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- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
Martin Heydon: I too would like to welcome our friends from Estonia. It is great to have them here. I hope they learn a bit about the challenges and opportunities we face in our agriculture sector, which is so important to the Irish economy. This spring has been unlike many others. There is a saying that farmers need to be optimists or they would not still be farmers, but the optimistic streak in our...
- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
Cormac Devlin: Go raibh maith agaibh. There was some very good information, particularly from the perspective of farmers, regarding safety and mental health.
- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
Claire Kerrane: I am sharing time with Deputies Browne and Conway-Walsh. While these statements are welcome, they would have been more timely a number of weeks ago, when the issue was very much at the fore. Perhaps together we could have looked at measures that were needed, in consultation with farmers, the farming organisations and the Opposition, given the difficult and challenging weeks and months...
- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: One of the issues we generally come across when responding to the needs of farmers is the delay in appropriately addressing things as they happen. The particularly wet weather at the end of last year and to date in 2024 has extended the season in which farmers have had to keep their livestock housed and, as a result, has had a significant impact on feeding costs. Despite the signals that...
- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome this opportunity to discuss some of the issues impacting on farming. I thank the Minister for his statement. In particular, I welcome his remarks around the well-being of farmers. There is not much we can do about the weather in the short term, but there are many actions we can take to serve the financial stability and viability of farms and to alleviate the financial stress that...
- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
Alan Kelly: I very much welcome this debate. We should have had it, though, some time ago. I will not lay all the blame for that at the Minister's doorstep considering how early Easter was, St. Patrick's Day and the appointment of a new Taoiseach, etc. There was a lot of time taken up in not being in here and with other business. As the Minister is probably well aware, I live in the midst of a...
- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
Holly Cairns: The amount of rainfall we have been experiencing over recent months has pushed the agriculture sector to a crisis point. We have seen almost ten months of almost non-stop rainfall and farms are saturated. A few days' break is not enough for fields to dry out. This has been an absolutely devastating time for farmers across all sectors. Some livestock farmers are having to provide...
- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
Jackie Cahill: I welcome this debate. I thank the Ministers for what they have done so far regarding the weather crisis. Even though we have had a few dry bright days, the damage that has been done by the long wet spell will not disappear over a few days of sunshine. Before I left home this morning, I walked to the paddocks for the cows. The grass that is there for the second rotation is virtually...
- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
Pauline Tully: Ongoing bad weather has created huge problems for farmers this spring, with fields too wet for planting or taking livestock. Many farmers face fodder shortages because animals have been in sheds for too long. They cannot access grass in the fields because of wet ground conditions. Tillage farmers cannot get onto their land to plant their crops. My neighbours' fields are still empty....
- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
Paul Murphy: I welcome financial supports for small farmers during this bad weather. Unfortunately for them and society in general, the weather will keep getting worse and farming will become more and more difficult due to climate change. Yesterday at the climate committee, we heard presentations from the authors of Ireland's climate change assessment, an official Government report. They told us...
- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank Deputy Murphy. By way of comment, I respect your enthusiasm for your subject matter but I know many dairy farmers and I do not believe I would put any of them in the wealthy elite category that you seem to put them in.
- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
Paul Murphy: Most are not, but the big ones are. Do you not think there are any rich dairy farmers?
- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
Martin Heydon: The Deputy paints a picture of industrialisation.
- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: There are rich people in lots of professions.
- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
Paul Murphy: There are, yes.
- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Anyway, so be it. The Deputy is more than entitled to speak, thanks be to God. I will defend with my last breath his right to express his view-----
- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
Martin Heydon: I am sure that plays well in Tallaght.
- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
Paul Murphy: It is an unusual intervention by the Ceann-----
- Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It might be, but I do unusual things from time to time.