Results 3,561-3,580 of 4,024 for speaker:Martin Kenny
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Martin Kenny: I apologise for being late. Having read through the Minister's opening statement, I see he raised the marketing campaign of Bord Bia. I am very conscious that today the European Commission has banned imports into Europe of beef and meat products from four companies in Brazil.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Martin Kenny: Yes.
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: As the Taoiseach will be aware, in the programme for Government there is a commitment to ensure that the Irish agrifood sector finds new markets and develops everywhere around the world. In recent days, we have an issue in regard to Brazilian beef and poultry. There is a scandal in that country where they find that there are many people being bribed and so on to allow substandard product be...
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: Yes, all meat products from Brazil until this is cleared up.
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: They are being breached.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) is not designated as a DEIS school. [13008/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Subsidies (21 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: 1023. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of each of the sub sectors of agriculture to which the Common Agriculture Policy 2014 - 2020 is allocated; the associated amounts allocated to each sub sector; the amount of matching funding made available in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and for 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Exceptional Needs Payments (21 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: 1025. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the other subsectors within farming that have received allocations from the European Commission for each of the years 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019; the sub sectors in which co-financing is also available with regard to the European Commission's announcement in July 2016 that it would support Irish farmers affected by the...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Direct Payment Scheme (21 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: 1037. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address matters (details supplied) with regard to the European Commission's figures on direct payments for 2015. [13202/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (21 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: 1082. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of cases of mycoplasma bovis that have been brought to the attention of his Department for each year since 2007, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13775/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (21 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: 1083. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his Department’s strategy for containing the mycoplasma bovis disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13776/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (21 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: 1084. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports that his Department provides to farmers who discover mycoplasma bovis disease in their herds; if his Department offers preventative guidance to farmers in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13777/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Animal Disease Controls (9 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: 13. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, in view of the fact the disease control measures for avian influenza are being implemented on an all-Ireland basis, he will lift the compulsory housing order on poultry on 16 March 2017 as is being done in Northern Ireland. [12338/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Review (9 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: 2. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that in the current review of areas of natural constraint the designation of mountain-type land will be retained; and if he will ensure payments in line with the more severe natural constraints in these areas. [12478/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Exports (9 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: 15. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the prices being received by Irish farmers are not reflective of the quality of produce (details supplied); and his further views on whether the marketing of Irish meat is placing sufficient emphasis on the unique quality of the produce in a European Union context. [12339/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Suckler Cow Sector (9 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: 43. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to seek a €200-per-head payment for suckler cows in the review of the Common Agricultural Policy. [12337/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (9 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) is not designated as a DEIS school. [12511/17]
- European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: Most of my remarks will be around the situation in the North of Ireland, the situation with regard to permanent structured co-operation and the whole issue of the militarisation of Europe. Last week's election in the North was historic. The results have transformed the political landscape on that part of our island. The Unionist majority in the Northern Ireland Assembly is gone. The...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Waiting Lists (8 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: 93. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the waiting lists for diagnosis by the child and adolescent mental health service in counties Sligo and Leitrim. [12136/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Staff (8 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: 99. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide adequate staffing for the child and adolescent mental health service in the Sligo Leitrim region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12135/17]