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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-02-18/4/
18 Feb 1988 -
Have no doubt about it, these cuts have to be seen as a strategic error in any quest for national recovery..., advisory and education services?...Is it now quite clear also that in agriculture a strong research and development base is now needed more...and advisory sector....The National Food Centre at Dunsinea was launched with a blaze of publicity.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1977-02-24/4/
24 Feb 1977 -
the question of the representation suggested by the Minister, the General Council of Committees of Agriculture...They will be represented on the national body by only one member— one member for the 27 committees throughout...This is a matter to which the Minister should give his attention before the next Stage of the Bill....provides that the board shall: furnish to the Minister such information regarding the activities of the Authority
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-05-20/30/
20 May 2021 -
The Bill relates specifically to how the Higher Education Authority will interact with the institutions...The Higher Education Authority and Quality Qualifications Ireland co-chair the national advisory forum...Membership of the forum also comprises representatives of the higher education institutions, research...In parallel with this process, I am continuing to meet research funders, researchers, higher education...We will send it to the national advisory group which will advise on any further actions that need to
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-04-28/3/
28 Apr 1988 -
, that is, the bringing together of agricultural advisory, training, education and research services...Many millions of pounds are spent on various aspects of agriculture research in Britain but the bulk...Education in agriculture more than in any other section of the community is an ongoing process to such...In relation to the make-up of the Authority, I am confident that the Minister will give the nation an...In the same way, this clear direction is now being given in respect of agricultural research and education
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-04-28/3/
28 Apr 1988 -
with responsibility for agriculture advisory services, training, education and research services....The new Authority will have a very daunting task in co-ordinating all aspects of training, research and...They have set out the priorities required for agriculture by introducing this Bill....In servicing the research and advisory needs of the tillage farmer, the Oak Park Centre in Carlow is...In a research study of expenditure on agricultural research and extension services in 104 countries including
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-11-14/18/
14 Nov 1978 -
I was anxious to get the agricultural schools, who provide a basic education, the advisory services,...The National Agricultural Authority Act had the almost unanimous support of the agricultural organisations...During the debate on the National Agricultural Authority Bill, Opposition speakers, led by the Minister...The research activities in the Department of Agriculture were being transferred to the authority to be...While the facilities for agricultural education would be closely linked with the advisory and research
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-10-26/4/
26 Oct 1978 -
in agriculture and those engaged in research....The advisory service has always been considered to be people who educated farmers and others for their...The important thing about the agricultural advisory service is that they deal individually with farmers...Education is the vital word as far as the advisory service is concerned....It is important that those engaged in the advisory services and on research should know exactly the terms
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-11-14/18/
14 Nov 1978 -
, having spoken as they did during their contributions on the National Agricultural Authority Bill which...I quote from his contribution on my Bill on 9 February 1976, reported at column 1086 of the Official...After such an attack on the provisions relating to the advisory services in the National Agricultural...The farming community, the advisory and educational services and all the people involved in them will...see through his pretence and sham as evidenced by his statement on the National Agricultural Authority
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1977-04-19/29/
19 Apr 1977 -
stripped of all authority....As Deputy Gibbons has said, politics do play a part in the committees of agriculture....These are the people who are at present in charge of the advisory services....The Minister has pulled the teeth out of the county committees of agriculture....The Minister has brought in this Bill and he will not say that the general council is entitled to four
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-02-23/28/
23 Feb 1988 -
One is AFDA, the Agricultural Food and Development Authority, and the other is ACOTT, An Comhairle Oiliúna...However, the farming community continue to need more than ever soundly based research and educational...To date, AFT have provided the scientific research and ACOT have given the educational advice....As I have said also, we are the only country in northern Europe to merge both the education and advisory...of agricultural output is devoted to providing research and advice?
