Results 3,701-3,720 of 16,057 for speaker:Mary Coughlan

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (21 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The person submitted an application for consideration of his circumstances under the force majeure, exceptional circumstances measure of the single payment scheme. Having processed this application, the single payment entitlements unit informed the person that the circumstances outlined did not fulfil the force majeure criteria laid down in Article 40 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1782/2003...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (21 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: Funding for research into the control of varroa in honey bees has been the main element of my Department's apiculture programme. From 2002 to 2004, a total of €138,800 was provided to Teagasc towards the development of integrated biological control methods under Irish conditions. Approval has been given for expenditure of a further €225,000 for the period from 2005 to 2007 for this...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (21 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The person declared a forage area of 43.37 hectares on his 2004 area aid application. Following a stocking density calculation, the stocking level was found to be 1.42 livestock units per hectare. In line with the EU regulations governing the livestock premia schemes, this entitled the person to the lower extensification premium rate of €40 per animal. While the person named submitted a...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (21 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The implementation of the nitrates directive is a matter, in the first instance, for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. In December, the Minister made regulations giving legal effect to Ireland's national action programme under the nitrates directive. These regulations were finalised following difficult negotiations between the European Commission and officials...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (21 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The person submitted an application for consideration in respect of the inheritance measure of the single payment scheme. A letter informing him that his application has been successful has issued to him and payment will issue shortly.

Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (21 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: All new forests established since 1990 qualify under the Kyoto Protocol in terms of helping us meet our emission reduction targets. New forests established within the first Kyoto commitment period, from 2008-2012, will also contribute to the total sequestration capacity. The best current estimate of total sequestration capacity over this period amounts on average to 10.3 million tonnes of...

Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (22 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The Kilconnell cow park trust has six trustees, five of whom were appointed in 2002. The additional trustees were appointed with a view to devolving the trust property back to the community for general community purposes, its use as a cow park having effectively come to an end. The trustees have recently submitted a proposal to transfer the land for community purposes to Kilconnell Community...

Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (22 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The current early retirement scheme sets an off-farm income limit for transferees. In the report on the scheme which it published last year, the Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food recommended that this limit be removed. I am still considering this recommendation, along with a number of others that the committee made, and I hope to announce my decision in due course.

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (22 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: I have not received representations from or had any meetings with the Open Republic Institute.

Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (22 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: Allocations of milk quota may be made from the national reserve according to objective criteria but the provision of financial assistance for the sale or purchase of quota is not permitted under EU regulations. Generally, the volume available from the national reserve for permanent allocation each year is limited by the amount of quota that is returned to the reserve that year from certain...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (22 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application under the single payment scheme on 12 May 2005. The ownership details of the herd number changed in December 2002. A request to transfer these entitlements to the person named was received in January 2006 and this has now been fully processed. The person named also applied to have his entitlements consolidated under the consolidation measure of the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (22 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The supplied table sets out the number of farmers in each county whose payments under the 2005 single payment scheme had issued by 21 March 2006. The number of applications with outstanding problems, which must be solved prior to payment, is also set out. Payments are continuing to issue to farmers as their applications are processed to completion, in accordance with the EU legislation...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (22 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The person concerned is an applicant for grant aid under the installation aid scheme and submitted a preliminary application, IAS 1 form, to my Department on 3 March 2006. As the application was received outside the six-month period laid down in the scheme for its submission, the applicant has requested that the principles of force majeure be applied in this case. The matter is being examined...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (22 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: An application under the 2005 single payment scheme was received from the person named on 10 May 2005. Under EU legislation, in order to draw down his or her full single payment, an applicant must declare an eligible hectare to accompany each entitlement. This requirement was set out clearly in the documentation supplied to farmers on a number of occasions. However, as the person named...

Written Answers — Agricultural Buildings: Agricultural Buildings (22 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 211 and 212 together. In order to construct an anaerobic digester, planning permission from a local authority and approval from the Environmental Protection Agency is required. No approval from my Department is required. However, if on completion of the premises, it is proposed to use animal by-products as a feedstock in the digester, the approval of my...

Written Answers — Sugar Beet Industry: Sugar Beet Industry (22 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The agreement on reform of the EU sugar regime provides for compensation by way of a restructuring scheme in the event of a decision to cease sugar production. Under this scheme, a restructuring fund becomes available for the economic, social and environmental costs of restructuring of the sugar industry, including factory closure and renunciation of quota. In Ireland's case, this would be...

Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (22 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: I understand that the Animal Welfare Bill currently being discussed in the United Kingdom provides for a ban on using certain wild animals in travelling circuses. My Department's responsibilities relating to circus animals are confined solely to ensuring animals imported for use in a circus are imported in accordance with animal health certification requirements. The Protection of Animals...

Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: It is a requirement of EU Council Regulation 2079/92, under which the 1994 early retirement scheme was introduced, that the early retirement pension can be paid only as a supplement to any national retirement pension that the participant and his or her spouse, or partner in a joint management arrangement, receive. This means that the value of any national retirement pension payable must be...

Written Answers — Departmental Advertising: Departmental Advertising (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: My Department did not place or pay for the notice referred to by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (23 Mar 2006)

Mary Coughlan: My Department is satisfied that the person holding the lease on the inherited land is entitled to make application for REPS in her own right on the lands in question. This application, like all REPS applications, will be subject to normal REPS approval procedures.