Results 2,661-2,680 of 18,593 for speaker:Michael Creed
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: How much foreign direct investment comes from New Zealand?
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: In here at 5 p.m.
- Agri-Environment Scheme. (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason he has not included a significant premium payment in the new agri-environment scheme for farmers located in a special area of conservation, a special protection area, a natural heritage area or a commonage area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12145/10]
- Agri-Environment Scheme. (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: I thank the Minister for his reply. What the Minister has outlined confirms farmers' worst fears, namely, that this is, in effect, REPS light or Mickey Mouse REPS. Does the Minister accept that someone farming in one of these restricted areas, whether on commonage, in an SAC or in an NHA, carries additional responsibilities and, therefore, additional costs due to the restrictions on the...
- Agri-Environment Scheme. (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: Question Time is becoming repetitive in that the Minister repeatedly makes the assertion that he puts a case to the Commission but loses. Farmers need income in their pockets. There is a whole section of our economy that is on its knees, namely, the farming community. Whether it is with regard to sheep tagging or REPS, we hear the same reply all of the time - the Minister put a case, the...
- Agri-Environment Scheme. (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: It was â¬500.
- Agri-Environment Scheme. (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: It was available under REPS 4.
- Agri-Environment Scheme. (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: The Minister closed REPS 4.
- Agri-Environment Scheme. (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: There are not now 63,000 people in REPS.
- Agri-Environment Scheme. (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: The Minister should not mislead the House.
- Agri-Environment Scheme. (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: The Minister has-----
- Agri-Environment Scheme. (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: The Minister had a whole-farm scheme and he threw it away.
- Cattle Identification Scheme. (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has made submissions to the European Commission opposing the proposed electronic tagging of cows; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12146/10]
- Cattle Identification Scheme. (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: I cannot believe what I am hearing.
- Cattle Identification Scheme. (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: I despair when hearing the Minister of State eulogising the benefits of electronic tagging, given what we have witnessed already in respect of sheep tagging which is in danger of imploding an existing scheme. The Minister of State referred to the advantages such as increased efficiency. He fails to acknowledge that, in the case of sheep tagging, the Commission said that the error rate was...
- Cattle Identification Scheme. (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: He is entertaining it.
- Cattle Identification Scheme. (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: I ask the Minister of State to comment on a quotation attributed to a senior official in DG SANCO, which said that the Government did not object - this was carried in the Irish Farmers' Journal recently. It seems the Government did not lodge any objection to the electronic sheep tagging system. Is it a fait accompli that it is now Government policy to go ahead? Is it now Government...
- Cattle Identification Scheme. (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: Did the Minister do it in this House?
- Cattle Identification Scheme. (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: There is no market complaining about our traceability.
- Dairy Industry. (11 Mar 2010)
Michael Creed: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on including the milk rights group on the recently established dairy consultative group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12147/10]