Results 61-80 of 95 for waste management speaker:Michael Creed
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: With your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I will ask a question that is relevant to the Order of Business. The Estimate provides for only â¬125 million under farm waste management. It requires in the region of â¬230 million to facilitate a payment of 40%. I think the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food would confirm that that figure is about correct. Will there be a...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (24 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 431: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he proposes to make the first 40% instalment payment under the farm waste management scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7496/09]
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (24 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 433: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish on a county basis the number of applicants awaiting payment under the farm waste management scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7508/09]
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: ...cuts, a public service levy and charges on health professionals. As Fine Gael's agriculture spokesman, I am most concerned about the section of the Bill that will defer payments under the farm waste management scheme. We have to acknowledge that these economic times are unprecedented in the history of the State. We have almost run out of appropriate terminology to describe it. I do not...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (11 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: ...of the negotiations he, his Department officials or Department of Finance officials are engaged in with Irish banks regarding moneys due to farmers under the farm investment scheme, the farm waste management scheme and REP scheme four; if he accepts the clear contractual obligation on him to honour these commitments in a timely manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4953/09]
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (11 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 259: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment under the farm waste management scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5252/09]
- Farm Waste Management. (11 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of money required by his Department to meet its full outstanding liabilities under the farm waste management scheme and the farm investment scheme respectively; the amount provided to each scheme in his Department's Estimates for 2009; if, in view of the financial hardship being experienced by individual farmers...
- Farm Waste Management. (11 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: ...here he will continue to do so as he will return to a Cabinet meeting. That policy should inform every Department and the way in which they approach such issues. Paying the farmers their farm waste management scheme grants would, in effect, recapitalise the banks. The farmers will take the grant with one hand and hand it with the other to the bank managers to whom they owe money. My...
- Farm Waste Management. (11 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: ...â¬33,000 would have told the Minister what his Department Estimate required. The Minister is in Cabinet and he and his colleagues are contemplating recapitalising the banks. Payment of the farm waste management scheme will recapitalise the banks, indirectly. I assure him that 99% of payments he will make out will go into banks. Let us get down to brass tacks. I have had individual...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (10 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 551: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork, who is awaiting payment under the farm waste management scheme, will receive payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4637/09]
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (10 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 552: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when persons (details supplied) in County Cork, who is awaiting payment of grants under both the farm waste management scheme and the farm investment scheme, will receive payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4638/09]
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (10 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 567: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment under the farm waste management scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5050/09]
- Order of Business (10 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: ...money that the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food failed to provide in the Estimates. It is a very serious issue. Thousands of farmers are owed more than â¬400 million under the farm waste management scheme alone. They are owed money by the State which is in breach of its contractual commitments to those farmers.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (28 Jan 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 279: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason for the delay in the farm waste management scheme grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2678/09]
- Written Answers — Fishing Industry Development: Fishing Industry Development (27 Jan 2009)
Michael Creed: ...1265: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to improve the marine environment by implementing environmental and inshore management systems and supporting efficient waste management, environmentally friendly fishing gear and technical innovation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47729/08]
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2009)
Michael Creed: ââto pay the State's liability on farm waste management schemes?
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2009)
Michael Creed: In that context, will the Government introduce a Supplementary Estimate to deal with the shortfall in the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to fund the farm waste management scheme?
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (27 Jan 2009)
Michael Creed: ...adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the failure of the Government to provide sufficient funding to meet the requirements of the farm waste management scheme to the tune of â¬450 million.
- Agriculture: Motion (2 Dec 2008)
Michael Creed: ...regard is needed, people need only consult the Exchequer figures published today. Fine Gael is also aware that difficult choices must be made, that spending must reflect value for money and that waste must be eliminated. For many years, ours has been the lone voice on this side of the House to preach caution and frugality with taxpayers' money. As a result of Government recklessness,...
- Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: ...in the points made on local employment by Deputy Tom Hayes. This has been a bad week for farmers. Most Fianna Fáil Deputies refused to address the issue at the heart of this debate about the farm waste management scheme. Let me digress and take the same liberty for a moment. It has been a bad week for young farmers. Some 92% of farm holdings are held by persons who are over 35 years...