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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Food Industry (26 Sep 2024)
Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister for that. As I said, I have raised this issue many times. I have a sense, and I hope I am not wrong, that we are almost at the final hurdle. It has just taken so long but sometimes you get to a point where you can only look forward and you cannot keep looking back wondering why it has not happened before now. There is a huge level of frustration among the producers....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Food Industry (26 Sep 2024)
Martin Kenny: I have a brief supplementary to support Deputy Harkin on that. I also come from County Leitrim and boxty is something we grew up with from when we were children coming home from school. There was boxty dumpling, boxty loaf and pan boxty. In many parts of country they have not even heard of it but it is a staple diet for many people in that part of the world. It is a tremendous and a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Food Industry (26 Sep 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputies Harkin and Kenny. The geographical area for the production of boxty in the context of the PGI application is Cavan, Leitrim, Sligo and Mayo. It is a great product. You do not see it in enough counties. It also has great potential particularly in terms of its health and nutrition benefits in the current context where people are looking for products that are not as...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Food Industry (26 Sep 2024)
Martin Kenny: How long does that take?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Food Industry (26 Sep 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: It is hard-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Food Industry (26 Sep 2024)
Martin Kenny: A year? Five years?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Food Industry (26 Sep 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: Less than that.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Food Industry (26 Sep 2024)
Marian Harkin: Less than that if the legal matter is sorted.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Food Industry (26 Sep 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: If we look back from the point where we made the application for the grass-fed beef PGI, from memory it was probably 18 months to two years from the point of application to the third-country opposition procedure to it getting final approval. It was about that scale of time. It is hard to be precise on it but those are the steps which have to be gone through.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (26 Sep 2024)
Further and Higher Education
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (26 Sep 2024)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 57. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can provide further detail on the veterinary degree to be provided by the South East Technological University. [38014/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (26 Sep 2024)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Will the Minister provide further details on the veterinary degree to be provided by the South East Technological University? It is a really good news story.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (26 Sep 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputy Murnane O'Connor. First, I congratulate the Deputy and all in the south east on the very successful outcome, which is wonderful news for the region. I know it is something for which she worked very hard with her colleagues and on which we had a lot of engagement. The news has been wonderfully well received in the north west as it has in the south east. It is exciting news...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (26 Sep 2024)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister. As he said, I was at the ploughing and was very honoured to be there when he announced this with our higher education Minister. Giving €25 million from his own budget was so important. Everybody was working together. I know Kildalton College well. My son studied horticulture there for over three years but he is now a garda. Anyway, he loved that too. It is...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (26 Sep 2024)
Martin Kenny: As the Minister is aware my colleagues, Deputies Kerrane and Carthy, put forward a proposal earlier this year with regard to having a commission on the future of the family farm. It is about more than generational renewal. In our view, what needs to happen is we need to look at the family farm in the whole to see what the future of it will be. That is for the suckler, sheep, pig and every...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (26 Sep 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy has identified the two key aspects in terms of economic viability for farming. Those are price and the economic schemes and supports we have in place to support food production and farmers' work at farm level. On price, 90% of our food is exported so it is dependent on the prices available internationally. However, the significant step I took as Minister was introducing the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (26 Sep 2024)
Martin Kenny: A major issue is that the price the farmers get for their produce is dominated by processors and the big players. Often, they do not get an opportunity, because they are basically price takers. That is the key problem, along with how to organise and how to form production groups and so on to ensure we get a fair price for farmers. I was speaking to the grain growers at the ploughing last...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (26 Sep 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: I agree with Deputy Kenny. That is why I took the unprecedented step of establishing a statutory legal authority to deliver on that. I have also asked it to continue to engage and update me on its progress and I will be stepping to enhance its powers further as is necessary to make sure that transparency is there throughout the supply chain. We obviously have to be proportionate in law in...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (26 Sep 2024)
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Food Industry (26 Sep 2024)
Food Industry