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Climate Change: Statements (19 Sep 2019)

Michael Harty: .... It is a unique, traditional way of farming that has gone on for over 1,000 years but it was lost in the 1970s when CAP came in and there was a push towards intensified farming, which tended to destroy the natural habitat in the Burren. That has been redressed by the Burren life project led by Brendan Dunford. Each farm is given a management plan and once farmers have fulfilled the...

Beef Sector: Statements (17 Sep 2019)

Michael Harty: ...of Ireland. We have external threats to farming. Brexit is an external threat. Mercosur is an external threat but here we have Meat Industry Ireland, the processors - an internal threat - destroying the viability of rural Ireland. When there is only one purchaser, and effectively we have only one purchaser because there is a conglomerate of beef producers who work collectively,...

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2019)

Michael Harty: ..., it may not make a lot of difference because there will not be many beef farmers left. In my constituency, particularly west Clare, suckler farming is the mainstay of farming income. If that is destroyed by a hard Brexit, the Mercosur deal will not make much difference. Another issue being faced by west Clare farmers and others around the country is the price that they get from meat...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Michael Harty: ...there was no smoking in them. Pubs are now far more enjoyable places to go to because one does not come out of them smelling as if one had just come out of an ashtray. The proposals in this Bill will not destroy the pub trade. I do not believe that. I will refer to the issue of social isolation in rural areas, and perhaps also to social isolation in urban areas because one can be...

Waste Reduction Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Jul 2017)

Michael Harty: ...in climate change, I would not have liked to interrupt them too much. The motion is not contentious, but I would like to make one point. Plastic is far too easy to produce and far too difficult to destroy and recycle. The reduction of the production of waste products is the key. A system under which we would not produce the amount of waste we are producing is the key, rather than trying...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Michael Harty: ...a 38% reduction in their overall income year upon year. Therefore, they are retiring or emigrating to the Middle East, Canada and Australia. Young GPs are looking at how general practice has been destroyed by FEMPI and thus are not taking up GP lists. There is, therefore, a huge manpower crisis in general practice. The Committee on the Future of Healthcare has spent 11 months...