-food sector is an essential part of the economic and social fabric...