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Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: ...work permit while being a seasonal worker or thereafter? These are important considerations. It seems to be fundamentally wrong to bring somebody across the world and into the State and then to say they are just here to pick apples. I have been talking about fruit workers, although there is not a huge horticultural sector in Ireland. Nevertheless, it came very much to the fore earlier...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...us alongside countries that we want to be like, but we are not in the middle in the real picture. If one views our borrowings as a percentage of GNI, they represent 11%. One could say that we were comparing apples and oranges. Spain would be the next highest country, but its GDP and GNI are not very different. It is in the Netherlands, Ireland and Luxembourg where there is a massive...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)

Michael McNamara: .... However, I share his view and that of Deputy Ellis that we do not need to deal with the pensions issue now. To me, the Minister seems to be a bit like a market trader, where he has a few nice apples he wants to get rid of, but has a couple of not so nice apples he also wants to get rid of, so that when someone comes in to buy a bag of apples, he sticks in one or two the person would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion (Resumed) with FDII and IFA (23 Apr 2013)

Michael McNamara: ...but if it were and if we sold our excess eggs to it, I am of the view that both parties would be fined. There are extensive health and safety regulations in place and anyone who makes pork pies, apple pies or whatever and sells them at a farmers market must, in theory, comply with those regulations. The great majority of the regulations are not adhered to by most people. How could one...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Michael McNamara: ...to Independence, the authorities introduced a programme under which they sponsored orchard plantations. However, one of the conditions of the programme was that growers plant a certain type of apple tree. As a result, the apple trees that had been grown since time immemorial were replaced by new strains of apples in the early years of the 20th century. This is only one example as...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Michael McNamara: ...increasing commercialisation in the agriculture sector. Intensification is also increasing and proposals have been made to use genetically modified products and seeds in Ireland. The varieties of apple and grain grown here have also narrowed. In that context, Irish Seed Savers performs an important function. For example, it has planted 140 native varieties of apples to date. While this...