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	<title>Requests to move Adjournment of D&Atilde;&iexcl;il under Standing Order 32 | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.171.0&amp;m=207#g179.0</link>
	<description>Zero tolerance.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="179.1">Zero tolerance.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T16:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Suckler Cow Welfare Scheme. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.143.0&amp;m=207#g150.2</link>
	<description>The Minister can accept it, but will he implement it?</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="150.2">The Minister can accept it, but will he implement it?</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T16:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Suckler Cow Welfare Scheme. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.143.0&amp;m=207#g148.2</link>
	<description>I appreciate that the Government and the Department are having to operate under difficult financial constraints.  The Minister will accept that beef production is a marginal enterprise.  It is a...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="148.2">I appreciate that the Government and the Department are having to operate under difficult financial constraints.  The Minister will accept that beef production is a marginal enterprise.  It is a part-time enterprise for many people.  Will the Minister consider revising the terms of the suckler cow welfare scheme so that an â‚¬80 level of payment can be guaranteed to all farmers for their first 20, 25 or 30 suckler cows?  That would ensure that the maximum benefit would accrue to smaller producers, in particular.  The level of payment under the scheme could be tapered downwards for applications that are made in respect of greater numbers of animals.  The needs of smaller producers should be prioritised because their capacity to retain an income from farming depends on whether they can draw the maximum amount from this scheme.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T16:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Grant Payments. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.128.0&amp;m=207#g132.3</link>
	<description>I thank the Minister of State for his reply and welcome the Department&acirc;€™s decision, albeit somewhat belatedly, to reallocate the proportion of the 900 hectares not taken up in respect of willow...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="132.2">I thank the Minister of State for his reply and welcome the Departmentâ€™s decision, albeit somewhat belatedly, to reallocate the proportion of the 900 hectares not taken up in respect of willow planting.  I wish to ask two supplementary questions of the Minister of State.</p><p pid="132.3">Has the Department conducted an analysis of the reason take-up in respect of willow planting is not similar to that in respect of miscanthus planting?  It may be that willow planting is less attractive owing to cost and the lead-in time in terms of harvesting, which is longer.  In this regard, if we move from a pilot phase to an established grant aid scheme for these green energy crops, will the Minister of State consider increasing the incentive for willow, which has great potential as a green energy crop?  Will the Minister of State consider moving the scheme from a pilot phase to the introduction of a broadly available grant scheme?  Also, has he considered the reason willow has not been availed of to the same extent as miscanthus?</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T16:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Grant Payments. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.128.0&amp;m=207#g130.2</link>
	<description>Perhaps the Minister of State will read out the reply this time.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="130.2">Perhaps the Minister of State will read out the reply this time.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Fishing Industry Development. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.99.0&amp;m=207#g112.2</link>
	<description>He wanted to answer a question he was not asked.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="112.2">He wanted to answer a question he was not asked.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Fishing Industry Development. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.99.0&amp;m=207#g108.2</link>
	<description>The Minister should answer the question instead of waffling.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="108.2">The Minister should answer the question instead of waffling.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Fishing Industry Development. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.99.0&amp;m=207#g106.2</link>
	<description>This is outrageous. </description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="106.2">This is outrageous. </p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Common Agricultural Policy. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.79.0&amp;m=207#g95.2</link>
	<description>&acirc;€”&acirc;€”to give a signal to the industry that it would be available to it next year.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="95.2">â€”â€”to give a signal to the industry that it would be available to it next year.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Common Agricultural Policy. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.79.0&amp;m=207#g93.2</link>
	<description>On a point of order, the Minister does not need the specifics&acirc;€”&acirc;€”</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="93.2">On a point of order, the Minister does not need the specificsâ€”â€”</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Common Agricultural Policy. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.79.0&amp;m=207#g91.2</link>
	<description>I do not accept that.  The French have done it</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="91.2">I do not accept that.  The French have done it</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Common Agricultural Policy. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.79.0&amp;m=207#g88.2</link>
