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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Ireland Investigations (11 Nov 2015)

Martin Ferris: 159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources why the Inland Fisheries Ireland did not seek to prosecute the Electricity Supply Board for the events of 15 May 2014 at the Cathleen’s Falls dam at Ballyshannon, County Donegal, where some 300 000 elver eels were killed; and if this kill was a result of poor management by the Electricity Supply Board....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (10 Nov 2015)

Martin Ferris: 233. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the rationale and justification for the actions of the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority in seizing the catches of a company (details supplied) on 10 and 30 October 2015, and in selling the confiscated catches. [39000/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (10 Nov 2015)

Martin Ferris: 234. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the proceeds of the sale of the fish confiscated from a company (details supplied) by the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority on 10 and 30 October 2015. [39001/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (10 Nov 2015)

Martin Ferris: 235. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that a person (details supplied) has a firmly held moral objection to dumping good fish, but has logged all his catches and is so aiding the collection of scientific data regarding stocks and quotas. [39002/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (10 Nov 2015)

Martin Ferris: 236. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to press criminal charges against a person (details supplied) following the seizure of a fish catch. [39003/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (10 Nov 2015)

Martin Ferris: 495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to explain the reason a school (details supplied) in County Kerry has lost its Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools, DEIS, status following its amalgamation with another school, resulting in an increase of two pupils on its roll; if she is aware that the school is highlighted as a model of best practice as a rural disadvantaged...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ambulance Service Provision (5 Nov 2015)

Martin Ferris: 172. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who is paralysed from the chest down is transported by ambulance from the person's home to the Mater Hospital in Dublin 7 on 5 November 2015. [38712/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Direct Payment Scheme Applications (3 Nov 2015)

Martin Ferris: 392. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the areas of natural constraint scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37291/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (3 Nov 2015)

Martin Ferris: 436. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the areas of natural constraint scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37848/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Garda Investigations (20 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: 301. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will instruct the Garda Síochána fraud squad to investigate the issue of milk quota irregularities involving a person (details supplied) in County Kildare and a company involving 500,000 l of milk. [36323/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Improvement Scheme Eligibility (13 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: 101. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are supports for farmers for land reclamation and drainage; and if that support extends beyond pipe drainage to alternative methods such a stone drainage. [35200/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (13 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: 240. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new applications for home help, in tabular form, that were approved for each of the past six months in County Kerry. [35316/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (13 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: 241. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new applications for home help, in tabular form, that were approved but not allocated due to financial constraints for each of the past six months in County Kerry [35317/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beekeeping Industry (8 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: 78. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered a ban on bee imports due to the danger to the Irish bee population from disease in imported bee stocks. [35008/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (8 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position of funding for a school (details supplied) in County Kerry which has recently received planning permission to build a new school building. [35010/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (7 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: 9. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason, if his Department is encouraging farmers to use controlled burning as an option for land management, that when a green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme planner recommends controlled burning, it results in his Department deeming land as potentially ineligible for payment under the basic payment scheme and the natural...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector (7 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: 17. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on concerns regarding the decline in profitability in the dairy sector; the European Union's refusal to increase intervention prices; and the action he proposes to take on this matter. [34216/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (7 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: 18. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on his Department using the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme as a means to reduce participants’ claimable area and that of their neighbours who are not participating in the scheme. [34212/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (7 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: 19. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the list of stocking rate calculations for commonages; respond to criticism that his Department officials are unable to provide clear guidance as to whether the stock that is carried on the commonage should include all stock, from both green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme, GLAS, and non-GLAS participants;...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (7 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: 25. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason if green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme planners are qualified by his Department to make the maximum eligible area assessment, they are insisting on re-assessing the planner’s reduction with a departmental inspection. [34215/15]