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Access to Credit: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister of State got it in one but he is pre-empting me. I said to the secretary who answered the telephone that my name was Éamon Ó Cuív and I asked to speak to Mr. Michael Collins. I started to explain to him that I was a co-op manager in Connemara but he interrupted me and asked me if I was Emer's son. I said I was and he told me to tell my mother he was asking for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Payments (14 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have received letters regarding over-claims under the single farm payment scheme and other schemes for 2013 due to the EU ordered review of all claims for the past five years; the number of cases examined to date; the number of cases still to be examined; the amount of money being sought back from farmers to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Payments (14 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Many farmers are receiving letters from the Minister looking for payments back over five years. Many are wondering whether those letters will drop in the post some day. Some of them are for hectarages of 0.01, 0.02 or 0.03 hectares. This is a matter of great concern and the penalties in some cases are disproportionate. I mentioned a case to the Minister which involved an equivalent...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Payments (14 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister said that no farmer had received a letter detailing a fine. I have two comments to make. I can produce-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Payments (14 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a disallowance or a penalty or whatever one wants to call it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Payments (14 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know I have only one minute but I am entitled to ask the question without interruption. The second thing is that when farmers get the letters at the moment, there is a general sheet outlining the penalty regime, but they are not told specifically what the penalty is in their case. Can the Minister tell me why this is the case? Why is it that at the end of October, despite the guff about...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Payments (14 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Perhaps the Minister will explain something. There is a disallowance due to errors that were made, minor errors in many cases, in the last four or five years. Some of these are as small as 0.01%, 0.02% and 0.03%, but when small farms are involved there is a disproportionate penalty.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Payments (14 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Why are the farmers bearing the brunt of this mess? Second, can the Minister explain why there is €100 million in the coffers of the Department which should be in farmers' pockets to allow them to pay the people to whom they owe money?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Payments (14 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The underspend is at the end of the month of September. The Minister is holding money back.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Payments (14 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not. I am being factual.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (14 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 4. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding his consideration of the Common Agricultural Policy programme for Ireland 2014-20; the level of co-funding being proposed for Pillar 2; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48461/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (14 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Many people are anxious about the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP. As the Minister knows, most of the decisions will be made nationally. There is already significant concern about the 18% cut in Pillar 2 payments in real terms, taking inflation into account, but concern is also growing that the Government will not match European money on a 50:50 basis with Exchequer funding. Will the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (14 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have the figures for the previous programme in front of me. Effectively, it was just under €2.5 billion from Europe and just over €2.3 billion from the Exchequer, so it was a 53:47 split. Can the Minister confirm he will match that in percentage terms and stop trying to obfuscate? People are concerned that, under the environmental programme in particular, the payment could...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (14 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What? Can the Minister repeat that?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (14 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is the Minister saying the incentive is the same regardless of whether one is paying €150 or €400?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (14 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister did not say that the first time. What is the percentage?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (14 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What is the percentage?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (14 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I take it that the Minister will not give any more information on pillar 2 funding. He is getting a lot of trouble from his colleague, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. Can the Minister confirm that the second payment under the single farm payment this year will face a 5% cut due to amendments in the MFF? Perhaps he can tell farmers whether that is correct.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (14 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is there a 5% cut?

Other Questions: Milk Quota Cessation (14 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 8. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any analysis or research has been carried out on the effect the ending of milk quotas will have on other sectors of agriculture such as suckler cow production; if the short and long term consequences of this decision on the market for dairy products has been researched; the results of the research in question on both issues; and...