Results 661-680 of 3,225 for speaker:Paul Connaughton Snr

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (1 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 290: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason the single payment has not been awarded to persons (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason the single payment is so low; if there is enough land owned by the herdowners to have the full entitlement paid on the land in question; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3534/06]

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (1 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 332: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the Loughrea regional water supply scheme submitted by Galway County Council to his Department on 30 June 2005; if the parish of Kilrickle will be included in that particular scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3533/06]

Written Answers — Medical Aids and Appliances: Medical Aids and Appliances (7 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 249: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason an application for the provision of a mobile wheelchair for a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not been approved; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this person is becoming more dependent every passing day on the services of a wheelchair; if her attention has further been drawn to...

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (7 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 324: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the IDA has not secured an industrialist for the new IDA industrial park, Tuam, County Galway; the number of potential clients that the IDA has brought to the site to date in 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4259/06]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (7 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 394: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if entitlements under various national reserve headings have been credited to persons (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4132/06]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (7 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 402: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a forestry premium has not been awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4261/06]

Written Answers — Registration of Title: Registration of Title (7 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 455: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for registration for a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4260/06]

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: They are very close to what the Minister is proposing. Stay in bed, Mary.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The two Marys have delivered well.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The nitrates directive is a shambles as the Minister knows better than most.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The Minister had a great chance to do something about this but she did nothing about it.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Indeed. I assume the same applies to the Minister.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: This has turned out to be a different proposition from that which should have been implemented three months ago. Since the Minister took office she has closed three vital farming sectors. She stood aside when the beet growers were wiped off the face of the earth a few months ago. To compound that, she and that great advocate——

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The Minister does not like listening to this but she is going to hear because she should hear it.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Where did the sugar industry go? It was wiped off the face of the earth.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: That great advocate and friend of the farming community, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Roche, has connived with the Minister for Agriculture and Food to destroy the livelihood of every pig and poultry farmer in the country. The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government appeared on television last night doing his level best to ensure...

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The Minister does not want to answer.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: That is a three-card trick answer. The Minister should tell the House what she thinks of Teagasc.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: No Minister in the history of the State has done more damage in a year than this Minister. It is nothing short of outrageous that the sugar beet, pig and poultry producers are consigned to the bogholes of Ireland. They are gone. The Minister has wiped them out.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The Minister does not even acknowledge their contribution. That is bad, but what the Minister is doing to the 50,000 farmers in REPS is nothing short of despicable. She and the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government frightened the daylights out of the decent hard-working farmers who, being environmentally conscious, committed their farms——