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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Could Mr. Britchfield confirm that Coillte has not been selling forestry as forestry? In other words, 200 hectares here or there, in the greater scheme of things, are probably in multiple sales.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I personally have no problem with that. I know that Coillte sold the odd bit of land around Cong and was very much in favour of that. It also provided land for the community centre, but Coillte is not selling forestry. There have been a lot of stories about Coillte selling significant forests as forestry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish to ask a relevant question. This is an extraordinary situation because the shareholder is either the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine or the Minister for Finance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They are the same people who give the competitors, namely, the private farmers, capital grants and forest premium to plant land. The shareholder owns Coillte but gives somebody else all of our money to plant land. Coillte has told us that this means that it is not viable for it to compete and plant land. It is the one organisation that is owned by the same people who give grants to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is a big policy issue for Government and is not an issue for Coillte Teoranta. It is an issue for the committee to examine on another day. What will happen if a higher percentage of the mature forest is owned by individual farmers? Up to now we have been able to provide an adequate amount of timber to the mills to keep them viable and prevent collapse. Will they be put in jeopardy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What about ten to 20 years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We must pay more money and keep the product that we own, as a people, out of the market of planting. I suggest we cannot really go further because it is a major policy issue. We might get the Minister before the committee in the near future to tease it out with him, because it is a fundamental policy issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a big debate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A good idea.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Could we discuss that at our private meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I agree with that. It is a sensible suggestion.

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am delighted to have an opportunity to discuss this issue, but we are in the wrong forum and doing it the wrong way. I am not saying this in an unnecessary adversarial way. However, there is something disproportionate in the way we do business in this House. Yesterday evening we spent two hours discussing the issue of the docking of dogs' tails. This is an important issue of contention...

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There may be good reasons the Government did not go for the backstop and I would be interesting in hearing them - the real reasons. However, it seems wrong that what happened was that a decision was made by the Government and after that decision was made, with a big fanfare the Taoiseach came into the House to make a five minute speech in which he stated the Government had made a decision...

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister of State has got it in one.

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It was not. The Minister of State was technically correct. There had not been a request, but the issue was being pushed from or leaked from elsewhere in Europe. One of the issues that arises from the way this has been done is that it gives rise to a concern that there are European elements to this issue. It is a concern that there are elements in back rooms elsewhere in Europe who...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (20 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 206. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a P21 will not be accepted when assessing income of an applicant for a medical card, in the situation where a person's primary income is realised from PAYE employment and all of the subsidiary income from self-employment is detailed on the P21; if he will accept that in reply to a similar Parliamentary Question - No. 1163 of 5 November 2013 - he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (21 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made by Bus Éireann in relation to the reinstatement of school transport to a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49884/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank all the representatives of ICOS, IFA, ICMSA and ICSA for their presentations. There is significant concern among committee members about this issue. What we need to do can be broken into two parts. There is the issue of the receivership of TLT international and I concur it is a pity it is not an examinership and then there is the wider policy issue for the future. I welcome Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a vote and I will not be able to return afterwards. There are two issues, with the first being the immediate issue of TLT International. Other than discuss the matter, the committee cannot take direct action.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We should do that. There is a much bigger and more important issue. If we had taken action five years ago that we should take now of considering policy, credit and markets, we would be doing some hard work. That is the best way to prevent any future TLT Internationals having an impact on farmers. It would ensure a live trade that could ensure farmers get the best price. I suggest we do...