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Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is not a copy of the motion. It is a copy of the speech.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When we get the copy, we can-----

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a lot of detail. The Minister gave details of dates. We need to see the speech.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We need to be able to make notes as the Minister is speaking. Could we agree to suspend the House until we get the speech?

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As a matter of procedure, the Minister should have ensured that copies were here before we started.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I think we should wait until we get a copy of the speech. In fact, I think the Minister should leave the House and get us a copy.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Data Programme (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The fact that there has been no real change does not mean that it is right. Based on data the Minister has given me - the figures he has given me now are marginally different from the ones he gave me previously - it is interesting to note that only 22% of farmers - I think he said the figure was 24%, but I will not argue over 2% because he is arguing with himself over his own figures - have...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Data Programme (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The figure the Minister gave me previously was 22%.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Data Programme (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Data Programme (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On 26 May the Minister said that in the range of nought to ten, there were 39,605 herds. I was also informed by him that 8,677 herdowners had made applications. That works out at a figure of 22%, but I will accept the figure of 27%.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Data Programme (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That would be very useful, but we will accept the figure of 27%. On the same basis, in the case of farmers with 11 cows or more we are talking about, on average, 67% or 68% of those applying to participate in the scheme. It is obvious, therefore, that there is a massive difference in the percentage of farmers with ten cows or fewer who are applying.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Data Programme (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister has given some reasons for this, but none of them stands up. It is a fantastic answer, but it is meaningless. Is the Minister concerned that the take-up of the schemes by smaller farmers is so low, particularly when the farm organisations kept telling small farmers that they would be looked after under Pillar 2?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Data Programme (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is a genius with figures. Obviously, a large number of the farmers fall into the category with the smallest number of animals. Let me give the Minister an example. There are 39,605 farmers in the nought to ten suckler cow range. There are 1,978 farmers who have between 41 and 50 animals. If every one of them was to apply - some 72% have applied - they would still not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Data Programme (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The big guy gets it, too. If someone has 1,000 ha-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Data Programme (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: For the first ten he gets-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Data Programme (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is not working for small farmers. Less than 30%-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Data Programme (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Some 78% of herdowners have fewer than 20 cows.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Data Programme (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Data Programme (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They represent 80% of herdowners. It is farcical.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Data Programme (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 4. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of suckler cow farmers who have herds of ten cows or less; the percentage of these who have applied for the beef data and genomics scheme 2015; his views on the low uptake of this scheme by smaller herd owners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26201/15]