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- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Sugar Beet Industry (18 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: That is history, but that compensation was paid for the remainder of the current sugar regime which ends in 2015. The Commission proposal as part of the CAP reform is that we will abolish sugar quotas in the EU after 2015. That would leave Ireland, or anybody else who wants to process sugar, free to do so and take their chances on the open market. That will not happen, however, because...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Sugar Beet Industry (18 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: I will keep the House updated if there are any significant changes in policy.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Sugar Beet Industry (18 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: That is okay.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Sugar Beet Industry (18 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: I thank the Senator for raising the issue because it is relevant. There are many interests that for some time have been discussing whether it is possible for Ireland to start processing sugar again from sugar beet. As somebody who has driven many tractors and trailers with sugar beet into what was previously the Mallow factory, when I worked on a farm in Mallow, and on our farm at home for...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Sugar Beet Industry (18 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: That is history, but that compensation was paid for the remainder of the current sugar regime which ends in 2015. The Commission proposal as part of the CAP reform is that we will abolish sugar quotas in the EU after 2015. That would leave Ireland, or anybody else who wants to process sugar, free to do so and take their chances on the open market. That will not happen, however, because...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Sugar Beet Industry (18 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: I will keep the House updated if there are any significant changes in policy.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Sugar Beet Industry (18 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: That is okay.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Sugar Beet Industry (18 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: I thank the Senator for raising the issue because it is relevant. There are many interests that for some time have been discussing whether it is possible for Ireland to start processing sugar again from sugar beet. As somebody who has driven many tractors and trailers with sugar beet into what was previously the Mallow factory, when I worked on a farm in Mallow, and on our farm at home for...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Sugar Beet Industry (18 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: That is history, but that compensation was paid for the remainder of the current sugar regime which ends in 2015. The Commission proposal as part of the CAP reform is that we will abolish sugar quotas in the EU after 2015. That would leave Ireland, or anybody else who wants to process sugar, free to do so and take their chances on the open market. That will not happen, however, because...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Sugar Beet Industry (18 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: I will keep the House updated if there are any significant changes in policy.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Size (23 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: he following table gives a breakdown of farm size drawn from the data in the CSO’s 2007 Farm Structures Survey, the most recent such survey. This data will be updated in full when detailed results from the 2010 Census of Agriculture are released later this year. Farm Size (ha) Number of Farms % of Farms < 5 8,400 6.55% 5 to <10 16,200 12.64% 10 to <20 30,500...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Correspondence (23 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: The land the subject of this case is the subject of a private law matter between the person named and a third party as to the ownership of the lands. I am not in a position to comment until the private law matter has been resolved.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Íocaíochtaí Deontas (23 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: Is iarratasóir é an té atá i gceist faoi Scéim na Limistéar faoi Mhíbhuntáiste 2012. Faoi láthair, tá an t-iarratasóir sin ar dhuine de roinnt daoine, a bhfuil tionchar ag an gceanglas maidir le dlús stocála 0.3 d'aonaid bheostoic in aghaidh gach heicteár foráiste ar a laghad ar a gcásanna agus a rinne iarratas...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Íocaíochtaí Deontas (23 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: Is iarratasóir é an té atá i gceist faoi Scéim na Limistéar faoi Mhíbhuntáiste 2012. Faoi láthair, tá an t-iarratasóir sin ar dhuine de roinnt daoine, a bhfuil tionchar ag an gceanglas maidir le dlús stocála 0.3 d'aonaid bheostoic in aghaidh gach heicteár foráiste ar a laghad ar a gcásanna agus a rinne iarratas...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (23 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: An application under the 2012 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 10 March 2012. However, payment has not yet issued as, at this stage, the holding of the person named has not yet satisfied the Scheme minimum stocking density requirement which have been notified to all Scheme applicants. Immediately the holding of the person named is confirmed as having met this...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (23 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: An application under the 2012 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 23 April 2012. However, payment has not yet issued as, at this stage, the holding of the person named has not yet satisfied the Scheme minimum stocking density requirements, which have been notified to all Scheme applicants. Immediately the holding concerned is confirmed as having met these...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (23 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: An application under the 2012 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 23 April 2012. However, payment has not yet issued as, at this stage, it has not been possible to verify that one of the Terms and Conditions governing the 2012 Scheme, relating to maintaining an annual average of 0.15 livestock units per forage acre declared, has been satisfied. Once it has been...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (23 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: As processing of the application concerned has recently been completed, payment will shortly issue to the nominated bank account of the person named.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (23 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: While an application under the 2012 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 30 April 2012, payment has not issued as the conditions of the Scheme have not been satisfied, at this stage. The Terms and Conditions governing the Scheme require, inter alia , that all equine premises must be registered with the Department in accordance with S.I No 8 of 2012 (Disease of...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (23 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: Processing of the application concerned has recently been completed and payments under the Single Payment Scheme and Disadvantaged Areas Scheme will shortly issue to the nominated bank account of the person named.