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1988-06-01/10/
1 Jun 1988 -
Byrne I welcome the Bill....We have lost people with long experience in research and in advising people....I welcome the Bill and I hope it will pass through this House as speedily as possible in the national...I hope this Bill is not leading us that way....Our advisory staff were not educated and employed to be revenue collectors. This is disgraceful.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-03-03/7/
3 Mar 1988 -
research, advice and education....Within European agriculture, at the various contact levels and at Community level, between the research...Perhaps if we never had US assistance in the first place, research in agriculture would have continued...I will return to the Bill before the House....Over the years very good work at research and advisory level has been done by the organisations which
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-04-28/3/
28 Apr 1988 -
to me that this House is still debating this measure because every week that has gone by since this Bill...It is a great source of disappointment to me that nationally speaking we have ignored research...., advisory and education areas....the outset and I think that view has been vindicated right across the board, from teachers to local authority...Ireland's percentage expenditure on research and education in Europe is now at the lowest level of all
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1979-02-28/29/
28 Feb 1979 -
His decision was that the advisory, educational and research services which hitherto had been operating...part of the educational service and the advisory service were under the county committees of agriculture...was to be known as the National Agricultural, Educational and Research Authority, which was subsequently...Institute in as a component part and merging it with education and research services under one authority...of which is to take the Agricultural Institute from under the authority of the National Agricultural
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1988-06-01/8/
1 Jun 1988 -
Bringing back this level of research and education under the one roof is long overdue...., development, education and training....Agricultural research requires independence particularly as it had a great deal of independence in the...research and advice to a level of irreversible decay and to a level where nothing worthwhile on a national...will give some consideration to what I am saying because I do not trust any body he sets up with his authority
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-10-26/4/
26 Oct 1978 -
advisory and research and educational services under the National Agricultural Authority established...ask itself was it worth losing two years in which a career structure could have been provided for our advisory...services, in which plans could have been made by developing a new educational service based on the directives...The reorganisation of our advisory, educational and research services has been a matter of public debate...The heads of the Bill drafted in the Department of Agriculture and circulated in the name of the then
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1979-04-04/7/
4 Apr 1979 -
(Amendment) Act, 1958 Section 2 of the Agriculture (Amendment) Act, 1958, is hereby amended by the...subsection (1) of this section which remains unpaid on the coming into operation of section 53 of the National...Agricultural Advisory, Education and Research Authority Act, 1977, partly to An Chomhairle Oiliúna Talmhaíochta...This amendment adds an additional section to the Bill....to the National Agricultural Authority now being replaced by An Chomhairle Oiliúna Talmhaíochta.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-10-26/4/
26 Oct 1978 -
whereby it is advanced that the development of agricultural research must be divorced from the day to...day advisory educational and training services of the industry....If agricultural research is to advance in an integrated and effective way, it must have a very positive...When the National Agricultural Advisory, Educational and Research Authority were proposed, considerable...They would be in an advisory capacity, too, to the local authorities.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1988-06-01/10/
1 Jun 1988 -
I said at the beginning of my contribution that the national herd had been halved since we joined the...advisory educational and research services provided by or on behalf of the State....I think also that the proposed cuts in research and agricultural education could cost the economy dearly...It is very hard to give figures on that, but I have heard one figure given by a fairly acceptable authority...advisory service.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-03-06/305/
6 Mar 2012 -
for Teagasc, the Agriculture and Food Development Authority whose principal functions are to provide,...or procure the provision of, educational, training, research and advisory services in agriculture....Teagasc is the primary state education provider in agriculture, food, horticulture, forestry and equine...Lifelong learning is an essential requirement and Teagasc advisory and education services are committed...Advanced Certificate in Horticulture at Kildalton College and the College of Amenity Horticulture in the National
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-01-25/11/
25 Jan 1989 -
Minister for Agriculture and Food (Mr....and food industry on the most cost-effective basis and to ensure an integrated research, education and...The objectives were the necessity to achieve the maximum integration of research, advisory and training...advisory training and research services; special emphasis on education and training for young farmers...and on food research as required under the legislation; a special advisory service for small producers
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-02-23/28/
23 Feb 1988 -
Kitt I am glad of the opportunity to speak on this Bill....I am glad the Minister has amalgamated agricultural advisory training and research services....I am glad that this Bill gives priority to training and education and to the food research and development...Under this Bill the committees of agriculture will be no more, but members of these committees can still...I am glad the budget provided for the reintroduction of that scheme and I hope the new authority, Teagasc
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1988-06-01/10/
1 Jun 1988 -
There has been much mention here in the debate of the importance of research to the whole agricultural...or advisory services....One need only look back briefly at the history of the research and advisory services to know that they...This was an amazingly high figure and it showed how successful the advisory and research bodies were....The research, education and advice budget at present is falling very significantly at a time when it
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-02-09/36/
9 Feb 2012 -
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Deputy Simon Coveney) This is an operational matter...Under the Agriculture, (Research, Training and Advice) Act, 1988 Teagasc has statutory responsibility...for the delivery of education, advisory and research services to the agriculture sector....its programmes, services and activities in conjunction with its clients and partners overseen by an Authority...The College of Amenity Horticulture is based at the National Botanic Gardens and it trains students for
