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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Treatment Benefit Scheme Applications (26 Sep 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive a hearing aid. [40863/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Treatment Benefit Scheme Applications (26 Sep 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a hearing aid. [40865/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (26 Sep 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on domiciliary care allowance will be made in respect of a person (details supplied). [40866/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Expenditure (26 Sep 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the single farm payment that used to be paid to Greencore; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40816/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector (26 Sep 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a TB reactor grant has not been paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [40868/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector (26 Sep 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will accept the 7 February 2011 appeals decisions by an appeals office to allow partial payment of TB reactor grant to a person (details supplied) [40870/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (27 Sep 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Health the progress made, if any, regarding the proposed development of a primary care centre at Tralee, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41000/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (27 Sep 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Health the number of public nursing home beds closed to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40999/12]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises Closures (2 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of enterprises that have closed since January 2011; and the programmes in place to support struggling small to medium enterprises [41617/12]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Advisory Group on Small Business Recommendations (2 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of recommendations of the Advisory Group for Small Business that have been implemented by him. [41618/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (2 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason funding for People with Disabilities in Ireland ceased at the end of 2011; the other avenues of funding that are available for local groups such as Kerry Network of People with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41424/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alternative Farm Enterprises (2 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are any grant schemes to assist the production of bio ethanol from grain. [42002/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Foresty Industry: Discussion with Coillte (2 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: I thank Mr. Gunning for his presentation which was very informative. I have serious political reservations about the sale of Coillte. My party considers it politically irresponsible to sell off an enterprise such as Coillte which has performed so well and made a profit of €19.9 million in 2011 when the outlay included the €34 million spent on the road infrastructure. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Foresty Industry: Discussion with Coillte (2 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: Has Coillte carried out any geological surveys?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Foresty Industry: Discussion with Coillte (2 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: The problem is that the afforestation part is being sold off. If the lands are sold on afterwards by the Government, without a geological survey having been carried out, this could benefit a private buyer rather than the people. This is a concern.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Foresty Industry: Discussion with Coillte (2 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: Did Mr. Gunning say Coillte owns 2 million acres?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Foresty Industry: Discussion with Coillte (2 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: The McCarthy report identified that 500,000 acres of this was unviable for forestry. That leaves 720,000 acres viable. No one is going to buy unviable land. Depending on what the company sells off, it could be left with 500,000 unviable acres, making it unviable itself. Has Coillte factored that into its deliberations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Foresty Industry: Discussion with Coillte (2 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: Are these Mick McCarthy's assumptions?

Order of Business (3 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: Last week, the workers in the veterinary section of the agriculture office in Clonakilty were told they are to move almost immediately to Cork city from a building that had been refurbished by the Department at the taxpayer's expense to a building that is being rented by the State. Can the Minister try to justify-----

Order of Business (3 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: -----the irresponsible action in order to transfer people from a coastal community?