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Interim Report on Equine DNA-Mislabelling of Processed Meat: Statements (14 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will it be done directly or indirectly?

Interim Report on Equine DNA-Mislabelling of Processed Meat: Statements (14 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will horses be registered directly, with breeding societies having nothing to do with it?

Interim Report on Equine DNA-Mislabelling of Processed Meat: Statements (14 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister has repeated my worry that societies will act as agents. There should be no agent involved. The Minister should take the leap and have a central registration system. If, with the agreement of the applicant, the Minister wants to pass on the information to the breeding societies for breeding purposes, that is a much better way of doing it. It is easy to get defensive when one...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Passports (14 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans, if any, to enforce the transfer of ownership regulations in relation to horse traceability, in order that horse ownership changes are recorded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13449/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghlacadh leis an Aire as ucht teacht anseo um trathnóna agus an cheist seo a thógáil mar tá a fhios agam go raibh sé gnóthach le dhá lá anuas le Comhdháil na n-Airí thall san Eoraip. I thank the Minister for coming into the House because he has been busy for the past few days. First, I wish to register my...

Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am addressing the issues.

Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That we should get a sugar industry?

Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is. We know that. The next issue is clarification of the decision about a national capping of the maximum amount of payment to any single farmer. Do I take it that, basically, the only option left as far as the Council is concerned is the capping à la the Commission only on a voluntary basis? If that is the situation, it is very retrograde. Furthermore, I am curious to know...

Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have an extra minute for interruptions. Is the greening optional on an individual basis or on a national basis? Obviously, it is very much in the interests of the large farmers with the very high payments. Will the Minister also confirm the situation with stacking? Will people who are able to stack payments, in other words they did not have the land the last time, be able to re-stack...

Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will be brief as I understand the Acting Chairman is operating under time constraints. On the redistributive or top-up payment, is there an upper limit on the amount of money that can be allocated towards this payment? In other words, what percentage of the total pool can be allocated to a top-up payment on the first 30 ha. or 32 ha. as in Ireland's case? While there is not a major...

Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What is the limit?

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I compliment the Technical Group for tabling this motion. I do not believe we can discuss disability issues too frequently in the Dáil. There are hard choices to be made when money is scarce. The idea that we should throw endless money at a problem is a fallacy. However, there are things we could tackle and things we could do better. I believe the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programme (20 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expand the BreastCheck programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13866/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Working Conditions (20 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health his plans for improving the conditions of non-consultant hospital doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13849/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Expenditure (20 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the audited accounts for 2011 of the Irish Greyhound Board have not yet been laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas; if this has been caused by queries from the Comptroller and Auditor General; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14233/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Remit (20 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any complaints were made to his Department since March 2011 in relation to corporate governance issues in the Irish Greyhound Board; if any concerns were raised with his Department in relation to the enforcement of regulations by the Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14234/13]

Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Sub-Committee on Fisheries: Aquaculture and Tourism: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Mr. Beamish said that in one case there was a 1% difference in the number that returned. That looks very small. However, if 5% returned in one case and 6% in the other case - because Mr. Beamish said that 95%, give or take, died at sea - that is a 20% difference in the number that returned, which is huge. Could Mr. Beamish confirm whether the 1% was on the 95% versus the 94%? Percentages...

Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Sub-Committee on Fisheries: Aquaculture and Tourism: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It does not give the figures.

Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Sub-Committee on Fisheries: Aquaculture and Tourism: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Dr. Beamish cannot clarify the figure of 1%.

Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Sub-Committee on Fisheries: Aquaculture and Tourism: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry; I was not being discourteous in not being here, as I was speaking in a Topical Issue debate on agriculture in the Dáil. There are too many things happening in one day, but that is life. I take it that what we are talking about here is the potential for aquaculture to create jobs in coastal communities.