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-17/8/
17 Jun 1976 -
The main purpose of the Bill is to increase the share capital of the National Stud Company who were formed...Education and research have become an important function at the stud....Agricultural Institute and other bodies in various areas of equine research....They also hope to extend their educational and training programmes....One of these bodies is the National Stud Company for which the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-03-01/20/
1 Mar 1988 -
Jefferies, presented the estate to the Irish nation for use as an agricultural college and research centre...In Wexford we are lucky enough to have another research station at Clonroche, the National Soft Fruit...by the new Authority — I see they are even calling the new Authority AFDA — which would require the...We are still spending the lowest percentage of our agricultural output on research and advisory services...The success of any research and advice programme, the success of any education based programme to young
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-11-09/27/
9 Nov 1978 -
Greater use must be made of the advisory service and our efforts in the research area must be constructive...If An Foras Taluntais were to be subsumed into a body such as the National Agricultural Authority, which...In a National Agricultural Authority situation the research effort would be diluted....In a national agricultural authority situation there would undoubtedly be undue influence from the other...Social research would virtually disappear under a national agricultural authority.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-02-23/25/
23 Feb 1988 -
I firmly believe that research should be separated from education and advice....natures of research, education and advice....Agriculture is by far our single most important industry in terms of the share of national income, exports...The Government in their Programme for National Recovery recognised the continued importance of the agricultural...The target of ACOT and AFT provides an opportunity to redirect agricultural research and advisory programmes
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-03-01/20/
1 Mar 1988 -
research on the one hand and education and advisory services on the other as expressed as a percentage...By 1980 Europe was spending the equivalent of 1.6 per cent of agricultural output on research with the...I do not criticise the fact that we spend more than the rest of Europe on advice and educational services...arm of the Department with the new farm authority....on to say that the priority to be given to entrants into farming will not mean the exclusion of the advisory
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-01-28/32/
28 Jan 1976 -
The increase in the public service pay bill is over 18 per cent....the national pay agreement, together with the payment during 1976 of standard increases yet to come...Education The 1976 estimate of expenditure on education is £241 million....Agriculture The 1976 estimate for Agriculture provides for non-capital expenditure of £79 million compared...are being provided for the various promotional bodies such as the IDA, the Institute for Industrial Research
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-01-28/32/
28 Jan 1976 -
The details will be set out in the Finance Bill....There will be provision in the Finance Bill to counter these devices...."No policy can get more out of a nation than there is in a nation", said Walter Bagehot with much truth...Education, research and advisory services: Education 2,567 3,319 2,309 4,505...6,269 Research 3,670 4,228 3,682 6,246 7,285 Farm advisory services 1,663
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1979-03-22/24/
22 Mar 1979 -
insert the following paragraph: "(i) by the substitution in section 39 (7) for ‘in section 1 (1) of the Agriculture...(Amendment) Act, 1974,' of ‘in section 2 of the Agriculture (Amendment) Act, 1958, as amended.';"....The 1974 Act, referred to at present in section 39 (7) of the National Agricultural Advisory, Education...and Research Authority Act, 1977 merely inserted an amending subsection into section 2 of the Agriculture
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2009-02-17/23/
17 Feb 2009 -
and advisory services....In addition, higher level education courses in agriculture, horticulture, agribusiness, agricultural...All of Teagasc's education and training programmes are accredited within the national framework under...the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland...., the food industry and rural communities through their integrated research, advisory and education and
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-10-26/4/
26 Oct 1978 -
The previous Bill had two main objectives, to unify the advisory and educational services and secondly...With regard to the research service, it is accepted nationally and internationally that An Foras Talúntais...is the lack of education and the lack of an intensive advisory service....primary education; less than 2 per cent have the benefit of an agricultural education in one of our...For this reason I welcome this Bill as providing a unified and co-ordinated agricultural advisory service
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-06-29/175/
29 Jun 2011 -
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Deputy Simon Coveney) Under the Agriculture, (Research..., advisory and research services to the agriculture sector....its programmes, services and activities in conjunction with its clients and partners overseen by an Authority...Government policy on public service numbers and the need to achieve savings in the public service pay bill...courses in the agricultural colleges.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-10-20/29/
20 Oct 1976 -
The position in regard to discharges from agricultural activities is that agricultural waste, unless..., probably lies in the further development of advisory and educational services....The alternatives to local authority control which were suggested were control by a national body or by...It submitted its report on the Bill to the Minister on the 9th July, 1976....Under the Bill the Minister will be empowered, following consultation with the Ministers for Agriculture
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-04-28/3/
28 Apr 1988 -
The Bill will be successful if the body incorporating research, training, advice and education focuses...I repeat the view I held since this Bill was first suggested, that the advisory services must be maintained...There must not be any tampering with the advisory service or with the research area....When the advisory service or the researchers who are closest to the producers, who are the most important...As Members of this House who are members of local authorities will be aware, local authority officials
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1979-03-22/3/
22 Mar 1979 -
the reorganisation of the advisory, educational and research services of the State to streamline them...freedom of the institute within the overall structure of the national agricultural authority, at least...under the aegis of the national agricultural authority....The name of the national agricultural authority is being changed to AnCOT but it is essentially the same...for the overall development of research, education and advice on agriculture.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1957-12-12/6/
