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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Marine Tourism (15 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: The applications received from Mayo County Council for funding under the 2013 Marine Leisure & Marine Tourism Capital Infrastructure Development Programme were as follows: 2013 Application for funding from Mayo County Council Location Project Works 100% Project Cost Killala Harbour Reconstruction of Harbour Walls and Safety Works €240,000 Westport New marine tourism...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Is it Fianna Fáil policy to have a reduction for everyone?

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Fianna Fáil disposed of the national lottery fund. It put it into the Exchequer.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Does the Deputy know how many medical cards are in the State?

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: How many?

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: An extra 200,000 cards have been issued in the past two years.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: No.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Nobody on this side of the House is pretending that decisions that were made in yesterday's budget will not have a negative impact on people. This is the seventh difficult budget in five years and some of the decisions taken will have an effect on income and put some people under more pressure. I attended the meetings and we spent hours going through the options, trying to limit the pain...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: What about the past 12 months?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Since 1923, the purchase prices of lands taken over by the former Irish Land Commission (ILC) were payable in State-guaranteed Land Bonds. Most of the owners whose land was acquired were compensated in these Land Bonds yielding a fixed rate of return. They were redeemable at their nominal or original value, either by periodic random selection from what was known as the Land Bond Fund, or...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: I am committed to the development of a strong and sustainable suckler cow sector and am fully aware of the issues facing it at present. To assist in its development, I announced a Beef Genomics Scheme (BGS) yesterday specifically aimed at suckler farmers, that will help to accelerate the kind of genetic improvement that will drive efficiency and increase profitability at farm level. This...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Farmers who satisfy certain conditions are eligible to apply to have their entitlements consolidated. The reduction in the number of hectares must have arisen because of one or more of the following circumstances: - The acquisition of land by a public authority under a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) for non-agriculture. - Lands leased in/ rented in during all or part of the reference...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Payment in respect of the 2013 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme issued directly to the nominated bank account of the person named on 10 October 2013, payments under the Scheme having commenced, on target, on 25 September 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Programme (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Since this Government took office my Department has published three Bills: - Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill (28 July 2011) - Animal Health and Welfare Bill (25 April 2012) - Forestry Bill (24 April 2013) No Regulatory Impact Statements have been carried out on Bills in my Department, all were carried out prior to this Government taking office.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bovine Disease Controls (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: My Department introduced a compensation scheme for herdowners, who have 2 or more eligible beef breed calves, in suckler herds born on or after 1 January 2013. To qualify, the herdowner must comply with the conditions of the BVD Eradication Programme, the statutory basis for which is set out in S.I. 532 of 2012. In particular, the calves must have had an initial positive or inconclusive...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: An application under the Single Farm Payment/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from person named on 9 May 2013. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases on-farm inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The application of the person named was selected for a remote sensing...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Payment in respect of the 2013 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme issued directly to the nominated bank account of the person named on 1 October 2013, payments under the Scheme having commenced, on target, on 25 September 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Payment has not yet issued to the person named under the 2013 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme as the holding has not yet satisfied the Scheme minimum stocking density requirements. As soon as the holding concerned is confirmed as having met these requirements, the case will be further processed with a view to payment at the earliest possible date thereafter.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Payment under the 2013 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme issued directly to the nominated bank account of the person named on 10 October 2013, payments under the Scheme having commenced, on target, on 25 September 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (17 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: The person named held a herd number jointly with his mother and they submitted applications to my Department under both the Single Payment Scheme and the Disadvantaged Scheme for 2013. The mother of the person named passed away after the submission of these applications. As part of the payment for the Disadvantaged Area Scheme is due to the estate of the deceased herd owner, testamentary...