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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Management of Upland Habitats in County Wicklow: Discussion with Wicklow Uplands Council (18 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry; I was at another meeting and could not attend earlier. There is a great deal of sense in the various points the delegates have raised. I would like to address my colleagues and the delegates on the single farm payment issue. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has produced figures for me based on productivity, excluding tillage farmers. What they show is that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to date in the Common Agricultural Policy negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29488/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is the Minister confident there will be agreement on the four regulations?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will a minimum payment on the single payment form part of the agreement? Will the Minister be able to achieve an option of a reference year of either 2012 or 2013 - in other words an historical reference year rather any future one?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Before I ask my second supplementary question, I welcome and congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Tom Hayes. I know his commitment to farming and I am sure he will do an outstanding job in the new role he has been given. Would the Minister not agree that his proposals on internal convergence and greening do not reflect productivity, if productivity of livestock farms is measured by...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Would the Minister not agree that the relativities he is trying to protect have no relationship to productivity?

Other Questions: Equine Industry Issues (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What was the figure for last year?

Other Questions: Equine Industry Issues (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for the reply. He has outlined the problem very well. He has not given much indication in regard to solutions. I wonder what the Minister intends to do to deal with this problem because we have a real problem. I agree with him that we must be sure about standards but has he any proposals, for example, to introduce a scrappage scheme through which money would be made...

Other Questions: Equine Industry Issues (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome the indication from the Minister that he will come into the committee. The Chairman is sitting behind him and I am sure he will be amenable to that proposal. We look forward to that debate. When the Minister comes into the committee there is one issue that deserves serious consideration, and it is an EU issue. Why is it that the standards that apply within the European Union...

Other Questions: Equine Industry Issues (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a human health issue.

Other Questions: EU Regulations (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Let us hope it is the right decision.

Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Contrary to what the Minister stated here, I am on the record of the House, back at the beginning of these negotiations, in saying that any change had to take place over time and I was shocked and surprised at the Minister trying to infer that I ever stated anything else. Does the Minister of State believe that the single payment in the long term should relate to the amount of land one has,...

Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We should keep going on this question. It is a good question.

Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: May I ask another question?

Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is nobody here except ourselves.

Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is nobody else here.

Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They are my questions.

Other Questions: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Eligibility (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Considering the expenditure on the agri-environment options scheme, AEOS, and the rural environment protection scheme, REPS, one can see that the expenditure for 2010 - the last full year we were in Government - was €321 million, and it fell to €275 million in 2011, €253 million in 2012 and an estimated €200 million this year. Based on the Minister of State's...

Other Questions: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Eligibility (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister of State confirm that in 2011 there was an underspend of €200 million in the Estimate of the Department?

Other Questions: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Eligibility (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will explain. In its first year, the Government underspent by €200 million. If it had made the AEOS payments in 2011, there would have been a knock-on effect in every other year. The previous Government is irrelevant to the process, as this Government had the money but gave it back to the Exchequer. Even if the Government allowed the remaining 3,000 applicants into the scheme,...