Results 3,341-3,360 of 16,057 for speaker:Mary Coughlan
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The single payment scheme is applicable to farmers who actively farmed during all or any of the three reference years 2000, 2001 and 2002 and who were paid livestock premia and/or arable aid payments in one or more of those years. The gross single payment is based on the average number of animals and/or the average number of hectares, in the case of arable aid, on which payments were made in...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application for consideration in respect of the inheritance measure of the single payment scheme. Following processing of his application he was notified that his application was successful and payment will issue shortly.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: An application under the single payment scheme was received from the person named on 16 May 2005. Payment of â¬4,964.12 issued on 1 December 2005 and payment of the decoupled dairy premium element of â¬2,668.63 will issue shortly.
- Written Answers — Computer Software: Computer Software (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: My Department began making single farm payments on 1 December and over 118,000 farmers were paid in excess of â¬1 billion in the lead up to Christmas. This provided a very important boost to the rural economy and gave a good head-start to our farming sector in the challenging years ahead. The rules of this scheme are extremely complex. Each farmer's entitlement is based on the unique history...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application form for consideration in respect of the private contract clause measure of the single payment scheme. The necessary amendments have now been made and payment will issue shortly.
- Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 480 to 482, inclusive, together. My Department is responsible for issuing the import licences required for animals imported for use in a circus and for ensuring that the imported animals comply with the appropriate health certification requirements. Licences are issued in accordance with the Rabies (Importation, Landing and Movement of Animals) (Amendment)...
- Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 483 to 485, inclusive, together. Health and safety issues of the nature referred to by the Deputy are matters for the Health and Safety Authority. My Department's responsibilities with regard to circuses are confined to issuing import licences for circus animals and ensuring compliance with the appropriate health certification requirements. Licences are issued...
- Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: Allocations of milk quota from the national reserve are granted on the basis of recommendations from the milk quota appeals tribunal. The tribunal examines and makes recommendations on applications for additional quota from individual producers. The person named applied to the tribunal in the current 2005-06 quota year and the tribunal examined his application in January. It did not recommend...
- Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: Over 23,000 applications for an allocation of entitlements from the national reserve were received when account is taken of farmers who applied under more than one category. Processing of these applications is continuing and the intention is to notify applicants of the outcome of their applications in early March.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named applied for consideration in respect of the inheritance measure of the single payment scheme. Following processing of his application he was notified that he was successful. An initial payment issued to him on 16 December 2005. A further payment in respect of the decoupled dairy premium will issue to the person named shortly.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: No single payment has been established for the person named as he was not farming and in receipt of direct payments during the 2000-02 reference period. The person named submitted an application for an allocation of entitlements from the single payments scheme national reserve under category D. Category D caters for farmers who commenced farming after 31 December 2002 or who commenced farming...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application under the single payment scheme on 10 May 2005. The herd owner also applied to have his entitlements consolidated under the 2005 single payment scheme. Following examination of the consolidation application, it was noted that the number of eligible hectares declared by the person named on his 2005 single payment application is greater than the number...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: An application under the 2004 ewe premium scheme, in respect of 608 ewes, was received from the person named on 24 December 2003. During an on-farm inspection on 3 March 2004, a total of 482 animals were presented, of which 75 were grazing on lands which were not part of the declared lands in the application form of the person named, as required under the EU regulations governing the scheme,...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted applications for consideration in respect of the new entrant and inheritance measures of the single payment scheme. Following processing of his applications he was notified that his new entrant application could not be accepted as he had farmed during all three of the 2000-02 reference years. He was notified that his inheritance application was successful and...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted applications for consideration in respect of both the new entrant and the private contract clause measures of the single payment scheme. Following processing of his application he was notified that his new entrant application was successful and that the years 2000 and 2001 would be excluded from the calculation of his single payment. His request to transfer...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: An application under the 2004 special beef premium scheme, in respect of 38 animals, was received from the person named on 31 December 2004. Following initial processing of the application, it was found that ten of these animals were not compliant with the cattle movement monitoring system at the date of application, that is, they were not recorded as being in the herd of the person named....
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application for consideration in respect of the inheritance measure of the single payment scheme. Following processing of his application, he was notified that his application was accepted. Payment in respect of the inherited entitlements amounting to â¬5,076.63 issued to him on 1 December 2005. The remaining â¬3,906.42 in respect of the decoupled dairy premium...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The decoupled dairy premium was based on the eligible milk quota held by dairy farmers on 31 March 2005, provided that they had delivered milk produced on their holding during the 2004-05 milk quota year, or prior to 15 May 2005. As the person named did not meet this requirement, he was not eligible for the dairy premium. However, the person named submitted an application for an allocation of...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application under the 2005 single payment scheme on 10 May 2005. He also applied to have entitlements transferred to him by way of inheritance. Following processing of this application, he was notified on 14 February 2006 that his application to transfer entitlements by way of inheritance was successful. Payment of the single payment will shortly issue to the...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: An application under the single payment scheme was received from the person named on 12 May 2005. An on-farm cross compliance inspection was carried out on this holding on 25 October 2005, which has resulted in a 5% payment penalty due to findings of CMMS non-compliance. The application has now been fully processed and payment of â¬28,108.72, reflecting the 5% penalty, will issue shortly.