Results 5,461-5,480 of 7,670 for speaker:Jackie Cahill
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Jackie Cahill: I urge the Minister not to try covering up the inadequacies of the scheme. The farmer who should have received the payment did not get it. The agent who bought the cattle sold them on using a farmer number, which means that the Department is not enforcing its regulations in respect of dealers.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Jackie Cahill: I did not say that; all I am saying is that the farmer who was entitled to the payment did not get it.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Jackie Cahill: Dealers have got the payment, that is all I can say. That has been relayed to the Department in writing.
- Report on Examination of School Costs, School Facilities and Teaching Principals: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2019)
Jackie Cahill: I commend Deputy O'Loughlin and the joint committee on this report and the recommendations therein. We in Fianna Fáil are calling for the enactment of the recommendations. The ongoing failure to adequately fund the day-to-day running of our schools is having a real and lasting impact on pupils, staff and parents. It is undermining the long-established tradition of free education...
- Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Jackie Cahill: Thankfully the housing crisis and the issues causing it are at the top of the agenda this week. Statistics have been quoted by all sides over recent days and they are irrefutable. The housing policy of Fine Gael and this Government since 2016, and the previous Fine Gael-led Government from 2011 to 2016, has been acknowledged as a failure. Unfortunately, ordinary people are suffering as a...
- Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Jackie Cahill: Fianna Fáil is committed to facilitating and enabling home ownership. A strong affordability scheme is vital to securing that. Recent stories about first-time buyers struggling to access credit from banks highlight the need for greater State supports. Fianna Fáil supports the Central Bank rules and its independence. However, we need greater involvement from the Government in...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2019)
Jackie Cahill: At a small schools symposium held in June 2019, the Minister for Education and Skills gave a commitment to carrying out a review of the resources needed for small schools. Could we get a commitment that teacher numbers will not be reduced in those smaller schools until this review is completed?
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Woodland Improvement Scheme (5 Dec 2019)
Jackie Cahill: 298. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount allocated and expended on the woodland improvement scheme in each year since it was established; and if a new woodland improvement environmental enhancement scheme has been introduced to date. [50705/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Data (5 Dec 2019)
Jackie Cahill: 376. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated first year and full year cost of adapting the farm assist scheme (details supplied) based on latest annual data regarding participation levels in the scheme and associated afforestation programmes. [50672/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Protection Areas Designation (5 Dec 2019)
Jackie Cahill: 424. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the carbon sequestration potential of designated land, including hen harrier designated land, has been examined with respect to permitting some planting on such land. [50706/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Raised Bog Management Plan (5 Dec 2019)
Jackie Cahill: 425. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to compensate farmers with land that has been affected by the reflooding of a bog; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50782/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (4 Dec 2019)
Jackie Cahill: 183. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers and young farmers in particular who have applied for a loan from the €1 billion loan scheme announced by the European Commissioner for Trade on 19 April 2019; the value of funds drawn down; the value of funds awaiting drawdown following the loan offer; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)
Jackie Cahill: The Government got its answer on Friday.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (3 Dec 2019)
Jackie Cahill: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for an ASD unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49871/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Dec 2019)
Jackie Cahill: 203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision on the status of a school (details supplied) will be postponed until the new policy on small schools is published following the small schools symposium which met in June 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49884/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Exports (3 Dec 2019)
Jackie Cahill: 461. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the protocol of under 30 months in relation to the agreement to export beef to China was at the insistence of the Chinese authorities; if not, the origin of the protocol; if Brazil, Argentina or Paraguay have the right to export beef over 30 months of age to China; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49954/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services Provision (3 Dec 2019)
Jackie Cahill: 500. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Irish Rail to provide a train that will serve Thurles to arrive in Kent Station, Cork at 8.30 a.m. on week days (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49794/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Jackie Cahill: I thank the Coillte representatives for their presentations. With all the talk about climate change and the challenges we have to meet, forestry has never had as important a part to play in our economy. Forestry as part of the agriculture landscape has a significant role to play and we have to develop this in a sustainable manner. I have been on this committee for a number of years now. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Jackie Cahill: I have a heap of questions so I will be some time asking them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Jackie Cahill: That is fine.