Results 601-620 of 1,065,929 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Micheál Martin OR speaker:Pearse Doherty OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire OR speaker:David Stanton) in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: There is oversight by the Department and Mr. Gleeson is satisfied. That is the key thing.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: Would a vet have seen the horses since?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: That is all I wanted to know. Deputy Devlin is next.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: Care must be taken here because some witnesses here will probably wind up having to give evidence.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: Mr. Gleeson is correct. The person with the animals could be somebody in difficult circumstances such as an elderly person with other issues. I have come across it. We accept that. The Department must operate with the policy it is given and it must operate within the law. One thing that surprised me as we started looking at this two weeks ago was that a person with a conviction three...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: Regarding EU law, we have a bit of latitude in this country as to what laws we can make. Unless there was some serious impediment - unless Ursula von der Leyen turns up and says "No, stop", and I would be surprised if she did - that is surely one area about which we are going to have to do something. It is bonkers to think that this could happen. The Department is working under strictures...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: It is not an area we can go into here regarding case law and so on but I would be surprised if there were no cases. I am rewinding my head in terms of what you would see coming before the courts and cases that stand out where somebody would be prohibited from keeping animals forever. That is not appropriate in every case but someone with a conviction three years and a day or a month ago...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: And the protection of animals and our food industry. Those two things need to be to the fore.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: The next speaker is Deputy Ó Cathasaigh. We will take ten minutes per member.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: In regard to this question on biosecurity, now that we have the sea border in place between England, Scotland and Wales, and Ireland, in the ports of Belfast and Larne there is obviously a risk. We quite rightly have an open Border. I look forward to the day when there will not be a Border at all. However, have there been discussions with the people in control who supervise in the North at...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: I understand that. I asked is whether the Department is in contact with the people who do it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: We should recall with foot and mouth disease that the fact we operated a sea border worked. Technically, some people might not be happy with it but the real world is the real world, and reality is reality. I want to get that reassurance.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: I absolutely agree. There has to be an all-Ireland approach and it is important that is working.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Gleeson. Deputy Murphy now has ten minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: Where cattle and other animals are being slaughtered, is it correct to say there are county council vets?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: The money for these vets comes from the witnesses' Department to the county council. It is what is called a contra item. I am trying to remember.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: The county councils call it a contra item and each year it is in the budget. Would those vets be approved by the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: Would they be qualified?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: There would be a standard they would have to meet.