12 Dec 1957 -
I have often said that our agricultural education has now advanced considerably and if we could apply...their functions and provides the advisory officers throughout the country, educate them and supervise...present functions of the Department of Agriculture with regard to the advisory services, as outlined...research, which, I think, will have to be done by bigger nations than ours....in our small nation contemplate conducting fundamental research on that scale.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-10-26/4/
26 Oct 1978 -
The Bill endeavours to provide the greatest amount of research and education possible....In order to provide research and education the organisations involved must have a measure of independence...There must be an amalgamation of the resources of the county committees of agriculture, the advisory...The agricultural community must be allowed to contribute to national development....This Bill will make research facilities available to them to help them.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-04-07/5/
7 Apr 1976 -
In the case of university education, in addition to the special grants which average about £400 per eligible...There is also very heavy capital investment by the State in education, for example each additional place...This compares with an estimated amount of some £60 million which would have been their tax bill in 1976...Commission, and traders generally, without the approval of the National Prices Commission, increased...community generally—less than 1 per cent of agricultural incomes but about 18 per cent of non-agricultural
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-10-26/27/
26 Oct 1978 -
scope because they would be able to spend some time on research and some time in the advisory service...Research is just as important as advisory work....The importance of all this in the context of this advisory Bill is that any money spent by the Minister...It was mentioned that the National Agricultural Authority will be maintained in real terms but we have...In the final analysis this Bill is about agricultural development, it has nothing to do with who introduced
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2009-06-16/35/
16 Jun 2009 -
and advisory services....In addition, higher level education courses in agriculture, horticulture, agribusiness, agricultural...All of Teagasc's education and training programmes are accredited within the national framework under...the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland...., advisory and education and training programmes, the innovation and technology transfer necessary for
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1979-03-22/3/
22 Mar 1979 -
Agricultural Authority Act was passed here....The new agency is made up of the old National Agricultural Library (NAL), and three agencies, the Agricultural...In the previous Act, not only were we bringing together education, research and advisory work but we...Agricultural Authority....The Minister speaks about the work of An Foras Talúntais and then speaks about education and advisory
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1980-05-06/21/
6 May 1980 -
Allen) I move "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."...Section 42 of the National Agricultural Advisory, Education and Research Authority Act, 1977, provided...advisory and training services, the functions and orientation of committees of agriculture inevitably...A further task of committees will be to ensure that the new national service is responsive to the needs...I commend the Bill to the House.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1977-11-10/5/
10 Nov 1977 -
There is a research and development committee on which the IDA are represented together with the National...As this is a national matter it is very heartening that the Bill is being supported by all parties....We must be careful of any suggestion that research and development expenditure on agriculture should...We want to develop our research and development and part of that must be the human factor and the education...Bills to come before this House.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1957-12-12/4/
12 Dec 1957 -
itself in and encouraged agricultural research....research to interested persons, including, in particular, persons engaged in providing advisory services...The success of this programme of research will depend on an ample advisory service for farmers....Does research include marketing? Section 2 of the Bill does not make this clear....From those two definitions, it will be seen that ‘agricultural research' in this Bill includes investigation
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-05-12/8/
12 May 1976 -
It is not true to say the local authorities will be subject to no control under the Bill....I would like now to refer to the water pollution advisory council....They have given consideration to the question of an educational programme, with suitable publicity, aimed...The Industrial Development Authority, through the Institute for Industrial Research and Standards, carried...The following is an extract from page 6 of an edited form of the survey published in April, 1976: The
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1971-02-10/6/
10 Feb 1971 -
Science Council, the Higher Education Authority, our research institutes, our university and other higher...The National Science Council is, I think, responsible to the Minister for Finance directly; Industrial...under the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries....There is the point, I think, both in regard to the operation of the Higher Education Authority and of...promotion of knowledge and research in nuclear science there may well be educational considerations,
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-05-11/33/
11 May 1988 -
in relation to agricultural advice and research in such counties as Galway and Mayo....(Research, Training and Advice) Bill, 1987, Teagasc, An Foras um Thaighde, Oiliúint agus Comhairle Talmhaíochta...serious national effects....Recovery and, at the same time, dismantle the research and advisory infrastructure that might enable...and research functions in agriculture and the total withdrawal of research and advice from those who
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1988-06-01/10/
1 Jun 1988 -
To allow this Bill to become an Act which would make further provisions in relation to agricultural advisory...education and research services in something which I could accept because I believe that as a result...This Bill comes at a critical time in Irish agriculture....community and the agricultural sectors have failed us in the area of the national herd....and research.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-02-18/4/
18 Feb 1988 -
I do not want to see this happening in relation to the board of the new farming authority....He suggests that will be sufficient to cover the aspect of local advisory input....For example, in UCD, the faculty of agriculture — now under the aegis of the Higher Education Authority...I said at the outset there were two main aspects to the Bill....and agricultural industry generally?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-02-02/4/
2 Feb 1989 -
