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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmers Scheme Eligibility (16 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 175. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if clean land (details supplied) is eligible to receive top-up entitlements for the young farmers allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21654/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility (16 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 176. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a derogation for fencing for land (details supplied) as in respect of cross-compliance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21655/18]

Mandatory Open Disclosure: Motion (15 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I welcome the Sinn Féin motion. There is general support for the thrust of it. Patients must trust that they are getting the full facts from their doctors as soon as is practical. In turn, doctors must feel free to share sensitive information without fear of legal consequences. Mandatory reporting is needed to achieve this. The Government has indicated that mandatory reporting will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Different Approaches and New Opportunities in Irish Agriculture: Discussion (15 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I welcome the Macra na Feirme representatives. The presentation was thought provoking and argumentative but that is the job of a young farming organisation and I would not criticise. In my view the greatest challenge that is probably facing us as farmers and young farmers going forward is the environment and its protection. There has to be use of technology. It is going to be a battle....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Different Approaches and New Opportunities in Irish Agriculture: Discussion (15 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: Most of what has been said has been comment rather than questions. Mr. Healy, do you wish to give a synopsis or answer any questions posed? I will then go to the other members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Different Approaches and New Opportunities in Irish Agriculture: Discussion (15 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I thank the witnesses for a very interesting presentation. Is this concept present across the rest of Europe? What kind of acreage or how well established is it there? Deputy Martin Kenny asked how many of the farmers were organic. It is a first-cousin of organic, in trying to do things by more natural methods and improve soil quality through a certain type of farming practice. Having...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Different Approaches and New Opportunities in Irish Agriculture: Discussion (15 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: The wheat is undersown with white clover.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Different Approaches and New Opportunities in Irish Agriculture: Discussion (15 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: Will it be cut as a whole crop?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Different Approaches and New Opportunities in Irish Agriculture: Discussion (15 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: For grain.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies (15 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are vacancies on the board of the NUI; the process on the way in which these vacancies are normally filled; if his Department is involved in this process; when he expects the vacant positions to be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21319/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (15 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 357. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to fill the position of stroke specialist nurse at South Tipperary General Hospital which has been vacant since January 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20884/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Stroke Care (15 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 362. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided by the HSE for the establishment of stroke survivor groups and the engagement of co-ordinators to facilitate the process in County Tipperary, as has been done in other areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20892/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Data (15 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the staff numbers at a facility (details supplied) by administration, management and healthcare staff; the categories of healthcare provided; the comparison of staff numbers to end of April 2018 by each of the years 2014 to 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20945/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Negligence Cases (15 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 406. To ask the Minister for Health the part of the health budget from which the funding to pay awards of the court for medical negligence cases and other cases brought against the HSE is issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21147/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TAMS Payments (15 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 468. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the penalty for an overclaim on a TAMS payment for a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21244/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Appeals (15 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 470. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to debate the findings of the review of the appeals procedure further to the completion of the review; his plans to implement its recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21318/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas (15 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 471. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is technically feasible to introduce a new forestry management protocol covering special protection areas important to the hen harrier which would permit an annual quota of new plantings based on the areas identified as available for planting; and the barriers that remain from pursuing this policy as previously existed. [21326/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TAMS Payments (10 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 239. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the issues regarding TAMS payments under the dairy equipment scheme will be resolved as promised in view of the fact the penalties being imposed are grossly unfair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20536/18]

Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: If ever there were proof needed that our health service needed reform, it would be the fallout from the cervical screening crisis. If trust is to be restored, we need full disclosure from CervicalCheck, the HSE and the Minister. We need it quickly. One of the great barometers of the effectiveness of our service is emergency department overcrowding. INMO figures show a record number of...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: As Deputy Healy said, I was also at the public meeting in Clonmel on Thursday night, where the stories told by mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters were heart-rending, to say the least. They feel completely let down by the system. We have no psychiatric beds in our county. Even for people who do get access to a service, whether in Kilkenny or Ennis, it is completely inadequate to cater...