	<description>We do not need to do that.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="88.2">We do not need to do that.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.79.0&amp;m=207#g86.2">
	<title>Common Agricultural Policy. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.79.0&amp;m=207#g86.2</link>
	<description>The Fianna F&Atilde;&iexcl;il 2007 general election manifesto promised &acirc;‚&not;27.5 million for the sheep industry to tackle the type of issues specifically identified in the Malone report, particularly the issue...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="86.2">The Fianna FĂˇil 2007 general election manifesto promised â‚¬27.5 million for the sheep industry to tackle the type of issues specifically identified in the Malone report, particularly the issue of the alarming decline in the number of breeding ewes in the country.  That would have been the correct strategic decision to make.  While I accept that the â‚¬7 million available is nowhere near adequate, it would have sent the type of message necessary to stabilise sheep numbers and give some indication that, for example, in 2010, as the French Minister for Agriculture has already done, the unspent CAP funds in 2010 would be targeted in that direction also.  Would the Minister not accept even at this late stage that he should send a signal to the industry that there will be a reward in 2010 for maintaining the number of breeding ewes on any farm and that that reward will be the ring-fencing of unspent CAP funds, which will in 2010 be in the region of â‚¬29 million to farmers who will maintain their breeding ewe numbers for that season?</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Common Agricultural Policy. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.79.0&amp;m=207#g84.2</link>
	<description>Why did the Minister not link it to ewe numbers?</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="84.2">Why did the Minister not link it to ewe numbers?</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.79.0&amp;m=207#g82.2">
	<title>Common Agricultural Policy. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.79.0&amp;m=207#g82.2</link>
	<description>A maximum payment of &acirc;‚&not;525 per sheep farmer will do nothing to arrest the alarming decline in sheep numbers and in particular the decimation of sheep stock with the slaughter of ewes in recent...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="82.2">A maximum payment of â‚¬525 per sheep farmer will do nothing to arrest the alarming decline in sheep numbers and in particular the decimation of sheep stock with the slaughter of ewes in recent years.  The Ministerâ€™s decision is motivated more by the numbers game rather than any strategic analysis of what the industry needs and flies in the face of the Malone report, for example, which clearly indicated the problems.  What the Minister gives with one hand he takes away with the other.  As late as last Monday at the Agriculture and Fisheries Council he decided to proceed with the compulsory electronic tagging of sheep which will take away more than the â‚¬525, which is the maximum payment.  How can the Minister claim that what he is delivering to sheep farmers will in any way address the critical structural problems in the industry, which are the exodus of farmers from the industry and the need to ensure the breeding population is maintained in order sustain the off-farm employment associated with the industry?</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Common Agricultural Policy. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.79.0&amp;m=207#g80.0</link>
	<description>Question 47: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food  the way he will allocate the unspent CAP funds in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter.  [12211/09]</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="80.0"><i>Question 47:</i> To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food  the way he will allocate the unspent CAP funds in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter.  <b>[12211/09]</b></p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Farm Waste Management. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.53.0&amp;m=207#g77.2</link>
	<description>So there will be a Supplementary Estimate.  There will be no cutbacks in the Department.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="77.2">So there will be a Supplementary Estimate.  There will be no cutbacks in the Department.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Farm Waste Management. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.53.0&amp;m=207#g74.2</link>
	<description>&acirc;€”&acirc;€”the manner in which the Minister will finance the commitments made in view of the shortfall.  Will he confirm the shortfall is &acirc;‚&not;105 million?  Will there be a Supplementary Estimate?</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="74.2">â€”â€”the manner in which the Minister will finance the commitments made in view of the shortfall.  Will he confirm the shortfall is â‚¬105 million?  Will there be a Supplementary Estimate?</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Farm Waste Management. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.53.0&amp;m=207#g72.2</link>
	<description>How will the Government make up the shortfall?  A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, are we not entitled to an answer to the question on the Questions Order Paper, which asks&acirc;€”&acirc;€”</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="72.2">How will the Government make up the shortfall?  A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, are we not entitled to an answer to the question on the Questions Order Paper, which asksâ€”â€”</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Farm Waste Management. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-24.53.0&amp;m=207#g70.2</link>
	<description>How?</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="70.2">How?</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-24T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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