Bruton I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to promote the development...preparation for the creation of a single European market in 1992 by the encouragement of longterm leasing of agricultural...equity base; improved economic planning and development of the infrastructure; the co-ordination of research...Authority Act, 1971, the European Communities Act, 1972, the Finance Act, 1978, the Finance Act, 1982..., the Finance Act, 1985, the Finance Act, 1986, the Industrial Development Act, 1986, the National Development
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2008-06-17/402/
17 Jun 2008 -
COFORD, the national council for forestry research and development is a non-statutory agency whose remit...The National Milk Agency regulates, on a national basis, the supply of milk for liquid consumption....Teagasc, the agriculture and food development authority, is the national body with responsibility for...providing research, advisory and training services to the agriculture and food industry and rural communities...The Council membership reflects interests such as education, animal welfare, consumers and food safety
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1977-05-05/6/
5 May 1977 -
The Bill would set a limit of £500,000 on the amount of borrowings the authority could guarantee without...The second objective of the Bill is to provide an additional function to the authority, that of giving...that the authority may, with his approval, give assistance of a technical and advisory nature to developing...The Minister is pleased to see that for 1976 the authority exceeded the target of 17,000 new job approvals...I am confident that the passage of this Bill will be facilitated so that the authority can better carry
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1979-11-22/30/
22 Nov 1979 -
and educational services for agriculture....Therefore, decisions in relation to agricultural education are very important...., educational and research services....Agricultural Authority Act and before the Government changed, just after their defeat in the election..., he appointed a board to take up duty as the National Agricultural Authority.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-05-12/5/
12 May 1976 -
The alternatives which have been considered are control by a national board or by regional or river authorities...The Bill extends to discharges from agricultural activities....as slurry spreading, will probably lie in the further development of advisory and educational services...in this field, including the agricultural advisory services....As regards enforcement, the provisions of the Bill include power for local authorities to take steps
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-10-21/8/
21 Oct 1976 -
, 1976....They have power to help in salmon research through the Salmon Research Trust and they also help the Inland...An Foras Forbartha are responsible for environmental research....No. 12 is the Institute for Industrial Research and Standards who act in an advisory capacity in the...Young people should be educated in relation to the protection of the environment and reporting any matters
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-03-12/32/
12 Mar 2003 -
Because of the national importance of agriculture and the food industries and the need for public investment...education and the national accreditation of all Teagasc training programmes, has arrested the downward...research, training and advisory services and to allocate its resources in accordance with these priorities...However, that is entirely a matter within the remit of the Teagasc authority and is not one in which...still have a network of over 70 advisory and training centres nationwide as well as nine major research
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-02-16/400/
16 Feb 2010 -
and those of the ACELS have gone to the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland....Agency Higher Education & Training Awards Council (HETAC) Higher Education Authority (HEA)...Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology Irish Research Council for...in Education (NCTE) National Centre Guidance in Education (NCGE) National Council for Curriculum...and Assessment (NCCA) National Council for Special Education (NCSE) National Education Welfare
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1987-06-03/4/
3 Jun 1987 -
I welcome this opportunity to speak on the Bill....Research carried out by the specialists in Moore Park was conveyed to farmers by the advisory service...It is important that the Seanad recognises that any money voted by the House for education or research...into the agricultural field is more than repaid in terms of returns to the nation....Investment in agricultural education was more than repaid through agricultural exports.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-02-23/28/
23 Feb 1988 -
I have listened with interest on the intercom to the debate on this Bill so far and I am amazed that...I would like to know exactly what these proposals will mean in terms of the delivery of a research, education...and advisory service to the industry, to the agricultural industry in general, to the farming industry...and food industry is making to the national economy....could undermine the contribution which the major wealth producing sector of the economy can make to national
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2008-03-06/143/
6 Mar 2008 -
to the following agencies: Teagasc Responsibility for the procurement or provision of education, training...and advisory services in agriculture as well as responsibility to undertake, promote, encourage, assist..., co- ordinate, facilitate and review agricultural research and development including research and development...and Food Development Authority, under the Agriculture (Research, Training and Advice) Act, 1988....Research Technology Development and Innovation Measures under the National Development Plan 2007-2013
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1979-05-02/5/
2 May 1979 -
Ellis I welcome the Bill....Agricultural advice and education and research should be separate....If advice and research had been merged, as proposed in the 1977 Bill, one or the other would have been...With regard to the advisory service, it is a pity that so much of the time of agricultural advisers is...This Bill provides for the research and advisory services to continue working as two separate bodies
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-05-12/5/
12 May 1976 -
to turn a blind eye to its value, not only to the needs that we have for it but to its uses in the agricultural...doing a lot of good advisory service work...., education and proper advisory services geared towards the correction of any abuses as regards leakages...Perhaps we should provide resources in future towards the education of our children in realising that...I welcome this Bill and I can only wish it success in its implementation.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1980-06-04/9/
4 Jun 1980 -
Allen) The provisions of section 42 of the National Agriculture Advisory, Education and Research Authority...annual county advisory and training programme....Committees will also have the task of ensuring that An Chomhairle, as a national service, is also responsive...This new Bill, therefore, provides for early reconstitution of committees of agriculture on the new 60...I commend this Bill to the House.
