Results 4,161-4,180 of 4,571 for speaker:Trevor Sargent

World Trade Organisation Negotiations: Motion (17 Apr 2008)

Trevor Sargent: The Deputy is a clown.

World Trade Organisation Negotiations: Motion (17 Apr 2008)

Trevor Sargent: The Deputy does not know what he is talking about.

World Trade Organisation Negotiations: Motion (17 Apr 2008)

Trevor Sargent: Ba mhaith liom mo chuid ama a roinnt leis na Teachtaí Timmy Dooley, Johnny Brady, Mary Alexandra White agus Martin Mansergh. Beidh deich nóiméad agam agus cúig noiméad an duine ag na Teachtaí eile. Tugaim lán-tacaíocht don leasú ar an rún atá curtha chun cinn ag an Rialtas, mar atá molta ag mo chomhghleacaí an tAire Talmhaíochta, Iascaigh agus Bia, an Teachta Máire Ní...

Rural Environment Protection Scheme. (20 May 2008)

Trevor Sargent: The mixed grazing supplementary measure is available to farmers joining REPS 4. Ultimately REPS is a voluntary, demand-led scheme and it is open to farmers to decide whether they want to take on the measure. It is still too early to judge how popular it is. On the basis of 3,800 applications for REPS 4 that were received and analysed by the end of last month, 240 applicants were opting for...

Rural Environment Protection Scheme. (20 May 2008)

Trevor Sargent: Considerable lateral thinking has informed the background to the scheme. The Deputy will be aware that it was made very clear in the discussions with the Commission that the scheme is an environmental scheme, not a production scheme. We tried to include the sheep-only option but it was a step too far from the Commission's point of view because it wanted to ensure the measure was clearly...

Rural Environment Protection Scheme. (20 May 2008)

Trevor Sargent: It is interesting to hear the Deputy make this point because I can imagine that were the scheme over-subscribed, there would be hell to pay, had the Department failed to put in place sufficient money——

Rural Environment Protection Scheme. (20 May 2008)

Trevor Sargent: I prefer to have complaints that too much, rather than too little, money is in place for the existing demand.

Rural Environment Protection Scheme. (20 May 2008)

Trevor Sargent: Perhaps Members can agree the fund is not lacking and that adequate finance is available. Obviously it will require people to draw it down and this is where the information must be evaluated.

Rural Environment Protection Scheme. (20 May 2008)

Trevor Sargent: It is the most workable scheme that could be arrived at——

Rural Environment Protection Scheme. (20 May 2008)

Trevor Sargent: ——in co-operation with the Commission, on the basis it had to be environmentally-led. It allows for people to benefit from the REPS payment in addition to their existing REPS payments. Hopefully this will be of benefit to those who have applied.

Dublin Transport Authority Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (21 May 2008)

Trevor Sargent: It is a long way from Tipperary.

Carbon Allowances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2008)

Trevor Sargent: I apologise for the Minister's absence; he had to go to Luxembourg.

Carbon Allowances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2008)

Trevor Sargent: He had a meeting in Luxembourg.

Carbon Allowances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2008)

Trevor Sargent: It is a cross-party issue.

Farm Waste Management. (1 Jul 2008)

Trevor Sargent: The farm waste management scheme was introduced by our Department in March 2006 in order to assist farmers to meet the additional requirements of the nitrates directive. Under the scheme, a standard grant rate of 60%, or 70% in the four zone C counties, was available, and €114 million was spent on this scheme in 2007. Payment claims substantially in excess of this figure are expected in...

Farm Waste Management. (1 Jul 2008)

Trevor Sargent: I have no doubt there will be many items on the social partnership agenda, of which this will be one. I cannot pre-empt what will happen there. We are working within the result of a lobbying effort to the European Commission. That has given us the date in question, and the Deputy will acknowledge there is not much room for movement on that basis. There is a dynamic which should be of...

Farm Waste Management. (1 Jul 2008)

Trevor Sargent: Some were withdrawn.

Farm Waste Management. (1 Jul 2008)

Trevor Sargent: I agree this is a very beneficial scheme, which is also generous. It is a once-off and it was very clear in March 2006, when it was introduced, that it was the time to get involved and get the work done. There has been much foot dragging, as the Deputy knows, over the years when it comes to the implementation of the directive in question. Far from going cap in hand, we have received...

Veterinary Service. (1 Jul 2008)

Trevor Sargent: The report on veterinary practitioners by the Competition Authority was published on 19 June. While the report found that legislation introduced by my Department in 2005 had gone a long way towards modernising the profession, it concluded that some reforms were still needed for consumers to benefit from competition. It has identified the following restrictions which it believes need to be...

Veterinary Service. (1 Jul 2008)

Trevor Sargent: Given that the report was received as recently as 19 June, the Department needs time to study it in greater detail. Nevertheless, nothing has been ruled out. The lack of availability of veterinary practitioners, a point raised by Deputy Penrose, is one of the reasons the Competition Authority has called for advertising rules to be released so as to ensure greater innovation and competition....