Results 3,041-3,060 of 16,057 for speaker:Mary Coughlan
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The named person submitted an application for inheritance under the single payment scheme. This application has been successfully processed. His entitlements have been transferred and payment will issue as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Coughlan: An application under the single payment scheme was received from the person named on 16 May 2005, with a declared area of 14.94 hectares. Following initial processing, a problem was identified in respect of one parcel listed. While the person named was written to and contacted directly by an official of my Department, he has yet to satisfactorily resolve the issue. Payment cannot issue while...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted one 2004 special beef premium application for six animals. Following initial processing, an issue arose which prevented payment from being made. However, this problem has now been resolved and payment will issue shortly.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Coughlan: An application under the single payment scheme was received on 3 May 2005 in the name of the person and his father. As the entitlements established during the reference period were established by the father of the person named, it is necessary that the appropriate transfer be effected to allow payment of the application. As such a transfer request had not been received, an official of my...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The named person held special condition entitlements as he did not submit area aid applications during the 2000 to 2002 reference period and was paid premia under the provisions of the EU regulations which enabled farmers to receive payments on up to 15 livestock units. The entitlements have now been converted to 3.01 standard entitlements based on the lands declared in the applicant's 2005...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Coughlan: Following direct contact by my officials with the person named, processing of his single payment scheme application form is being expedited, with a view to payment at an early date.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Coughlan: An application under the disadvantaged areas or single payment schemes was received from the person named on 14 May 2005. Following initial processing, issues regarding the areas declared were identified which required clarification by the applicant. These matters have now been resolved and the application is being further processed with a view to payment at an early date.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Coughlan: This case has been successfully processed and payment for the amount of â¬3,112.11 is expected to be paid to the person named in the next few days.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Coughlan: An application under the disadvantaged areas-single payment schemes was received from the first person named on 15 May 2005. Following initial processing, issues were identified which required to be addressed. These have now been clarified and the application is being further processed with a view to payment at an early date.
- Written Answers — World Trade Negotiations: World Trade Negotiations (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The current round of WTO negotiations are ongoing and the ministerial conference currently taking place in Hong Kong is seeking to make substantial progress towards a final agreement. The Commission negotiates on behalf of the EU on the basis of a mandate agreed by the Council of Ministers. The negotiations have not yet concluded. Throughout the negotiations in Hong Kong, and in the run up to...
- Written Answers — Sugar Beet Industry: Sugar Beet Industry (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 262 and 263 together. Political agreement on reform of the EU sugar regime was reached at the Council of Agriculture Ministers' meeting on 24 November 2005. It will be a matter for beet growers and Irish Sugar Ltd. to make decisions about sugar beet growing in light of the reformed sugar regime. Under the terms of the reform agreement, a once-off payment of...
- Written Answers — Food Safety: Food Safety (15 Dec 2005)
Mary Coughlan: One of the two meat plants referred to by the Deputy is in Northern Ireland. The other is a meat plant in County Monaghan which, I understand, has not been in operation for over a year. Prior to its closure this plant had been under the control of the local authority veterinary inspection service. My Department is co-operating with the Food Safety Authority of Ireland in the investigation of...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application for an allocation of entitlements from the single payments scheme national reserve under category B. Category B caters for farmers who, between 1 January 2000 and 19 October 2003, made an investment in production capacity in a farming sector for which a direct payment under livestock premia and-or arable aid schemes would have been payable during the...
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (25 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The European Communities (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2005, S.I. No. 788 of 2005, were made by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government on 11 December 2005 and will come into force on 1 February 2006. All farmers, including those in REPS, will be required to comply with the regulations. Farmers in REPS will not be required to amend...
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (25 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The implementation of the nitrates directive is a matter, in the first instance, for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, who signed regulations giving legal effect to Ireland's national action programme on nitrates on 11 December 2005. Ireland is proceeding with its request for a derogation designed to allow certain farmers to operate, under appropriate conditions...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application under the single payment scheme on 14 May 2005. Payment amounting to â¬43,729.77 in respect of the single payment scheme issued to the person named on 16 December 2005.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: An application under the 2005 single payment scheme was received from the person named on 10 May 2005. One land parcel was included on the application, which was processed by my Department and paid on 1 December 2005. The person named then contacted my Department to indicate that another land parcel had been omitted from his application. In accordance with the EU legislation governing the...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Parliamentary Questions Nos. 939 and 963 together. The person named established 49.45 entitlements under the single payment scheme. The person named declared a total of 32.03 eligible hectares and 17.70 forestry hectares in his 2005 single payment application. Under EU legislation, in order to draw down the full single payment an applicant must declare an eligible hectare in...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application under the single payment scheme on 27 April 2005. The application has been fully processed and payment has issued in respect of the single payment scheme to the person named.
- Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (25 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: It appears from my Department's records that ownership of the rights of turbary, but not the fee simple, of the bogland in question is in the name of the Minister for Agriculture and Food, as successor to the former Land Commission. It is anticipated that a scheme for the allotment of the said rights of turbary will be prepared by my inspectorate later this year.