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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Data (13 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: 474. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount paid out under the GLAS scheme; the number of recipients in each of the years 2008 to 2017; and the payments forecast for persons in each of the years 2018 to 2023. [6996/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Courses (13 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: 475. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding provided to Teagasc for the purposes of training young farmers in each of the years 2008 to 2017. [6997/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Partnerships (13 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: 518. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of succession farm partnerships that have been announced since the scheme was established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7493/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (13 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: 520. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost of the dairy sector pilot project run by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland in collaboration with Teagasc conducted in 2017; the number of persons in receipt of payments from the scheme; his plans to sustain and expand the scheme; and the funding allocated for same in 2018. [6998/18]

National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (7 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: Earlier today I was considering the current situation compared with what it was a year ago when there were three bidders in this process. SIRO pulled out for its own reasons and Eir has also now withdrawn. We are left with just one bidder in this process to provide broadband to the most difficult to reach parts of the country, areas that have the most potential because they are so...

Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (7 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: Two of the children who use this drug are in the Public Gallery. One of them is from Leitrim and one from Kilkenny. Both of them are very anxious and worried that they have not got any decision. They really depend on getting this drug approved. There are only three children in the country using it. I appeal for something to happen in this regard.

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: There are people in the Gallery today from the Irish MPS Society who suffer from the condition Morquio. They were here some months ago when we raised the issue of a drug called Vimizim with the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health, who unfortunately is in a committee today. Only three children in the country use this drug. The matter was before a special health committee about three weeks...

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: It is the national drugs committee.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (7 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: 236. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the future economic benefit to farmers, landowners and the local community in County Leitrim after the forestry premiums on the 28,000 hectares of forest plantations in the county stop and the land is clear felled and replanted; if the next generation of forest owners will have to wait 30 years for a return on their investment; and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Process: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: I thank the witnesses for coming in and for their presentation. I have read through the review of the aquaculture licence process and it seems to be a very good document. To someone who is not an expert in the field, the recommendations in it are common sense. They set out a pathway forward to try to resolve this issue. I was shocked To learn the length of time it takes for a person to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Process: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: I did not get an answer to one of my questions. Is there a plan to implement the report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Process: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Process: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: Are there independent or private consultants who specialise in preparing the applications?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Process: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: I understand the backlog must be dealt with.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Process: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: While I understand that there is a backlog to deal with, there seems to be resistance - and I would be delighted to be corrected - to the implementation of this report. There seems to be an attitude that the Department will deal with and implement the report when it has completed the other work of issuing the 300 licences that it wants to issue. I would like reassurance that that is not the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Process: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: I would like to get clarification on two points, if that is possible. Of the 600 licence applications that are in backlog, did Dr. Beamish say that 40% of them are new? Are the remaining 60% of them renewals? Is that the approximate position?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Process: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: It has been ten to 11 years since the judgment and these people's position has been frozen. Were they entitled to, or have they received, grant aid through the programme? They could continue to operate under the terms of the old licence as they did not have a new licence, but were they entitled to get grant aid and to apply for it through the normal mechanisms throughout that time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Process: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: Those people would probably have had applications pending. I take it that once they get their new licences, their applications will be processed. Would that be the case for some of them at least-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Process: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: -----or were they denied even the opportunity to apply?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (6 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: 482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of loans that have been approved for the purchase of land; the county in which the land is to be purchased under the low cost loan scheme from the European Investment Bank and the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund that is being managed by a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5783/18]