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Debate: Committee Of Public Accounts
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/committee_of_public_accounts/2018-10-04/4/
4 Oct 2018 -
three components, namely, "to provide or procure educational, training, and advisory services in agriculture..., facilitate and review agricultural research and development (including research and development in...economy and development; advisory and extension; and education and training....It also has four colleges of further education and seven research centres....and advisory funds at national and EU level, advisory and education fees, farm operations, industry
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-10-27/23/
27 Oct 1976 -
and Standards and a report was published in April, 1976....Local authorities were requested in July, 1976, to identify the bathing areas to which the directive...pollution is concerned, the machinery is already available to secure the necessary co-ordination at national...Most Members referred to the need for an educational programme directed at the protection of the environment...Educational measures and publicity will, I believe, result in a greater understanding of the problem
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1974-07-18/9/
18 Jul 1974 -
Their principal function is servicing and maintaining agricultural, educational, instructional and development...The vast increase in technical know-how and agricultural education requires adequate finance....I would imagine that any committee of agriculture, while diligent in promoting its advisory services...Agriculture and the advisory services are of paramount national importance and struggling committees...from the Central Fund rather than trying to raise it, as will be the case, through the relevant local authorities
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1988-06-08/20/
8 Jun 1988 -
The Bill abolishes county committees of agriculture which were set up under the ACOT Bill....They, in turn, were served at national level by the General Council of Agricultural Committees, another...It is a shame, considering the service the general council has given to the agricultural industry, to...I am including local authority members who have expertise in this area, farming organisations, such as..., acting in an advisory capacity.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-10-26/27/
26 Oct 1978 -
There is a distinct difference between agriculture as carried on in western areas and agriculture as...Do people really care what title is given to a Bill or what words are inserted in a Bill as long as the...The National Agricultural Authority is to be dissolved....People are under the impression that the various agricultural services should be co-ordinated and research...It is proposed in the Bill to charge farmers for services given by agricultural advisers.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1975-12-17/2/
17 Dec 1975 -
this stage, and which reads: That Seanad Éireann notes with concern the deteriorating state of the national...Motion No. 36 states: That Seanad Éireann notes the White Paper on the National Agricultural Advisory..., Education and Research Authority....assurance when I put down that motion that it would be discussed in this House prior to the Minister for Agriculture
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1991-10-24/14/
24 Oct 1991 -
national reputation....Johnstown has had a distinguished place in the whole area of advisory services and research....as well as for its research of plant disorders....education and research under the terms of the Johnstown Castle Agriculture Act, 1945....At that time it provided advice to local authorities of the kind envisaged in this Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-02-18/4/
18 Feb 1988 -
They did important work in the advisory, educational and training area which was fully recognised by...recognised by the Fine Gael Party, as was also the continuing major role of An Foras Talúntais in the research...It is said at paragraph 2.36 of that document: Given the importance of agriculture to the Irish economy...in terms of product, trade and employment, significant national growth will be much more difficult to...Later at paragraph 2.44 that document confirms as follows: With the progressive raising of the educational
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-10-26/4/
26 Oct 1978 -
to include the word "education" in the Title of this Bill....need for education in agriculture....I believe the most important function of the new authority is the education of young farmers and this...If we have a demand for agricultural education and we have not the facilities to give that education,...It is absolutely essential to insert the word "education" in this Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1960-02-10/5/
10 Feb 1960 -
committees dealing with (a) religion, (b) national culture and language, (c) the form and content...of advertisements, (d) the welfare and education of children, and (e) agriculture....The Minister may, after consultation with the Authority, appoint other advisory committees or advisers...The same applies to the various other committees, such as education, very specialised education, say,..., (d) the welfare and education of children and (e) agriculture.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1977-11-10/5/
10 Nov 1977 -
We have the Agricultural Institute with their seven research stations that are known to everybody in...I believe that around the county development teams we could build up some sort of advisory service relating...back to some sort of machinery for doing research....I know we have the Institute for Industrial Research and Standards....We should tap those pools of labour, educate them and continue to absorb the young people leaving school
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-10-27/23/
27 Oct 1976 -
