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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the Minister's statement that he is not going to allow our dairy sector - I would have like him to have included our beef sector also-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If a sector is going well, we need to make sure there is a focus on jobs. Whatever Europe says, if we can show that we are doing something in the most efficient way in Europe, whoever has to take the hit in other parts of Europe or the world, they should take it, provided we are the ringleader in all of this. I believe we can produce milk and beef more efficiently than anywhere else.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 152. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will assure farmers in counties Roscommon, Leitrim and Longford and in east Galway, whose payments under the agri-environment options scheme have been held up due to an investigation being carried out; his views that these farmers are suffering financial problems, as this has dragged on for a long time; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the Minister reassure farmers in counties Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford and east Galway whose payments under the agri-environment options scheme, AEOS, have been held up due to a Department investigation? What are his views on this? The farmers in the area are suffering severe financial problems so will the Minister make a statement?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have met a good few farmers who may have bought some trees. They had inspections in 2011 or 2012 and everything was in order. These people have had their payments held up as well. There are many very good farmers out there and many of them expected this money before Christmas. They are under serious financial pressure. They have gone to different public representatives, expressing how...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Sure.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I understand where the Minister is coming from. During the past 90 to 120 days there should have been no reason that inspectors could not have inspected the 300 to 400 farms to check whether the numbers were in the ground and whether farmers were compliant. The Department should have pushed this side of it.

Other Questions: GLAS Eligibility (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Cork.

Other Questions: Agrifood Sector (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: They are all in the west.

Other Questions: Agrifood Sector (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The poor old west.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Eligibility (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 162. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will consider splitting land parcels for the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme as it is not ideal for smaller farms as currently constituted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12750/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Eligibility (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 169. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the problems under the organic farming scheme and the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, where a farmer may have 12 ha but cannot receive two different payments on the same ground regarding the double payment issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12751/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 173. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has found export markets for Friesian calves so as to avoid a collapse of the beef market in 18 months time when too many dairy calves come on stream; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12753/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 174. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the second phase of the Green Low-Carbon Agri-Environmental Scheme for 20,000 farmers is opening in August 2015, as is being reported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12749/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 178. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the teething problems relating to the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, in which the computer system has been causing problems for farm planners, has been resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12752/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 300. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 299 of 3 February 2015 and the reply to the Ceann Comhairle subsequent to this Deputy's appeal under Standing Order 40A, and notwithstanding any current or future consultations or negotiations which may or may not be under way, if he will provide the Government's current position with regard to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 307. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has looked at the problems for the forgotten farmer, farming from 2002 to the end of 2007 and under 40 years of age who has no entitlements or very few entitlements; if his Department will help these farmers as Europe has sent letters stating that it is the member states themselves that will decide the issue; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Data (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 446. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the reported difficulty in filling vacant rural General Medical Services practice panels in recent times, the number of general practitioner contract holders who were or are in receipt of the rural practice allowance in each of the past ten years and in 2015 to date; the average annual payment to these in each of the past ten years and in 2015 to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Data (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 449. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the reported difficulty in filling vacant rural General Medical Services practice panels in recent times, the number of general practitioner contract holders who were not or are not in receipt of the rural practice allowance for each of the past ten years and in 2015 to date; the average annual payment to these for each of the past ten years and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Minerals Development Bill 2014: Discussion (1 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. My understanding was that the IDA, Bord na Móna and the councils have CPO powers. Are the witnesses telling me this Bill will give CPO powers to another body?