Results 9,681-9,700 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Minister is aware, no one objects to the change in the criteria as they apply to farmers from outside disadvantaged areas who are in receipt of payments under the disadvantaged areas payment scheme and vice versa. Having submitted a freedom of information request to the Department, I understand the savings achieved in that element of the scheme are tiny.
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The major saving will be achieved from the change in stocking rates. How many letters issued to farmers on stocking density and how many of them responded by applying for a derogation? When will a decision be made on the preliminary round of applications for derogations? Many farmers need the money provided under the scheme. As a result of the Minister's actions, they will have to wait an...
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Is it the case that those who will receive a cheque this week were not informed of that in writing?
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: They will receive the payment without being informed that their appeal was successful.
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: On the basis of how many letters?
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: How many letters were issued indicating to farmers that they did not meet the stocking density requirements?
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I believe it is 10,000.
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: My point is that the vast majority of the people in question were not in the categories ascribed to them.
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: This Government takes the money off the poorest on the most marginal land. The Minister's policy is to hit the guys on the hill and marginal land. He does not care about them because they just have poor land and in his numbers they do not stack up in production.
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: From all the Minister's actions.
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Of the 4,000 decisions made, how many were in favour and how many were against derogation? If farmers appeal to the independent appeals committee, is it likely they will have to wait until 2013 for payment before the committee has finished its hearings?
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine wrote to 10,000 farmers asking them to state whether they were in the agri-environment options scheme, AEOS, or the rural environmental protection scheme, REPs. The Department which actually runs these schemes could not match its own files as to which farmers were in AEOS and REPs.
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is holding up the hill farmers and those on marginal lands. He has created a huge bureaucracy which has little purpose and that will save him for very little moneys. The Department then asked farmers if their lands were designated as a special area of conservation, SAC, special protection area, SPA, or a natural heritage area, NHA. However, the Department has maps of every...
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a fault.
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That is it – the farmers can wait.
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Mair, a chapaill, agus gheobhaidh tú féar. Ar chuala tú é sin riamh?
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Yet the Department knows that already.
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not creating an issue because I am the one they come to when they have difficulties with the forms, particularly the older farmers. What they cannot understand is why the Department had to write to them when it already had the information. The Department knows from its area aid maps, which are satellite pictures and not maps in the conventional sense, exactly to the inch the eligible...
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a minimum saving. We agree on that.
- Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to sell off the Coillte Teo forest crop; the progress made regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40408/12]