Results 5,441-5,460 of 18,459 for speaker:Brendan Smith
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Due to industrial action by staff in my Department, I am unable to provide a reply to this question.
- Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: The Animal Health and Welfare Bill which gives effect to commitments in the Programme for Government and the Renewed Programme for Government on issues relating to animal health and welfare is being prepared in my Department. The new legislation will amend and consolidate legislation in the area of animal health, particularly to reflect the changed disease status of our animals. Existing...
- Written Answers — Fisheries Policy: Fisheries Policy (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: I propose to take Questions Nos. 398 and 403 together. The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has no proposals to publish an inter-departmental group report on the coastal sector. The Department has recently published and submitted to the European Commission the National Response to the EU Green Paper on Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy. That report can be obtained at...
- Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Eight transporters of live dogs applied for an authorisation to my Department. An application form and explanatory information on the legislation that governs the transport of live animals, including Council Regulation (EC) No 1 of 2005 on the protection of animals during transport and related operations and amending Directives 64/432/EEC and 93/119/EC and Regulation (EC) No 1255/97 and S.I....
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Due to industrial action by staff in my Department, I am unable to provide a reply to this question.
- Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: EU pet passports are not issued to authorised transporters but rather directly to pet owners via their veterinary practitioner. Pet passport applications are completed by pet owners and submitted to my Department by the veterinary practitioner following micro-chipping of the animal. The passport is issued to the veterinary practitioner who enters details of rabies vaccination, blood test...
- Written Answers — Live Exports: Live Exports (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: There is no prohibition on the movement of sheep to or from Northern Ireland. However since the FMD outbreak in 2001 and arising from certain concerns relating to scrapie, all exports of breeding sheep must be inspected by an official veterinarian during the 24 hours preceding the loading of the animals and issued with an intra-Community health certificate signed by the official veterinarian....
- Written Answers — Food Industry: Food Industry (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: The Government has announced a â¬100 million fund to improve the food industry's competitiveness over the next four years. The roll-out of this fund will commence in 2010 with â¬9.5 million being provided through my Department as part of the Revised Estimates. Of this amount, â¬7 million will be administered by Enterprise Ireland towards measures aimed at competitiveness issues and â¬2.5...
- Written Answers — Crop Losses: Crop Losses (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: There is no record of an application from the person named under the flood related Fodder Aid Scheme, which I launched in November 2009, targeted at farmers who encountered damage to fodder (silage or hay or concentrates) in areas which suffered flooding in November 2009. The Scheme required farmers to demonstrate that the fodder was damaged and the extent of that damage: the aid was only...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Due to industrial action by staff in my Department, I am unable to provide a reply to this question.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Due to industrial action by staff in my Department, I am not in a position to provide a reply to this question.
- Written Answers — Departmental Transport: Departmental Transport (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Due to industrial action by staff in my Department, I am not in a position to provide a reply to this question. Replies to Questions Nos. 409 to 459, inclusive, not received from the Department.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (10 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Due to industrial action by staff in my Department, I am not in a position to provide a reply to this question.
- Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (10 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: This is a matter for Teagasc, the legal successors to the Council of the Agriculture Institute, with which the person concerned was employed.
- Written Answers — Crop Losses: Crop Losses (10 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: An application under the Frost Damage Scheme, which I introduced to provide some compensation for damage to potatoes and vegetables caused by frost damage in January of this year, was received from the person named and I am pleased to say that the necessary inspection will take place within the coming days.
- Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (10 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Due to Industrial Action in my Department I am not in a position to provide a reply to this question.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (10 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Due to industrial action by staff in my Department, I am not in a position to provide a reply to this question.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (10 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: The person named was allocated 36.39 Single Payment entitlements to the value of â¬158.29 each in 2005. The EU Regulations governing the Single Payment Scheme provide that a farmer must use his/her entitlements at least once over a three consecutive year period by submitting an application under the Scheme and declaring an eligible hectare in respect of each entitlement held. If the...
- Written Answers — Animal By-products: Animal By-products (10 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: The use or disposal of animal by-products (ABP) is controlled under Regulation (EC) No. 1774 of 2002. The Regulation, which came into effect in Ireland in 2003, classifies animal by-products into three risk categories, ranging from Category 1 (high risk) material to Category 3 (which poses little or no risk) and requires each category to be subject to an appropriate level of regulatory...
- Written Answers — Live Exports: Live Exports (10 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Live exports continue to be an important outlet for Irish cattle, providing an essential element of competition with the beef trade. Following the abolition of export refunds on live animals, other than for breeding, this trade is now almost exclusively with other EU Member States. Live cattle exports surged to over 286,000 head in 2009, almost double the level recorded in 2008. In the...