Results 241-260 of 18,593 for speaker:Michael Creed
- Agrifood Sector. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: ââis laudable, but without something tangible in these farmers' pockets they will not be there to reap the benefit of the turnaround when it comes in the long term. The farm income scheme had a targeted grant for facilities and fencing, which with one fell swoop the Minister has removed. That grant was of real practical benefit to sheep farmers many of whom were interested in the grant...
- Agrifood Sector. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: If the Minister can do it for suckler cows she can do it for sheep.
- Agrifood Sector. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: We could have a welfare scheme for sheep also.
- Agrifood Sector. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: On a point of orderââ
- Agrifood Sector. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: The review group deals with quality matters.
- Agrifood Sector. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: We have a problem with priority answers.
- Agrifood Sector. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: The Minister should take a chill pill.
- Agrifood Sector. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: May I ask a final brief question?
- Agrifood Sector. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: In an effort to get something tangible from today's encounter will the Minister defer the Commission proposal for the electronic tagging of sheep scheduled for 2008, given that the fencing and handling grants have been abolished? Farmers regarded those grants as representing a way for them to comply with the electronic tagging system.
- Agrifood Sector. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: They are gone now.
- Agrifood Sector. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: It will be introduced in 2008.
- Farm Improvement Scheme. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will make a statement on the future of the farm improvement grant scheme; the number of applications received to date; and if her Department will hand back funding to the Exchequer in 2007. [26974/07]
- Farm Improvement Scheme. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: I am clutching at straws. The Minister stated the scheme was closed "for now". Is she holding out the prospect that the scheme may be reopened in 2008? Is she not embarrassed that a scheme launched less than six months ago had to be suspended last Friday? That reflects an appalling inability in her Department to predict the pent up demand for capital investment on farms. I acknowledge...
- Farm Improvement Scheme. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: The Minister should be.
- Farm Improvement Scheme. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: How could she have underestimated it by so much?
- Farm Improvement Scheme. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: The Minister should have seen the underinvestment.
- Farm Improvement Scheme. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: I want to ask the Minster two brief supplementary questions and the possibility of an answer would be greatly appreciated. Specifically, as regards those now being denied grant aid under this scheme, will the Minister consider a derogation from their compliance obligations under the nitrates directive and REPS because very many of them had programmes in place and investment targeted to...
- Farm Improvement Scheme. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: I have asked a number of supplementaries, but I am not getting any answers.
- Farm Improvement Scheme. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: That is correct.
- Farm Improvement Scheme. (6 Nov 2007)
Michael Creed: And REPS.