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- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Applications were received from every county, and virtually every action therein was included at some stage.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Fitzmaurice is aware that, in his own county of Galway and Roscommon-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----they have demonstrated a keen interest in this scheme - 3,250 from Galway and 1,585-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Sure, you know all the answers.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Fitzmaurice-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Minister, Deputy Coveney, indicated that the second tranche of GLAS-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----would be launched in the coming weeks, and that is expected to attract significant interest as well.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Now, on the basis of the 27,000 applications that were submitted, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has indicated that farmers will have already met or exceeded RDP targets for low-input permanent pasture, protection of water courses, laying hedgerows, planting of new hedgerows, planting of traditional orchards-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----bird, bee and bat habitats, wild bird cover and stone wall maintenance. The Deputy knows all about these things as well.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: GLAS differs from other schemes and has adopted a very different targeted approach here. In answer to Deputy Fitzmaurice's question, there is no reduction to the average payment that a farmer can receive and achieve under GLAS. Farmers and advisers have the potential to maximise the payment for each individual farmer when they are drawing up the individual's application-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----and to achieve a payment of up to €5,000 under the scheme.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: While a small number in the beginning-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Fitzmaurice said this will not work, this cannot work.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: When the Department shows a deal of resolve-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----and understanding about how to work out these problems, they actually do work.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Birds and bats.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 20, inclusive, together. St. Patrick's Day has become a truly global festival, which presents us with an unparalleled opportunity to engage with political decision makers to advance Irish causes and advocate on their behalf and to focus on our number one priority of job creation by promoting Ireland as a preferred partner for trade and investment, as...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Martin. I realise these questions are relevant to a period from quite a number of months ago but I believe the offer always was there to have a written reply granted immediately. While that was not requested, it applies in all cases. As I stated, I congratulated the President on his executive action on immigration and met Senators Reid, McConnell and Leahy, as well as the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Naughten will be aware from his experience of how this operates in the United States in terms of having two Houses that function, both Senate and Congress. Given what is happening there at the moment, where there is a degree of polarity between the two Houses and the two major parties, I do not see it happening. I might be wrong and I hope I am. President Obama made his executive...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: In any event, I believe this is going to be problematic, particularly for a country like Ireland. The nature of our traditional connection 50 or 60 years ago and before was that people left and never came back. This has changed now. I firmly believe that the J1 system has been important in keeping that connection alive in the modern sense with young people in university and throughout the...