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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Programmes (21 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 433. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if recent reports are correct that the 2018 intervention for skimmed milk powder will be via tender at prices below current regulation level of €16.98 per tonne; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48863/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Eligibility (21 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 598. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to set out the savings to the State annually when access to a sick leave payment changed from three days to six days; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49333/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Eligibility (21 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 599. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline her plans to make changes to the number of days off work required for a person to access a sick leave payment in view of the fact that the current situation leaves a person exposed in the event of sickness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49334/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Staff (15 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 52. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the number of community CAMHS posts in CHO 3 and CHO 5 to reach the level recommended under A Vision for Change. [48226/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (15 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 190. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the announcement for funding to support capital investment in the horticulture sector can include investments made to repair damage following Storm Ophelia; the start and finish date for works commenced and completed to be included in this funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48291/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Mr. Callanan for his presentation. He made a number of points on forestry, an area on which I will focus. Restrictions apply to the planting of forestry on hen harrier designated land. While this land is well suited to planting forestry, a blanket ban on planting applies. Furthermore, farmers who wish to plant unenclosed land must balance this by planting enclosed land, with a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (14 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will request the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, and Special Educational Needs Organisers, SENO, to reassess the SNA support at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47879/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 347. To ask the Minister for Health the schemes available for a person (details supplied) to apply for that would see an operation carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48159/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Horticulture Sector (8 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: I accept what the Minister is saying in terms of grant aid being available going forward but they have a cashflow crisis at the moment. In order for them to survive and to be in a position to benefit from the scheme that the Minister is planning to introduce in 2018, they need immediate help. At a meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine a number of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Horticulture Sector (8 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 47. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the financial supports or emergency funds that are available to the nursery sector to alleviate the financial loss and the threat to jobs in the sector due to the recent Storm Ophelia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46943/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Horticulture Sector (8 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: In the past month or six weeks, extraordinary weather events have done damage to the horticultural sector. What plans does the Minister have for financial aid or emergency support for the sector?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Horticulture Sector (8 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: With respect, the Minister outlined the importance of the sector and no one will question that. The question we asked was, with the extraordinary circumstances they found themselves in, what financial help or emergency funding is there? We saw the mushroom sector virtually abandoned when Brexit hit and a number of growers went out of business. The nursery sector, in particular, is a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Identification Schemes (8 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 60. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the rules for the movement of animals to bed and breakfast accommodation; the protections in place for the owner of the animals if the new rules allow that the next movement of the animals is not automatically back to the original herd; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46953/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Upcoming CAP Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: I have been at the table of a number of discussions on CAP renegotiations. On each occasion, I heard of how CAP was to be simplified only for every renegotiated CAP to end up more complicated than the one preceding it. I will believe what we are being told this time when I see it come to fruition. Farmers have seen no simplification of CAP. It has not happened up to now and I do not...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Retention (7 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 140. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions she has taken to protect jobs at a company (details supplied) which was severely damaged by Storm Ophelia recently and saw thousands of trees destroyed; the funds that are available at national and EU level in this regard to safeguard full time and part time jobs in this business which saw its stock impacted by this...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (7 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 260. To ask the Minister for Finance the criteria used by the banks in each of the years 2009 to 2016 and to date in 2017 whereby a hire purchase loan could be sold to vulture funds at a discount; the type of calculation or formula that was used to determine that a loan was impaired and that it could be sold to a third party; if the Central Bank monitored or issued parameters whereby hire...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (7 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 261. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of hire purchase loans that were sold to third party unregulated vulture funds annually in each of the years 2009 to 2016 and to date in 2017 by a bank (details supplied) or other companies associated with or to the bank; the value of these loans annually, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47026/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (7 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 262. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of hire purchase loans that were sold to third party unregulated vulture funds or other third parties annually in each of the years 2009 to 2016 and to date in 2017 by a bank (details supplied) or other companies associated with or to the bank; the value of these loans annually, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (7 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 263. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of hire purchase loans that were sold to third party unregulated vulture funds annually in each of the years 2009 to 2016 and to date in 2017 by a bank (details supplied) or other companies associated with or to the bank; the value of these loans annually, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47028/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (7 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 264. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of hire purchase loans that were sold to third party unregulated vulture funds annually in each of the years 2009 to 2016 and to date in 2017 by a bank (details supplied) or other companies associated with or to the bank; the value of these loans annually, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47029/17]