Results 2,941-2,960 of 21,588 for speaker:Denis Naughten
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (6 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: Question 438: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food further to correspondence (details supplied) if she will provide a hardship grant to support the person in question; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3604/07]
- Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (6 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: Question 459: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps she is taking to address the delay in processing the farm waste management grant scheme; when the 2007 costings will be available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4064/07]
- Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (6 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: Question 460: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps she is taking to increase the amount of milk quota available in the second phase of the milk trading scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4065/07]
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (6 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: Question 510: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide parents of autistic children in receipt of Department funded home tuition with a list of suitably qualified teachers in their locality; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3600/07]
- Written Answers — Water Quality: Water Quality (6 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: Question 576: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the recommendations as set out in the final report of Three Rivers Project have been implemented; the status of the recommendations; if recommendations 6D and 6E covering the urban waste water treatment regulations have been implemented in full; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3598/07]
- Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (6 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: Question 579: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views in relation to the draft Soil Directive; if his Department has considered its impact on agriculture here; if he has discussed the directive with the Department of Agriculture and Food; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3647/07]
- Finance Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: The Irish riviera.
- Finance Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: I wish to share time with Deputy Tom Hayes. He will take three minutes at the end of my time.
- Finance Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: I warmly welcome the scheme for the mid-Shannon area, which is a very positive development. I thought the Minister and the Minister of State had forgotten all about us until the announcement of the scheme.
- Finance Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: Neither of them made an impact within the Department up to now, but this is a positive development, which I warmly welcome. I hope it will succeed in the targets that have been set in providing the type of facilities urgently needed in the area, which does not have and traditionally did not have tourist amenities. The River Shannon is a significant asset, but it is critically important there...
- Finance Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: Maintenance of the River Shannon is critically important and I hope it will happen. I know the Minister of State has made soundings on it but he has made many hollow soundings to date. We want to see the colour of money with this issue. In tandem with this we need to consider communities marooned along the River Shannon. Over Christmas a home was flooded in County Roscommon, with a number...
- Finance Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: That will be no problem. The Minister for Finance has indicated he will consider on Committee Stage tax relief measures for farmers. I hope he will consider a number of issues, the first being the sugar compensation package due to farmers. We were told by the Government that the payments would begin in June, but the Minister for Agriculture and Food yesterday sang a different tune. She...
- Finance Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: Does the Minister of State, Deputy Parlon, want to speak about the savage 16 cuts or does he want me to spend the next few minutes speaking about them?
- Finance Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: The facts are available on the matter.
- Finance Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: It is a disappointment that she is now turning her back on another vulnerable element of the community â retired farmers. The Minister of State, Deputy Parlon, had an opportunity in the Finance Bill to address it.
- Finance Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: It is not the only area where the Government has turned its back on the farming community. For example, a self-employed person, regardless of whether he or she is a farmer, is not entitled to the PAYE tax credit which has increased over the past number of years â in this budget by â¬440 to â¬3,520. That is discrimination against farm families and the farming community, and of the...
- Finance Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: He negotiated a good deal but the minute he went into Government, he overturned it.
- Finance Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: My final point relates to his comments on the promotion of biofuels. While I wholeheartedly welcome the positive development in the budget, there is not much point providing incentives for the growing of a crop if there is not a market for it and nothing has been done to develop it. I ask the Minister of State to look at this matter in the context of the Finance Bill. He will be aware of...
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (7 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: Question 192: To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the decentralisation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4045/07]
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (7 Feb 2007)
Denis Naughten: Question 187: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the tax implications of the sugar compensation package for farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4046/07]