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Agriculture Industry: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: I commend Fianna Fáil on tabling this motion. I listened with great interest to the debate thus far. It was ironic to hear the Minister's presentation on how wonderful things are for the farming community and how great farmers are doing. He claims that everything is on the up.

Agriculture Industry: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: The reality is that large numbers in our farming community are on their knees. The Minister knows it, I know it and Deputies McNamara and Connaughton knows it. They are on their knees because a cartel is in operation and the market is being manipulated by the cartel and by the multiples. The figures are frightening. In the farming section of today's Irish Independent, Joe Healy calculated...

Agriculture Industry: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: It is €3.30 a kilo. It is at the average European price. Deputies McNamara and Connaughton mentioned live exports. If the Minister does not get live exports up and running quickly to take the surplus second grade cattle out of the country it will collapse further. That will make matters worse for the producer and will have huge social consequences, particularly for people on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Total Allowable Catches and Quotas for 2015 under Common Fisheries Policy: BirdWatch Ireland (7 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: I thank Ms Gomes for her presentation. She uses scientific analysis when it comes to conservation. While I respect a great deal of the scientific evidence, on its own it is not sufficient. Coming from a fishing background, I was always worried about the buy-in by fishermen because of exclusion. The best people to conserve stocks are the stakeholders who must survive off them. We have an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Total Allowable Catches and Quotas for 2015 under Common Fisheries Policy: BirdWatch Ireland (7 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: It is in all our interests to ensure that the maximum sustainable yield is maintained and sustained. There is a link to total allowable catch. We have to find a way to bring these together to ensure the stocks survive. Ms Gomes referred to restoring 43 over-fished European stocks. She stated that 3.5 million tonnes of additional fish could be landed each year as a consequence, that an...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (8 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary is entitled to a refund from the Revenue Commissioners for having been wrongly penalised for alleged overpayments which were taken out of their single farm payment over recent years. [38305/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Imports (8 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: 86. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of tonnes of beef imported here in 2014. [38422/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Imports (8 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: 88. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the country of origin of the beef imported here in 2014. [38424/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Imports (8 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: 87. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the persons his Department granted licences to import beef in 2014. [38423/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheepmeat Sector (8 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: 89. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the new restrictions on the movement of breeding ewes and hoggets from here to Northern Ireland across the Border; and the effects of these restrictions on livestock marts and breeders here. [38425/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: (Resumed) Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: I thank Mr. Gleeson for his presentation. The entire process has been open and helpful and it will help all of us to come to the proper decision.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (9 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: 121. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a case of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick regarding a medical card application. [38587/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (9 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: 122. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick who has been waiting five months for same. [38588/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Northern Ireland Peace Monitoring Report: Northern Ireland Community Relations Council (9 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: I thank Mr. Osborne for his presentation and welcome him. The key to the success of reconciliation is leadership from a political and electoral side, from local government, business leaders, churches – given that the North is a very sectarian society – and sporting bodies, which can be sectarian and can be manipulated to be sectarian. Leadership must come from the ground up in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Northern Ireland Peace Monitoring Report: Northern Ireland Community Relations Council (9 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: The report refers specifically to the problems encountered by young working class Protestant males. We are told that 24% of young men aged 16 to 24 are unemployed in Protestant areas, compared with a figure of 17% in Catholic areas. Am I correct in saying that, proportionally, the largest percentage of unemployed young people would be in working class areas in east and north Belfast? There...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Safety Standards Regulation (14 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: 107. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a company's (details supplied) application for registration as a food business operator under European Communities (Food and Feed Hygiene) Regulation 2009 (S.I. No. 432 of 2009) on 4 August 2014 will be decided. [39237/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Regulation (14 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: 353. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if an Inland Fisheries Ireland operational manager has a trout fishing lodge on Lough Corrib, while, at the same time, using gillnets to fish for pike on SAC 297, Lough Corrib. [39173/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Regulation (14 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: 354. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if gillnets are allowed to be used during pike spawning season on all west of Ireland lakes. [39174/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Regulation (14 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: 355. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if Inland Fisheries Ireland allows Waterways Ireland to cut and remove weed from canals during pike spawning season. [39175/14]

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Martin Ferris: I thought when I came into the Chamber that I was going to speak on defence, as the Minister was talking about that topic. However, it is not my portfolio and I will leave that to Deputy Ó Snodaigh. Overall, the budget was very disappointing for the public. The one sector that has come out of it with an element of credibility is the Minister's portfolio of agriculture. There is no...