Results 601-620 of 1,048,042 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:Neasa Hourigan) 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: 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.

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 important because these are only small abattoirs attached to butcher shops and they would operate to high standards. It is important they are not put out of business because they are probably the ones that are using the best practice. There is one issue on my mind regarding horses and it has come up here several times. The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board, IHRB, is funded by...

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 have raised this with the IHRB in this committee and it assured us that it does not feel that it impinges in a negative way. Do the witnesses understand the point I am making?

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 am aware that it has increased. The witnesses might clarify this point when they come back with the piece of information on whether there is an arbitration.

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 want to raise the issue of tuberculosis, TB, screening. The committee previously did a report on this and we put in some recommendations which I want to revert to, because it has been a problem in this country for longer than I have been around. The incidents of it are increasing. If I heard correctly over the last few days, incidents in the first six months of this year are up again....

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 really concerning.

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: Farmers are terrified. I have spoken to some of them and they really are concerned about this.

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 suggests that given the scale of it and the rate at which it is increasing, it will be doubled very soon if we do not sort it. This needs to be treated as an emergency by the Department and by the agriculture sector. This has the potential to spread. It has high levels of contagion and it has been a problem since the 1940s and 1950s. As a child, I remember hearing about TB in the herd...