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- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: If the Minister does read, he does not take the information in.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: He certainly never pays any heed to what is on paper.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That is typical of the arrogance of this Government.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: No; it was the Minister. If it is on his conscience, he should pay up.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The second thing the Government has managed to do is to be involved in bringing about, for the first time ever, a decrease in the money available under the CAP. Will the Minister explain how what his party, in opposition, described as a purely Irish financial crisis has suddenly become a European one? Does he agree that the level of Leader funding that will be available on the next occasion...
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Can we take it that the amount available will be at least 11% lower than previously? Could the reduction be as high as 20%? Will the Minister confirm that when inflation is taken into account, the MFF allocation for rural development will actually be 18% lower than was the case previously?
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: There will be 18% less money available.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is much less. It will be 18% less.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: There will be 18% less money available.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Inflation must be taken into account.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What about inflation?
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It was taken into account.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The reduction is almost 20%. What about inflation?
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister would do as well to compare it with the position that obtained in 1931. The amount involved would appear to be very good if he did so.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is not doing so, because money does not have the same value.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Obviously, the Minister does not understand inflation-----
- Other Questions: Leader Programmes (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Is the Minister telling me there were seven applications received before October 2012?
- Other Questions: Leader Programmes (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Is the Minister not surprised that so many queries are arising in respect of projects above the level of €150,000? Total responsibility for approving projects under the level of €150,000 rests with the local action groups which seem to be able to do so with competence. Why does the Minister think so many problems arise with larger projects examined using the exact same...
- Other Questions: Leader Programmes (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Minister is aware, if we take two projects, one costing €140,000 and the other costing €160,000, a LAG can approve the former project without requiring Department approval, while the latter will require Department approval, even though there is not a great deal of difference in the costs involved. In one case the Department trusts the LAG to approve it but in the other...
- Other Questions: Leader Programmes (12 Mar 2013)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I know, but we were turning them out fast; that is the difference.