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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)

Martin Ferris: I welcome Mr. Barry and Mr. Nolan and thank them for their attendance today. I am very disappointed that we do not have anybody from the roads service in the North before us. Who indicated that a party from the service would not be here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)

Martin Ferris: Did that come from the Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Border Region Road Links: Discussion with NRA (24 Oct 2013)

Martin Ferris: We should write to the Minister and seek an explanation as to why they are not here today. All of us are making a significant effort to try to drive the project forward, and part of it is a cross-Border aspect that regards the roads service from the North of Ireland and the National Roads Authority here. It is very disappointing that representatives have not turned up and I am concerned...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economic Development: Discussion with InterTradeIreland (24 Oct 2013)

Martin Ferris: I thank Mr. Hunter McGowan and Mr. Gough for their presentation. There are differentials with regard to excise, VAT, other taxation measures, compliance issues, environment and the labour force. How can we overcome the differences between the two jurisdictions? How does InterTradeIreland work percentage wise between take-up in the Six Counties and the 26 counties and with regard to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economic Development: Discussion with InterTradeIreland (24 Oct 2013)

Martin Ferris: I asked about excise, VAT, measures on taxation, compliance issues and environmental and labour laws. How do these impact on trade and co-operation in the different jurisdictions?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Review (5 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 510. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views regarding realignment of community employment schemes. [46223/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Review (5 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 511. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the effects the realignment of community employment schemes will have on supervisors and the local sponsor group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46224/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Review (5 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 512. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the current discussions that are happening between her Department and community employment scheme sponsors around the State. [46225/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbour Authority Properties (5 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 902. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Dublin regarding the leasing of a premises for a vessel repair workshop on the West pier of Howth, County Dublin from his Department ; and if he intends to respond to this person on this matter. [46380/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (5 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 1049. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in a transfer by ambulance of a seriously ill infant to the Bon Secours Hospital, Cork form Kerry General Hospital on 17 September 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45770/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. It is annoying and embarrassing that it is possible to buy milk in this part of our island that has been processed in the other part of the island without the same legal entitlements from the NDC. It is effectively cementing partition for want of a better word and is an indictment. Mr. Cunningham said his company provided 250 jobs. How many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: The Strathroy processing plant is in Omagh and five other counties were mentioned in the presentation. Mr. Cunningham mentioned that he bought heifers or cows in the South, brought them back, milked them there, brought them back down to the South and yet the company is being discriminated against. Mr. Cunningham mentioned that it is anti-competitive and contravenes EU legislation. Whereas...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: If Strathroy Dairy Limited had a plant in the South and sourced its milk on both sides of the Border, it could buy most of its milk in the North and sell it in the South under the NDC brand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: Not all of the milk. If a portion was from the North and a portion was from the South.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: I would like to find out why the National Dairy Council refused to allow its logo be used on the witnesses' product given that it was farmed in the Republic of Ireland.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Threat (7 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 185. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the confirmation of ash dieback disease in a hedgerow in Ballinamore, County Leitrim; if he established where the disease originated; the quantity of firewood that has been lost through the culling of ash trees; if restoration works will be carried out to the stock proof fencing damaged by the removal of the trees and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbour Authority Properties (12 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 371. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to publicly advertise a public competitive tendering process for the leasing of vacant properties, at State-owned fishery harbour centres, including Howth, County Dublin, in the near future; when this process might begin. [48188/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (12 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 462. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question 1049 of 5 November 2013, the reason a seriously ill infant had to wait for a private ambulance to arrive from Cork to get a transfer to the Bons Secours Hospital, Cork form Kerry General Hospital on 17 September 2013 when there were public ambulances available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48100/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Quotas (13 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 155. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the proposed increase in mackerel quota of 300,000 tonnes will be allocated to EU countries or countries outside of the EU. [48564/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Agreements (13 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 148. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the standards which will be applied to Canadian beef and pork imports to Ireland as a result of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement signed between the EU and Canada last month. [48557/13]