the Short Title should be changed to read "Local Government (Water Pollution Control) Bill, 1976" because...By virtue of the fact that the local authority will, under this Bill, be given the power to control pollution...Section 22 is one of the cornerstones of the Bill because it matters little if local authorities issue...A number of Deputies referred to education and publicity....shown in provincial areas, and was made part of a good publicity campaign that would embrace schools, national
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1998-11-24/7/
24 Nov 1998 -
Martin A Minister is not obliged to respond within a month to the recommendations of advisory bodies...which have been established to date, for example the Higher Education Authority, and this is for good...There needs to be discussion with the body giving advice about its research and other matters....education and welfare Bill which will, for the first time ever, create a nationwide service to deal...The other key structure is a national educational psychological service.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-05-12/8/
12 May 1976 -
Some people favour control by a national board, others by regional or river authorities....The Parliamentary Secretary is probably right when he says that it is only through the agricultural advisory...service and the education of the people concerned that this kind of problem can be solved....for Agriculture and Fisheries....The same applies to the IDA and the Institute for Industrial Research and Standards."
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1967-12-14/4/
14 Dec 1967 -
The agricultural advisory service attempts to bridge this gap by giving farmers proper help to improve...Any national programme for research in agriculture on a scale which we generally recognise to be necessary...authorities the taking of decisions about the development of their farms....This authority will be financed with long-term capital to be provided by the Exchequer....of Agriculture and Fisheries Advisory Service, the Agricultural Credit Corporation, the Department of
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-06-19/14/
19 Jun 2014 -
Deputy Tom Hayes Teagasc has statutory responsibility for the provision of education, research and...advisory services to the agricultural sector....Programmes and activities are developed in conjunction with clients and partners overseen by an authority..., institutes of technology and others, to deliver quality-driven education courses in agriculture, food...staff to the agricultural colleges and subcontracting the delivery of specific education modules across
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Debate: Joint Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2018-10-23/2/
23 Oct 2018 -
Its remit is to conduct research into agricultural production and food processing and deliver advisory...and advisory funds at national and EU level....It also includes advisory and education fees, income from farm profits, industry and professional levies...Teagasc has seven research centres which cover diverse agricultural and food-related issues....Teagasc has six operational programmes which are hugely important from a research, advisory and training
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-04-07/5/
7 Apr 1976 -
There is provision in the Bill to impose tax on agricultural and fishing co-operatives....essential part of the car and perhaps he might have to dump it with the Garda or the local registration authorities...from 6th April, 1976....or non-agricultural....The proposals in this Bill are so damaging to the national interest that it cannot get the support of
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-11-09/27/
9 Nov 1978 -
Its purpose is to make better provision for agricultural advice, training and research and for that purpose...We need a lot more education, advice, training and research for our farmers before we reach such a happy...in the Act which brought research, education and training together under one body and amalgamated An...of banks or lending authorities but rather to educate them to going back to their father's farms and...The Bill, as introduced, differed from Deputy Clinton's Bill in giving very considerable authority to
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-11-04/4/
4 Nov 1976 -
O'Malley The proposal to restructure the National Science Council in a statutory body as the National...It is essential, therefore, that the encouragement and financing of scientific and technological research...Agriculture and industry, if they are even to remain competitive in today's European Community and in...heads of a Bill which hopefully will be introduced here reasonably soon by the Minister for Education...One of the great difficulties encountered by people doing scientific and technological research is that
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-17/10/
17 Jun 1976 -
A great deal could be said about the production of our bloodstock and the methods, techniques, research...It is not just a public monument and not just a nice national tourist centre....I am afraid I must say the obligations of the Government of the day, the Minister for Agriculture and...It is a report made by a committee of inquiry set up in Britain by the joint turf authorities....It went on to outline how that authority should be constituted and what its functions should be.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1988-06-08/20/
8 Jun 1988 -
Ferris As a result of this section my colleagues in the other House called a division on the Bill in...For ACOT the State input was about £10.5 million; the local authorities put in £3.9 million; the EC funding...the industry as we know it will be undermined, that we will reduce the number of farmers without the advisory...We expect that this smaller funding will diminish the contribution that agriculture can make to the national...based farmers paying for a service but I have concern for family farmers who need advice, service and research
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-07/5/
7 Jul 1976 -
