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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Stormont House Agreement: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (2 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: I wish to comment on what is referred to as Border criminality, fuel laundering and the dumping of sludge. It is much wider than that. There is extortion and people have been badly injured. Recently one person, Frank McCabe Jnr, was blinded and lost his eye when he was removing a derogatory poster when he was going to work at 6 a.m. Another person was shot in the south Armagh area. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (14 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: I thank the witnesses. This meeting is long overdue. All of us who represent rural communities, particularly where there is a great deal of marginal land, have not quite been inundated but have received a large amount of representations concerning the land eligibility problem. Everyone agrees that many people have found themselves having penalties imposed as a result of doing what they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (14 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: The solution is to be found in the room. It is coming across loud and clear. The problem is that there has been an abdication of responsibility. The expectation is that the Minister and the Department will draw up the criteria. However, the witnesses know bloody well that if they do so it would not be in the interests of farmers. A working group must find a cohesive and co-ordinated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (14 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: Mr. Joyce referred to traditional farming practices and how destocking undermined that position. The beginning of the problem was the removal from eligibility of land that had been destocked. Traditional farming practices changed and the whole landscape changed in many areas. As part of a way of resolving this long-term, would restocking help to claw back part of land eligibility?

Topical Issue Debate: School Completion Programme (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: In the last few budgets there were cuts to the LINK school completion programme. The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs will be aware that the service provided under the programme is for the most vulnerable children in the care of schools. It is invaluable for so many young people - young children, in particular - who come from deprived backgrounds, the Travelling community and so...

Topical Issue Debate: School Completion Programme (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: Go raibh maith agat. In particular, the school completion programme provides a service to areas and sectors in society that are less well off, for example, the Traveller community. In north Kerry in my constituency, there are 210 Traveller families. A sizeable number of their children would not be in school were it not for the availability of this programme. It has added benefits for...

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: Even if the most progressive Government with money at its disposal were to take power tomorrow, it would find itself challenged to undo the damage this Government and the one before it have done to the people, particularly in rural areas, of this country. There is a lot of spin these days from Government about so-called recovery, the spin doctors have been in overdrive in the past few weeks....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 33. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive a decision on an application for domiciliary care allowance for a child. [13884/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out his plans to adopt Article 4(1)(h) of European Union Regulation 1307/2013 to help flexibility, standards and objective criteria regarding land eligibility in marginal land, commonages and hill areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13967/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ministerial Appointments (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out his views on the statement by the Minister of State with responsibility for rural affairs to the Joint Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht to the effect that she was recently assigned to the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government; and the person who assigned the Minister of State....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Data (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 260. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of aquaculture operations that exist on land in this State; the location of same; the number of persons who are employed in them; the species that are being farmed; and the criteria for licensing them. [14226/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Offences (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 292. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-Irish vessels that have received penalty points in Irish waters in 2014 and from January to March 2015. [14590/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Offences (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 293. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Irish vessels that received penalty points in Irish waters in 2014 and from January to March 2015. [14591/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 745. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the reduction of approximately 50% in social inclusion and community activation programme funds, and of 40%, an increase of 70% in some areas, in the number of jobs in local area government services that will be lost; the provision that has been made for this cost; the source of this money; the Department that...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Development Companies Administration (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 747. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the recent comments by the Minister of State with responsibility for rural affairs to the Joint Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht, the role envisaged for Comhar na hOileáin in the future; and his plans to disband it. [14017/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Expenditure (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 765. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of his comments regarding Leader funds spent on local historical books and rural tourism brochures, the amount, and the percentage of the 2007 to 2013 Rural Development Fund Leader funds, that were spent on such documents; his response to the City and County Managers' Association submission of 2 October...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 766. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will elaborate on the allocation of moneys that were announced by him in relation to Leader funding; if he recognises that it contains many anomalies; the reason County Cork, which has three sub-regions, only received €6 million per sub-region despite the fact that in his Department's own criteria, each...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 767. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason there is no mention of funds for fishery local action groups in the Leader allocations; his plans to dispense with these groups; if there is money left over from the 2007 to 2013 Leader programme; if so, the amount of money; and his plans for same. [13966/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 799. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount allocated to each local authority in 2014 and 2015 for the adaptation and-or extension works to local authority houses for disabled persons. [14585/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 800. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount sought by local authorities in 2014 and 2015 for adaptation and-or extension works to local authority houses for disabled persons. [14586/15]