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Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (3 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The Irish Times, Irish Independent and Irish Examiner are available on-line to staff in my Department. The number of staff at each grade who each day receive a copy of one Irish daily newspaper which is also available on-line is contained in the following table. Secretary General 1 Assistant Secretaries General 9 Chief Inspector 1 Deputy Chief Inspector 1 Chief Veterinary...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (3 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The person named has been notified that the circumstances outlined by him did not satisfy the criteria for allocation of entitlements under the National Reserve. Following this decision the person named submitted an appeal to my Department enclosing additional documentary evidence in support of his application. My Department will now re-examine the National Reserve application in light of the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (3 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The person named has been notified that the circumstances outlined by him did not satisfy the criteria for allocation of entitlements from the National Reserve. Following this decision the person named appealed my Department's decision and submitted supporting documentation in support of his appeal. The case will now be reviewed in view of the contentions put forward on appeal and my...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (4 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: To date the introduction of the Single Payment Scheme (SPS) has led to the redeployment of 225 staff to a number of Government Departments and Offices including Revenue, Social & Family Affairs, Land Registry, Environment and Justice to operate the Garda PULSE system in Castlebar. Large numbers of staff have also been assigned to new duties within my Department including 300 staff to operate...

Written Answers — Departmental Complaints Procedures: Departmental Complaints Procedures (4 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The table shows a breakdown by category of the formal complaints made to my Department in the years 2003, 2004, and 2005. In accordance with the Department's Customer Complaints Procedure, complaints are acknowledged within five days of receipt. Each complaint is then fully and impartially investigated by an officer of my Department not involved in the matter under complaint and a substantive...

Written Answers — Departmental Complaints Procedures: Departmental Complaints Procedures (4 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: Formal complaints to my Department are logged on receipt and acknowledged within five working days. The complaint is then fully and impartially investigated by an officer who was not involved in the matter giving rise to the complaint and a substantive response is issued within twenty working days. The standard of service provided by my Department is outlined in the Departments Customer...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (4 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: My Department's local offices are staffed by veterinary, technical and administrative staff and carry out a wide range of functions, including the administration of various schemes and services. Many of these functions involve the administration of both EU and national statutory schemes and are administered by reference to standard instructions, including Departmental Circulars or Standard...

Written Answers — Agrifood Sector: Agrifood Sector (4 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: There are regular and varied contacts between my Department and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment on the development of the agri-food sector. Officials from both departments participate, for example, in the Monitoring Committee of the Productive Sector Operational Programme under the National Development Plan, the National Functional Foods Forum, and various Enterprise...

Written Answers — Animal Diseases: Animal Diseases (4 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: During 2005, 414 animals were quarantined. To date in 2006, 38 animals have been quarantined. Quarantine of animals is dealt with, generally, by officers based in my Department's District Veterinary Offices. These officers also have responsibilities in a wide number of other areas related to animal health and welfare, disease control etc. A total of 35 quarantine inspections were carried out...

Written Answers — National Development Plan: National Development Plan (4 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The Research Stimulus Fund Programme provides support on a competitive basis for "public good" research carried out by research institutions including the universities and Teagasc and is aimed at filling R&D gaps in research activity in production agriculture, environment, rural economy and policy related measures. The research results are made freely available. In the period 2001 to 2005 a...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The persons named submitted a Single Payment Scheme application on 11 May 2005 under herd number G2321032. They had established 153.72 entitlements under this herd number and having processed the application a payment in the amount €48,964.95 in respect of 134.59 entitlements issued on 16 December 2005. This payment represented the 134.59 eligible hectares declared on their 2005 Single...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The inheritance application submitted in this case has been successfully processed. The person involved is in the process of obtaining a Herd Number, and once this has been accomplished his Single Payment will issue.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted a Private Contract Clause application to transfer 5.57 of his 19.84 entitlements by way of a lease agreement under the 2005 Single Payment Scheme. The application was successful, and the entitlements were transferred to the lessee. The applicant has been fully paid on his remaining 14.27 entitlements under the 2005 Single Payment Scheme.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: 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 in 2002 but who received no direct payments in respect of that scheme year. The person named has been notified that the circumstances outlined by him...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application for an allocation of entitlements from the Single Payment Scheme National Reserve under Category B. Category B caters for farmers who, between 1 January 2000 and 19 October 2003, made an investment in production capacity in a farming sector for which a direct payment under Livestock Premia and/or Arable Aid schemes would have been payable during the...

Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (4 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 177 and 178 together. The term "clawback" was widely used in the 1990s to describe the forfeiture to the national reserve of a portion of a transferor's milk quota where the associated dairying lands were subject to transfer in certain circumstances. The measure has not applied in the past 5 years. The European Communities (Milk Quota) Regulations, 2000...

Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (4 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: Participants in the Early Retirement Scheme may be granted approval to establish new leases for land and quota, other than with family members, in limited circumstances only. In particular, as set down in the European Communities (Milk Quota) Regulations, 2000 such approvals may only be granted where the existing lessee has reasonable cause not to renew the lease.

Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (4 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The table outlines the quantity of milk quota offered into Temporary Leasing Schemes in each of the past five years, and the quantity of milk quota involved in land and quota leases in each of those years. Quota year Quantity offered into Temporary Leasing Scheme — all stages Quantity of Quota leased with land (Million Litres) (Million Litres) 2005/2006 94 91 ...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: In general, the Single Payment Scheme in 2005 was applicable to farmers who actively farmed in all or any of the three reference years 2000, 2001 and 2002, who were paid Livestock Premia and/or Arable Aid payments in one or more of those years and who submitted a valid 2005 Single Payment Scheme application. Based on the farming activity during the reference years, the person named...

Written Answers — Rural Development: Rural Development (4 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: My Department received the submission in question in the past week and it is currently being examined. A detailed reply will issue to ICSA in due course.