Barry) The purpose of the Bill is to set up a statutory national gas board which will be the national...gas for the Nitrigin Éireann Teoranta project will assure supply of nitrogenous fertiliser to Irish agriculture...Accordingly, the Government decided early last year that a national gas authority should be established...The consultancy services being provided by British Gas are mainly of an advisory nature, covering matters...The services of the Institute for Industrial Research and Standards have been retained by BGE to monitor
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-03-03/33/
3 Mar 1988 -
for all research, advisory and training services....Because the import content of agricultural products is so low agricultural exports make an even greater...I hope the new authority will place great emphasis on job potential in the agricultural industry....deals with practically every aspect of farming — dairying, cattle, sheep, tillage, horticulture, pigs, education...opportune time for the Minister to ascertain from ACOT how far they have gone in achieving their targets at national
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-04-07/25/
7 Apr 1976 -
Member nations can lay down rules and regulations in relation to value-added tax they put on certain...Yesterday the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education said the intention was to get rid...That is one of the strongest reasons why I will vote against this Bill....that although he is paying more for it now, the man who produces it is not getting anything extra in 1976...This Bill is being discussed at a time when local authorities all over the country do not know how they
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-05-16/21/
16 May 2006 -
within the remit of the Higher Education Authority, will support an integrated and cohesive strategic...line for technological sector research and established the two national research councils....A national research plan is in the advanced stages of preparation....and agencies, educational and otherwise, involved in research....The various research strands provide the knowledge and skills for national innovation on which future
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1971-02-18/6/
18 Feb 1971 -
There is need for more contact on a regional basis between the Agricultural Research Institute, the various...local authorities, the other services of the Department, and the advisers themselves....of reports from the advisory service....I strongly suggest to the Minister that the Agricultural Research Institute, while it certainly should...It should be formally recognised as the prime body having full authority in relation to research work
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-05-12/5/
12 May 1976 -
My view on the Rivers Lee and Liffey is that they are a national disgrace....The other type of discharge is the agricultural effluent....I agree that more education, greater realisation of the dangers and more help with the farm advisory...There is provision for the establishment of a water pollution advisory council which I welcome....Later on in the Bill there is a provision for setting up a water quality control authority.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-11-16/133/
16 Nov 2006 -
Teagasc: The First Schedule of the Agriculture (Research, Training and Advice) Act, 1988 provides for...the appointment by the Minister of the Chairman and 10 ordinary members to the Teagasc Authority...., agricultural research, education, food processing, the food processing industry or the management of...and Directors of the Irish National Stud....The National Stud Act, 1976, provides that the number of Directors (including the Chairman) shall not
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-14/3/
14 Jul 1976 -
Local authorities also play a small part in this....are at least able to cater for themselves, but when people are maimed or sick it is the duty of a nation...It would be money well invested for a nation to try to get over that problem....many professional people qualify at our universities and on third-level strata and are helped in their education...It is not good enough in 1976, despite all our third-level education, that we would have this scarcity
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1957-12-12/6/
12 Dec 1957 -
Then we have the routine research which might be set down to specialist advisory work....farms, or the institute might get the authorities in the schools to carry out a good deal of demonstration...Some ideas along those lines might profitably have been incorporated in the Bill....According to the 1953 Report issued by F.A.O. on the organisation of agricultural research in Europe,...university, especially University College, Cork, and also of the Association of the Graduates of the National
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-05-25/35/
25 May 2010 -
and food industries through the provision of research, advisory and education services to farmers and...Great strides have been made in agricultural education in recent years....All of Teagasc's education and training programmes are fully accredited by the National Qualifications...Authority of Ireland....This new model for agricultural education is being implemented.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-05-26/7/
26 May 1976 -
There is no comparison between the Finance Bills of the past and the Finance Bills of today....I see no provision in the Bill for error....This is a young and poor nation out on the periphery of Europe....We have a fairly successful educational system. Young people are now well educated....They are equipped and geared to meet the challenge of the future but, when they have completed their education
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1987-03-25/3/
25 Mar 1987 -
Higgins The first thing I want to say about this Bill is that I am sure everybody subscribes to the...There is indeed a body of research put together in Holland as to what happens when advisory services...Overall in the country we are taking out of the advisory services available the education side of agriculture...What is the meaning of the phrase "cost-effective advisory and educational resources will be maintained...Why not say that for farms below £60 PLV, there will be no charge and that the advisory and educational
