Results 61-80 of 1,049,299 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Damien English OR speaker:Ivana Bacik OR speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh OR speaker:Niall Collins OR speaker:Catherine Murphy OR speaker:Darragh O'Brien) 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Okay. I also have a view on that. What is the cost of the external review?
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We are not far down the line. We have announced an intention to have an external review. Is that right?
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Do we have a timeline?
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is for the tendering process, which will take a certain amount of time. Surely the terms of reference includes a reporting time.
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We are hearing on this issue that the Department will do a root and branch review, that there is urgency and all the rest. However, in response to another "RTÉ Investigates" programme from a full year ago, I am told the Department has looked at a terms of reference and is thinking about bringing something to tender. It does not speak of urgency. When we saw the conditions those dogs...
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I just want the headline figure. Sorry to interrupt.
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: What are we spending on biosecurity controls?
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The biosecurity controls, especially on the importation of plastics.
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The €237 million is more or less a quarter of a billion euro. I am looking at this from the perspective of fire blight, which is here. We have an issue. It took us too long with ash dieback. We should have been much stricter. I do not know whether we could have prevented it crossing the Irish Sea with weather conditions. That point is moot, but fire blight is a real and present...
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We have biosecurity as an island though. We can control the plant and animal species that are coming in.
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Will Mr. Gleeson revert to us with a quantum of funding?
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The old Joe Biden line is, "Show me the budget and I will be able to tell whether you care about it or not."
- 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) Catherine Murphy: I have been told there have been cases of veterinary inspectors who declined to take up a post because their duties would include Shannonside veterinary clinic. Can Mr. Gleeson confirm that?
- 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) Catherine Murphy: Will Mr. Blake check it out and come back to me?
- 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) Catherine Murphy: How long have the current veterinary inspector or superintendent veterinary inspector been in situ?
- 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) Catherine Murphy: Will Mr. Blake come back to us with that and tell us how long their predecessor were there? I want to see whether there is churn and what that might be. I often get the impression, when there is European oversight, real attention is paid to it. We can pay more attention when there is European oversight. Would the witnesses accept that is the case?
- 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) Catherine Murphy: I accept that. I saw the programme and that comes across clearly. It is not unique to one location but we have responsibility for here. On another aspect, people will always try to get around systems. We understand that. The responsibility is to make sure to close those off. Presumably the Department would have been aware of precoded or blank microchips or encoding machines. Is that...
- 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) Catherine Murphy: Does Mr. Gleeson mean that is the case not just in that one plant? That is routine, presumably.
- 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) Catherine Murphy: Are there spot checks?
- 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) Catherine Murphy: We got a reply from the Department in relation to some of the questions that some of us asked the day on which Horse Racing Ireland, HRI, was before us. It told us the total number of horses slaughtered in 2023 was 1,987, of which 1,434 were registered thoroughbreds. If they are registered thoroughbreds, that does not assume they have raced. How many have raced and were therefore excluded...