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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Green Low-carbon Agri-environment Scheme (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 4. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that no commonage farmer will be excluded from access to GLAS by the 50% threshold; that all commonage land will qualify for the €120 per hectare payment; if he will ensure that GLAS is open for application at an early date to ensure that farmers are eligible for a full year's payment in 2015; and if he will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Green Low-carbon Agri-environment Scheme (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: There is much concern and disquiet relating to the commonage aspect of the GLAS scheme. When commonage is owned by shareholders, each of whom has mapped and registered holdings, but boundaries are not fenced, it is known as unenclosed privately owned land. The proposed GLAS payment for nature sites and such land is €75 per hectare rather than €120, which applies to commonage...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Green Low-carbon Agri-environment Scheme (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: It is also essential that the Minister ensures all rules and regulations are tied up within a short time and that the scheme is expedited to give the planners an opportunity. It must also be sent to the EU Commission as speedily as possible to ensure farmers qualify for their payments at an early date in the new year. Sustaining viability in farming is dependent on the success of GLAS and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Green Low-carbon Agri-environment Scheme (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: I wish to ask the Minister the position regarding the issues farmers are facing with regard to land eligibility penalties.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Green Low-carbon Agri-environment Scheme (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: Given the dilemma facing farmers because of the Russian sanctions on food and a general reduction in their incomes, I take it that the Minister is sincere in his efforts to advance the scheme as quickly as possible. I ask him to keep a focus on it and ensure farmers receive their rightful moneys at an early stage.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 6. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding issues that farmers face on the land eligibility penalties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35260/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: The question relates to issues in regard to land eligibility. This is a very serious matter. It seems more than 33,000 land parcels are affected. Eligibility or ineligibility is a very grey area and I ask that the Minister makes every effort to minimise the impact on the Irish farmers affected.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: We are all aware there was no intent on the part of the vast majority of farmers who are affected by these regulations to break any sort of rule. Everything was done in good faith. The new satellite imagery system was introduced mainly to deal with marginal land. Much of this is questionable in terms of what the satellite has ascertained. Farmers consider they have grassland, even though...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: I acknowledge that the Minister is making his best effort with the European Commission but I ask him to go back to the table, particularly in regard to retrospective payments. A large number of farmers will be forced out of business if they have to go back over five years, as is being threatened. This is not an acceptable situation. It is well known that surveys are being carried out in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 17. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that there are no further cuts to the disadvantaged area scheme and reverse the cuts imposed to date including the restoration of payments on the first 45 hectares. [35176/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Budget 2015 (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 20. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that there are no further cuts to REP scheme 4 payments in budget 2015 and also that funding for AEOS be maintained at its current level in budget 2013. [35178/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Exports (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 21. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the measures being considered for dealing with compensation to farmers due to the Russian food sanctions. [35174/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 27. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress he has made in addressing the ongoing impasse on beef prices which have decimated farmers income; and the role that the beef forum has in the process. [35177/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme Projects (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 29. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will open applications for the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme at an early date; and if he will ensure that budget 2015 will provide adequate funding for same. [35175/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 100. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a disability allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry as all relevant information has been submitted. [35531/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 141. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35855/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 409. To ask the Minister for Health if he will appoint a senior clinical nurse to the purpose-built mental health facility in Kenmare, County Kerry as this facility remains unused 15 months after it was built because the Health Service Executive has been unable to employ a specialist senior clinical nurse to manage the much needed amenity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35850/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Administration (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 507. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will maintain the current Leader model to ensure the continued quality delivery of service to rural and urban communities which have a proven organisation structure of 2,500 employees and have processed more than €500 million in funding for projects over the past five years alone. [35705/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Workers Recruitment (25 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 3. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide the necessary number of social workers for services for children and youth. [36155/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Workers Recruitment (25 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: I congratulate the Minister and wish him well in his new Ministry. There is a major task ahead, as illustrated by our questions today. I welcome the fact that 100 social workers are to be recruited.