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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the 2012 disadvantaged area scheme, the single farm payment and the agri-environment option scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48639/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Secretary General for a comprehensive overview. There are some issues on which I can agree with him. I asked the Minister about pillar 2 today. In view of the huge uncertainty with pillar 2 a farmer will add up his payments and compare them with what he used to get. We have seen how vulnerable pillar 2 is to national changes as well as European Union changes. It is vital that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry, Deputy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I did.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Deputy should have listened to what I was saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The point I made was-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes and what I said was that I understood beet farmers and certain types of beef fatteners received a disproportionate amount in single payments because of the way the mechanism worked. For example, dairy farmers receive less because there were not as many premiums paid. I said I had asked for this information from the Department and that I would stand corrected when I received the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As party spokesperson; I am representing the party.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They do not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On the definition of "active farmer", as the Secretary General will know, a complaint made to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht regarding farmers in large parts of the west coast, and even along the south coast and in Waterford and Wicklow, was that they produced too many sheep, which was not sustainable in the long term....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Everyone would produce up to the maximum possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One of the big constraints to expansion in dairying is the issue of getting the land near the milking parlour and the need to make it easy for farmers to swap land. I am given to understand there are a number of financial, fiscal and tax initiatives around such arrangements. Is the Department getting the full co-operation of the Department of Finance to ensure a tax system is in place that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I asked the Department of Finance if some farmers had availed of it and it could not tell me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are finishing with this and not going on to the Estimates?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Fisheries Policy: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will be brief. Can the Secretary General confirm that at the beginning of the negotiations Ireland made a strong protest that the whole regime is totally inequitable as we own 18% of the fish of Europe and yet are allocated a quota of 4%? I presume he can confirm that the Department made a strong stand that we are starting from the wrong place and that he will continue to make that stand...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Fisheries Policy: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A meeting took place in Rosmuc last night. The fishermen went along thinking it would be about fishing, better equipment and better opportunities to fish, to find there was nothing about fishing. It was all about getting them out of fishing to do something else in rural development. I share the disgust of the fishermen that this is not where they want to be. Will there be a better deal to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Universal Health Insurance (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health when the White Paper on Financing Universal Health Insurance will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48933/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Positive Ageing Strategy (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the Positive Ageing Strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48948/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Relief (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who are in receipt of mortgage tax relief at present for loans taken out in or after 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49180/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Relief (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Finance the total cost of mortgage tax relief in 2012 for loans taken out in or after 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49181/12]