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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (2 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a post (details supplied) in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27533/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Review (2 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 439. To ask the Minister for Health when a replacement scheme will be announced for the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant; the reason for the delay in finalising same to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27908/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (2 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 479. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 4 April 2019, his plans to introduce a three year cap on farm businesses assets in circumstances in which a family successor commits to continue to farm the asset for a period of six years (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28126/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Parliamentary Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 481. To ask the Minister for Health when a response will issue to an interim response (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28135/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (2 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 517. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason an organisation (details supplied) was not invited to be a part of the CAP consultative committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27466/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (2 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 518. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27486/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maritime Safety (2 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 544. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a project (details supplied); if funding has been ring-fenced for the project; if so, the amount; when the project will be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28124/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (2 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 607. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 258 of 27 March 2019, the status of the road project; the engagement with the local authority on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28046/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (2 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 682. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an overpayment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be reviewed in order to ascertain the reason they have been assessed with an overpayment due to a Departmental error; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28272/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health Levies (Pigs) Regulations 2019: Motion (2 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister for coming before the committee. What is the projected total amount of funding from the levy that will go to Animal Health Ireland? The Minister indicated there will be €125,000 funding from the Government alongside that, if I picked him up correctly. Will he provide us with more information on the type of work AHI will be undertaking? What, if any, work of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (3 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 44. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the criteria set down in the EU Commission implementing regulation providing temporary exceptional adjustment aid to farmers in the beef sector; when beef farmers will be able to apply to the national scheme; when payments will issue from the EU fund; and if there will be a 100% Exchequer top-up on the €50...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (3 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: I ask the Minister his views on the criteria set down in the EU Commission implementing regulation providing temporary exceptional adjustment aid to farmers in the beef sector. When will beef farmers be able to apply to the national scheme? When will payments issue from this fund? Will there be a 100% Exchequer top-up on the €50 million fund being provided by the EU Commission?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (3 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: As the Minister rightly points out, the last 18 months have been very difficult for farmers and the beef sector, particularly in light of Brexit. Incomes were down by as much as 25% last year as a result of the distortion in the market arising from Brexit. Just before the local elections the Minister and Commissioner Hogan made a big announcement and engaged in a PR drive about how funding...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (3 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: Under Article 219 of the Common Market Organisation Regulations, (EU) Regulation No 1308/2013, it is possible for the Commission to provide funding directly to address income reduction as a result of market disturbance. However, that is not the regulation under which the Minister and Commissioner Hogan have delivered this funding. The irony will not be lost on people that there are strings...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (3 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: I asked about the €50 million.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (3 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: But is the money there?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (3 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 59. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions he is taking at EU level to ensure the proposed budget cuts for the 2021-2027 CAP programme are reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28222/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (3 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: I ask the Minister to outline all the actions he is taking at EU level to ensure that the proposed cuts to the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, for the period from 2021 to 2027 are reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. It is well known that the current multi-annual financial framework, MFF, outlines an overall proposed cut of 5% over the next seven years of the CAP...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (3 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: I understand that the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark, in particular, have been resisting any increase to the CAP budget. I ask the Minister about his approach in his engagement with those countries at EU level? On the existing proposals which have been published, which involve a 4% cut, what is the view of those countries to those proposals? Are they accepting that as a baseline or are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (3 Jul 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: We cannot overestimate the importance of the CAP budget, given that it makes up 75% of average farm incomes here. For some sectors, such as the beef and sheep sectors, it makes up over 100% of net income for farmers. It is essential that there is a positive outcome in this regard. The seven-year CAP programme from 2021 to 2027 was predicated on the draft regulations and the draft proposals...