Results 6,301-6,320 of 16,057 for speaker:Mary Coughlan

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: An application under the 2006 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 19 April 2006. In accordance with the provisions of the EU Regulations governing the Single Payment Scheme, the application was randomly selected for inspection. The inspection, which was carried out on 17 November 2006, confirmed the detail of the application as submitted by the person named. Full...

Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (26 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: It was necessary to suspend payment of the Early Retirement pension to the person named in October 2006, because her farming transferee disposed of a portion of the pension lands. This could have been a breach of the Scheme requirements. On investigation, however, my officials established that the lands disposed of had been replaced with an equivalent area, so no breach of the Scheme had...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: The person named and his brother had been farming together. In the year 2000 they decided to apply to have one brother's name removed from the herd number. This was done in 2001. The reference years for the Single Payment Scheme were 2000 to 2002. Some Single Payment entitlements were in the joint names of the two brothers and the remainder was in the name of the person named. Arrangements...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: The position is that the Single Payment Scheme is applicable to farmers who farmed during the three -year reference period 2000 — 2002, who drew down livestock or Arable Aid premia in at least one of those years and who continued to farm in 2005. The Single Payment Scheme entitlements established for individual farmers therefore is a true reflection of their farming activity and premia...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: Payments under the Farm Waste Management Scheme are progressing satisfactorily with over €31.7 million spent, to date, under the Scheme in 2007 compared to €21.3 million during the whole of the 2006 calendar year.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: Due to the significant increase in applications under the Farm Waste Management Scheme, I introduced revised procedures in order to speed up the process of issuing approvals under the Scheme. These include the streamlining of administrative procedures for the approval of applications and the release to applicants of my Department's Standard Costings used to assess the financial implications...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 461 and 463 together. The person named applied in September 2005 to transfer entitlements by way of Private Contract Clause (Sale) under the provisions of Article 17 of EU Commission Regulation 795/2004. He subsequently applied to trade entitlements under Article 46 of EU Council Regulation 1782/2003. The case was complicated by the fact that the person named...

Written Answers — Commonage Division: Commonage Division (26 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: The allotment of one of the three shares on the commonage to the person named is in accordance with the completion of a scheme prepared by the former Land Commission. One of my Inspectors recently visited the person but he was not home on that occasion. He subsequently spoke to him on the telephone and will be in touch with him again prior to the operation of the scheme.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: The person concerned is an applicant under the Farm Waste Management Scheme. Payment will be made by my Department to the applicant shortly.

Written Answers — Registration of Title: Registration of Title (26 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: The land the subject of this question was vested by the former Land Commission in 1936 which resulted in the opening of the original Folio, from which the Folios mentioned have devolved. Ownership subsequently changed in 1954 in a private transaction. It was subsequently transferred to the current Folio in another private transaction in 1985. No mention appears to have been made to the small...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: The higher rate of grant under the Installation Aid Scheme is available to applicants set-up in farming for the first time between 1 May and 31 December 2006 provided they meet the relevant conditions of the Scheme. The person concerned has only submitted an initial application (IAS 1) under the Scheme and has not yet submitted an application for payment (IAS 2). Final verification of the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: The position is that an application for the Transfer of Entitlements from the person named under the 2007 Single Payment Scheme was submitted on the 2nd of March 2007. This application has been processed and acceptance letters issued to the person named informing him that 21.06 entitlements were transferred by way of sale to another farmer. A separate application was also submitted to...

Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (26 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: REPS 4 will form part of the new Rural Development Programme for the period from 2007 to 2013. The draft Programme was sent to the European Commission in late December 2006. Since then, my officials have responded to a substantial number of queries and requests for clarification from their counterparts in the Commission services. I am hopeful that this process is coming to a conclusion and...

Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (26 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: The person concerned is an applicant under the Farm Waste Management Scheme and has received approval from my Department to commence the relevant works. However, notification of completion of works (Card C) and related supporting documents have not yet been received from the applicant.

Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (26 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: The person named is an applicant for grant-aid under the Farm Waste Management Scheme. Approval to proceed with the relevant works was issued by my Department to the person concerned on 31 May 2007.

Written Answers — Animal Diseases: Animal Diseases (26 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: The EU Directive 64/432/EEC on animal health problems affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals provides that, where an animal reacts positively to a TB test, the officially tuberculosis-free status of a herd is to remain withdrawn until all animals over six weeks of age have reacted negatively to at least two consecutive tuberculin tests, the first no less than 60 days and the second...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application under the Consolidation measure of the 2005 Single Payments Scheme. Difficulties have arisen in relation to the application to consolidate the applicant's entitlements. This affects his 2006 Single Payment. An official of my Department will make direct contact with the person named with a view to resolving these difficulties.

Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (26 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Question Nos. 474 and 475 together. Last year the EU Commission presented proposals for a Regulation banning the import to or export from the Community and the placing on the market of cat and dog fur and products containing such fur. The proposal, which has my full support, was introduced to address EU citizens' concerns regarding the adverse treatment of companion animals...

Written Answers — Departmental Projects: Departmental Projects (26 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: The Department of Finance's "Guidelines for the Appraisal and Management of Capital Expenditure Proposals in the Public Sector" require that projects of a value in excess of €30 million be subject to a full cost/benefit analysis. Almost all capital expenditure in my Department relates to capital grant schemes involving relatively small scale investments by farmers and others in the...

Written Answers — Interpretation Act 2005: Interpretation Act 2005 (27 Jun 2007)

Mary Coughlan: I am not aware of any decision or legislation, operated by this Department, having been overturned, or amended by specific reference to this section.