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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: In the event that there is an overspend of €100 million by 2020, will that mean there will be €100 million less for schemes post-2020?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: We will have Mr. Hayes back before the committee in due course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: We are on Deputy Fitzmaurice's questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: There was also a question about anaerobic digestion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: There are four questioners left for the final round of questions. I am obliged to take members of the committee first. I call Deputy Ó Cuív.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: Fisheries are for another day. We are addressing the agriculture sector today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: Regarding the capping issue, in the event that a cap of €60,000 comes in, how many farmers would be affected? How much extra money would be available as a result of that €60,000 cap?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: There is no point in repeating it if it is available anyway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: Does Mr. Hayes have the figures on the question I asked about capping? Are those figures available?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: Is the number of farmers getting it at the moment known?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: All of the questions have been answered fairly well. I thank the members and the witnesses for participating. It has been a very useful meeting. It is obviously a very important area. This committee has already made three submissions towards the CAP agenda. We will obviously make more as time goes on. It is an issue that will continue for a long period of time yet, and hopefully we can...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tidy Towns Committees Funding (23 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: 12. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to allocate funding in 2019 to a committee (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2995/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tidy Towns Committees Funding (23 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: One of the best ways to help rural Ireland is to go to the heart of community, and Tidy Towns organisations are at the heart of communities throughout the country. What plans does the Minister have to allocate funding for Tidy Towns committees in 2019?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tidy Towns Committees Funding (23 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: Funding last year and in the previous couple of years was welcome to mark the 60th anniversary of the Tidy Towns competition. I come from a village, Rathvilly in Carlow, which has the honour of winning the Tidy Towns competition on three occasions in the early years - 1961, 1963 and 1968. Considerable effort has been made in recent years in my community, as in every other community, to try...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tidy Towns Committees Funding (23 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: I thank the Minister of State for that clarification. I come from a village that won the award on three occasions. Carlow has quite a good history in that regard. Only two years ago the village of Clonegal won the tidiest village national award, which was a great achievement for it. Previously, Leighlinbridge, in County Carlow, also won a substantial award. The clarification is welcome...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tidy Towns Committees Funding (23 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: Carlow.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Public Participation Networks (23 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: 45. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding provided in 2018 to the public participation networks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2994/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (23 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance the financial and health advice received from the Revenue Commissioners and the Department of Health, respectively, in relation to the proposed introduction of 23% VAT rate on health food supplements, for example, folic acid recommended to pregnant women and persons with anaemia that need iron supplements (details supplied); if this is implemented, if...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (24 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: 46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to end the use of non-recyclable plastics. [3182/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicles (24 Jan 2019)

Pat Deering: 43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to develop a modern EV charging network; and the location of new EV chargers being funded by the climate action fund. [3181/19]