Results 1,181-1,200 of 1,310 for speaker:Shane McEntee
- Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Shane McEntee: Which the Deputy's party caused.
- Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Shane McEntee: The Deputy's party caused it-----
- Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Shane McEntee: -----along with his colleagues.
- Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Shane McEntee: The Deputy should never forget that his party caused the problem. It sat on it.
- Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Shane McEntee: The Deputy would not know a stag if he saw one.
- Milk Quota (18 Apr 2012)
Shane McEntee: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue at the right time of the year, the beginning of the quota year. We know that if it were not for the price of fattened cows and the prices secured for the export of cows to England that young farmers in particular would have been badly affected. They were encouraged by dairies and others in the industry to enter the industry and then they were...
- Milk Quota (18 Apr 2012)
Shane McEntee: We have an opportunity in 2012 to exert pressure. Nobody would like there to be a euro of a penalty in a super levy. I do not have the figures to hand but I hope it will not be as high as â¬20 billion. I agree with the Deputy that it should not happen but I can tell him that the Government is doing its best. We have an opportunity to raise this issue and I ask that the Deputy's MEPs and...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Shane McEntee: If we had the money we would not be doing this.
- Private Members' Business. Motorist Emergency Relief Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Shane McEntee: I wish to share time with Deputies Ãine Collins, John O'Mahony, Pat Breen, Kevin Humphreys and Tom Barry.
- Private Members' Business. Motorist Emergency Relief Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Shane McEntee: The cost of diesel and petrol has become a major issue, irrespective of whether one is working in the transport business, farming or agribusiness, or whether one is a tour operator. The first thing people who have been given the opportunity to go back to work must think about is whether they have â¬80 or â¬100 to put fuel in the car. A person in the tourism industry with a contract with...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme (8 May 2012)
Shane McEntee: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue and if there is any question I cannot answer, I will come back to him. The changes to the rules governing the 2012 disadvantaged areas scheme have recently been published by my Department. I can also confirm that booklets outlining the terms and conditions of the 2012 scheme are being issued to all farmers with DAS-designated land. However, as...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme (8 May 2012)
Shane McEntee: I have little to say in response. The Minister and I are committed to encouraging and paying farmers to farm. The stocking rate will make a difference to the amount of stock that farmers can carry and to the environment itself. That there are few animals in some of the areas to which the Deputy referred has caused problems, for example, forestry and gorse fires. The proposed changes will...
- Genetically Modified Organisms (10 May 2012)
Shane McEntee: I have not had any meetings or discussions with any company wishing to engage in the cultivation or growing of GM crops in Ireland. I appreciate this question may have been prompted by the proposal by Teagasc to trial a genetically modified blight-resistant potato on its own land in Carlow. Teagasc submitted an application to the Environmental Protection Agency seeking authorisation to carry...
- Genetically Modified Organisms (10 May 2012)
Shane McEntee: It is to be made at the end of this month. I attended a meeting with the Minister, Deputy Hogan, and the people concerned and this is a trial in which Teagasc is participating. It will not in any way put at risk Ireland's image. This trial is part of a European Union research project and people should read into what is involved. I have also asked a similar question in this regard....
- Genetically Modified Organisms (10 May 2012)
Shane McEntee: I do not suggest the Deputy is doing so but-----
- Genetically Modified Organisms (10 May 2012)
Shane McEntee: I am sure it will take the length of time it takes a potato plant to grow. That is as straight an answer as I can give the Deputy. I also made my position quite clear when I attended the aforementioned meeting. This will not be carried out in an area where it will affect any other plant.
- Genetically Modified Organisms (10 May 2012)
Shane McEntee: This can be guaranteed. The Environmental Protection Agency will make the decision on the day.
- Animal Identification Scheme (10 May 2012)
Shane McEntee: The Deputy should be aware I already have issued a press statement dealing comprehensively with the various issues surrounding sheep tagging and the implementation of electronic identification, EID, in sheep under the national sheep identification system, NSIS. In this statement, I have reminded farmers the practice of re-tagging slaughter lambs on a second or subsequent holding is not...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme (10 May 2012)
Shane McEntee: It will be recalled that on foot of commitments given in the 2012 budget significant savings needed to be found in my Department's expenditure for 2012, part of which it was decided should come from the funding assigned to the disadvantaged areas scheme, with the budgeted expenditure under the 2012 scheme being reduced from â¬220 million to â¬190 million. Rather than simply apply an across...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme (10 May 2012)
Shane McEntee: I will communicate with the Deputy on the dates relating to his first two questions. All of us involved in agriculture want to encourage farmers to increase production. The Minister and I are on the same wavelength on this in that we do not want to be paying people to do nothing. The increase in the live stock units will be of great assistance to people in forestry, in particular gorse...