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Topical Issue Debate: Horsemeat Investigation (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: I will answer any questions the Deputy has on this issue. If he wants to ask me those questions privately, I will brief him privately. If he wants to ask me those questions on the record, we will take them in the House. If he wants to ask me those questions in committee, we will do it there. We have nothing to hide. This industry must be transparent. That is the reason for the ongoing...

Topical Issue Debate: Horsemeat Investigation (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: We have a special investigations unit which is independent within my Department. It is working with the FSAI, which is also independent, and with the Garda, which the Deputy must accept is entirely independent. I have to give political leadership, because not only do we need a thorough investigation of how this happened from an Irish perspective in order to contribute to the Europe-wide...

Topical Issue Debate: Horsemeat Investigation (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: It was the Deputy's initiative, was it?

Topical Issue Debate: Horsemeat Investigation (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: Deputy Ó Cuív keeps saying I have not answered certain questions. I have answered that question. I have produced an information note for anybody who wants it - I will send it to the Deputy this evening - on what we have done in the past 12 months regarding equine identification, passports, linking those passports with microchips, increased supervision within equine slaughtering...

State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: I would like to share time with Deputies Martin Heydon, Ann Phelan, Eamonn Maloney and Michael McNamara.

State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: I thank the Technical Group for bringing this motion before the House and giving me an opportunity to speak on the issue. I was not present for the start of the debate yesterday because I was in Brussels. I am pleased to be in the House this evening to contribute to this important debate which, however, may be somewhat premature. There is an assumption that a decision has been made and it...

State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: Coillte is not deforesting at all.

State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: We might do that.

State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: We might well decide to do what Deputy Wallace suggests. The motion indicates that we are committed to a course of action. We have not yet committed to anything. That is the whole point.

State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: The Bacon report is not the only one relating to Coillte and the Deputy is aware of that.

State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: We would not because we are not selling the lands.

State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: Read our amendment.

State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: The commercial forests of Coillte are for profit too.

State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: Nobody disputes that.

State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: What about the acreage it has acquired?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: The person named is one of a number of applicants under the 2012 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme, whose cases were impacted by the requirement to have had a minimum stocking density on their holding of 0.3 livestock units per forage hectare in 2011 and who applied for and were refused derogation in this regard. The person named subsequently availed of the option to appeal to the independently...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: The Scheme of Investment Aid for the Development of the Commercial Horticulture Sector, funded under the 2007-2013 National Development Plan, provides grant aid for horticultural growers who are making capital investments in specialist plant and equipment. The main objectives of the scheme are to improve the quality of products, to facilitate environmentally friendly practices and promote...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Suckler Welfare Scheme Applications (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: The person named registered 12 animals for the 2011 Suckler Welfare Scheme. When initially applying to participate in the Scheme in 2008, applicants undertook to carry out and notify my Department of relevant measures carried out in respect of their animals for the full 5 year duration of this Scheme. In August 2011, applicants were informed of the requirement to notify details of such...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: An application under the Agri-Environment Options Scheme from the person named was received in my Department on 22 November 2012. The initial processing of the applications has been completed and acknowledgement letters have issued to all applicants. The detailed actions listed in each application are currently being recorded and all applications will be ranked and selected according to the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Labelling (27 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: In 2011 the European Union passed a new Council Regulation on Food Information for the Consumers (FIC), Regulation 1169/2011, which has updated the requirements for consumer information and labelling in a number of areas including; country of origin or place of provenance including the origin labelling for meats other than beef, voluntary labelling of all foods and the mandatory labelling of...