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

Joe Flaherty: I echo a lot of what the other speakers have said. I appreciate that the witnesses from the ICBF passionately believe in what they are setting out and that the ICBF is coming at this from a scientific point of view. However, the reality is that, unfortunately, the farming community at large has not bought into what it is trying to do and the ICBF has gotten it badly wrong. We have had...

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

Joe Flaherty: I will echo what the Senator said earlier. Bad heifers, regardless of what index they are given, will never be good cows. I know a good pedigree producer living in County Longford. He breeds Charolais and Limousin cattle and he routinely sells calves and young bulls for between €10,000 and €20,000. He is breeding one of the best-selling ones off a cow with an index rating of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2023: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (22 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: .... The third highest number of foals were foaled in Ireland last year, after Australia and America, with total sales of €293 million. It is a massive industry. I will make two points in the context of echoing what other members stated. On the integrity of the sport and anti-doping, the findings of this committee’s report was that we at least match international best...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: ...important that we retain and continue diplomatic ties with all countries. As always, An Tánaiste, Deputy Martin, was forthright in his condemnation of Israeli actions and his views and sentiments were echoed and shared by the entire audience at this year's Ard-Fheis. The loss of life in the Middle East as a result of the incessant and unrelenting Israeli bombings and attacks is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Business Supports (26 Oct 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Echoing that sentiment, I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House to address this important issue. I compliment the Ministers, Deputies Michael McGrath and Donohoe, and their ministerial team, including the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, on the work done on the budget. It was a momentous budget, one that was historic in many respects. It set the tone and template for the...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister for Transport for coming to the Chamber to address the important issue of road safety. I will echo some of the points that were made earlier in respect of speed ramps for housing estates. I know we have moved away from speed ramps and towards raised platforms. There is obviously merit in that for young people cycling and so on. However, the process for trying to get...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I echo Deputy Fitzmaurice's comments on the sheep sector. I attended a meeting with sheep farmers in Longford last night. They are worried about their situation. It is arguably our most challenged sector at the moment. Many sectors in farming are quite buoyant at the moment. It goes without saying that the Government has provided significant supports for both the pig and horticulture...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Joe Flaherty: ..., what has happened with Coillte and the Gresham House deal has fired a bolt through the confidence barometer of farmers. Farmers have a sickly feeling in their stomachs again over forestry. I echo the proposal to have representatives of Coillte back in here as soon as possible. There is widespread suspicion among farmers and, more worrying, timber processors to the effect that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Joe Flaherty: .... I will home in on one of the points raised by Deputy Carthy on the socioeconomic implications of this. It is astonishing we would look at something like this at EU level without doing that. I echo what Deputy Fitzmaurice said about community. We are not just looking at rewetting peatland here. These are generational farms, as I said. Grandparents and great-grandparents started the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: It is good to have the Aire here. To echo my constituency colleague, I commend the Minister on the work he has done in this area. I look forward to hearing the exchanges today. I will have a number of questions for him and I will come back to him with those.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: ...to people such as the witnesses, it is clear that it is not working. We are either wasting an awful lot of money or not listening so it is very important that the witnesses are here. I will echo Senator Flynn in hoping that the Department officials are listening in and will see the great disconnect in this service. It is fortunate we have this committee. It has given a voice to many of...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Joe Flaherty: ...introduction of the temporary business energy support scheme, TBESS, in budget 2023 has been welcome. However, there is still a genuine fear and a concern that it will not be enough. Indeed, I have to echo the comments of my colleague Deputy Berry that we seem to be focused on just containing the price of energy, when the focus needs to be on driving it down. As I came into the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: ...making role as to how we define our constituencies and areas for election are politicians. Whether we want larger or smaller parties to get more votes, the point is we need more people to vote. I echo a lot of what Deputy Ó Snodaigh said. We need to go back to basics and start from the bottom up in terms of local electoral boundaries. There are some horrific examples across the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Project Ireland 2040 (1 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: ...to this issue. An additional €1.5 million this year will keep this project on track and allow the design team to continue with the route-selection works. Everything the Minister has said would echo the views of the midlands, generally. This is a critical infrastructure and road, not only for the midlands, but for the wider north-west region. It behoves us, as legislators and the...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2021)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan. This is an important Bill and I echo what my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Byrne, said. It is very easy to get emotional and bang the drum for rural Ireland, but in reality if one reads through the Bill one will find it is one of the most effective pieces of legislation to enable people to come back and live once again in rural...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Veterinary Medicines: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Joe Flaherty: I welcome our three speakers. This is very informative. Their presentation took much of the technical jargon out of the process and that is greatly appreciated. I will probably echo what many other speakers said in that I have concerns that the proposals, as set out, for the veterinary medicines regulations will increase costs for farmers. Ultimately, farmers and everybody on this...