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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Labelling (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans, if any, to improve labelling regulations so that consumers can be assured that they are purchasing what it says on the pack, and that labelling provides a detailed breakdown of the species of meat in meat products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9679/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Quality Assurance Scheme (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to extend the food quality assurance scheme beyond the farm gate to include the food processing and packaging industries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9680/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Imports (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value and range of meat products, including horse meat, imported each year for the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9683/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Safety Authority Investigations (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, following a request from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland to his Department on the 21 of December 2012 to obtain samples of raw ingredients from two meat processing plants implicated in the adulteration of food products with horse meat, this matter was brought to his attention and to the attention of the Department of Health who...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grocery Industry (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work being carried out for his Department to establish the proportion of the margin on the sale of meat and dairy products that are going to the retailer, the processor and the producer respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9705/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made in relation to a derogation appeal lodged by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if not, when the decision is likely to be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9730/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the 2012 disadvantaged area scheme will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; the reason for the delay in issuing this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9963/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plant Inspections (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will restore the inspection levels at meat processing plants to 2010 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10416/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cavan will be paid their funding under the animal welfare scheme farm discussion group for 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10421/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Authority Investigations (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which he has first made aware of the adulteration of processed food products with horse meat; the action he took on foot of this notification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9681/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Authority Investigations (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which his Department was first made aware of the possible adulteration of processed food products with horse meat; the action taken on foot of this notification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9682/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Authority Investigations (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the Food Safety Authority of Ireland first became aware of the adulteration of food products with horse meat; the reason he was not the lead Minister dealing with this issue as responsibility for both food safety and the FSAI rests with his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9684/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Authority Investigations (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health as the Minister with responsibility for food safety, if he is satisfied with the integrity of the ingredients of Irish processed black and white puddings and sausages and that no adulteration of these products is taking place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9685/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the free dental services available to persons with medical cards; the waiting list for these services; if persons who lose fillings are entitled to have them replaced under this service; the delay in providing this treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9948/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) with UFA and IFA (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome Mr. Bertie Wall and Mr. Seán Guerin to the committee. We had a very interesting discussion with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine on this subject last week. Mr. Wall has listed many things that must not be done. I agree with him. I think all members of the committee would agree that if a farmer has destocked and has to restock the only way to do that is to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) with UFA and IFA (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome the delegation from the IFA, in particular its president, Mr. John Bryan, as well as Mr. Gerry Gunning, Mr. Tom Fadian and Mr. Flor McCarthy. They had a significant advantage over the committee, even though we are a committee of elected representatives, in that from what they have said, they were involved in the negotiations for a year. We became aware of the plans just before the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) with UFA and IFA (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a fair hike. The guys with the tractors on the lowlands would think it was very hard work. The answer to the problem is to pay decently for GAEC in the single payment. I do not believe there will be a significant REP scheme the next time around because with greening in the single payment, it will be very hard to justify it. I know the way Europe deals with this. Last Thursday...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) with UFA and IFA (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Did the figure of €15,000 include REPS payments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) with UFA and IFA (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One can easily work it out. The average hill farm is 30 hectares and if farmers are receiving €100 per hectare-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) with UFA and IFA (26 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The figure is correct but it does not give average farm size. What it proves is that there is a bigger distribution of farm size in the mountain areas, in other words, farms are much smaller and the average size is smaller.