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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: No, they met after that. There were actions to be carried out, but I will be in touch with them before.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Operation (10 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: 202. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if new severance packages for supervisors of community employment schemes have been agreed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39113/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Payments (10 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: 255. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway did not receive full payment under the areas of natural constraint scheme 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39112/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (10 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: 256. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not received farm payments for 2015; when will the payments issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39116/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (10 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: 288. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not received a payment under the rural environment protection scheme for the past two years; when payment will issue; if this will affect the person's application under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39397/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Payments (10 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: 297. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway under the areas of natural constraint scheme and the basic payment scheme; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39473/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Payments (10 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: 298. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments under the areas of natural constraint scheme and the basic payment scheme will issue to persons (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39474/15]

Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak on this motion. When I was doing my research I discovered there has been a Private Members' business motion on this issue every year since 2004. We know who was in charge in 2004. It is a damning indictment of many different people and bodies that we are still in this situation today and that we continue to have a discussion on the matter in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme (11 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: 91. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments under the areas of natural constraint scheme and the basic payment scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39762/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (11 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: 92. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason payments under the areas of natural constraint scheme and the basic payment scheme have not issued to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; when the payments will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39763/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheepmeat Sector (12 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: 108. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the measures he will take to assist sheep farmers in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39864/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme Eligibility (12 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale behind the requirement for participants in vocational training opportunities schemes to be on a payment from the Department of Social Protection for six months before taking up a course; her views on whether this effectively incentivises persons to stay on social protection for some months longer than they would otherwise do in...

Paris Terrorist Attack: Statements (17 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: Probably like many other Irish people who were watching the match last Friday evening when word started to break on this attack, for me sport was put into perspective when I saw what was unfolding. Again probably like many Irish people who went to bed Friday night not knowing what they would wake up to Saturday morning, it was for me too atrocious and terrible to watch the number of people...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme (17 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: 273. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 421 of 14 July 2015 on the modification of the Irish rural development programme to include financial instruments, which could leverage European Investment Bank finance to provide competitive loans for young farmers, using collateral other than land, for example, when he expects the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (17 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: 292. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the basic payment scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the cause of the delay to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40544/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (17 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: 293. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the areas of natural constraint and basic payment scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the cause of the delay to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40545/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (17 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: 294. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not received payment under the areas of natural constraint scheme, the basic payment scheme and the forestry premia scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40546/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Review (17 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on policy proposals for the drafting of primary legislation for a new mobility allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40217/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (17 Nov 2015)

Paul Connaughton: I welcome the delegation. I hope to be just as brief with my questions, which arise as a follow-up as I know the witnesses tried to address many of the issues. With regard to the purchasing of a bull with a rating of four or five stars, the witnesses stated that indexes will move. Has that always been stated publicly at meetings as some farmers are confused because departmental officials...