Results 1,201-1,220 of 18,593 for speaker:Michael Creed
- Farm Retirement and Installation Aid Schemes. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: Those young people whose parents may have been transferring the farm had legitimate expectation, to use legal terminology. What about those cases where a young person enrols this year at agricultural college to do a green certificate or the case of a farmer with a lease signed but waiting for the Revenue to stamp it? Notwithstanding the Minister's budget day announcement of the suspension...
- Farm Retirement and Installation Aid Schemes. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: The Minister is avoiding the issue and the question. It is not about the applications already in but the people who have legitimate expectations. I am asking about those people, who through no fault of their own, were waiting for leases to be stamped by Revenue or are completing a green certificate at agricultural college and believed they could avail of the scheme.
- Farm Retirement and Installation Aid Schemes. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: The Minister is avoiding the issue.
- Farm Retirement and Installation Aid Schemes. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: It will probably be more relevant.
- Farm Retirement and Installation Aid Schemes. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: With all due respect, it was not very relevant. It was cold comfort to people who were hoping to avail of the schemes.
- Farm Retirement and Installation Aid Schemes. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: There will be nobody availing of it without the installation aid.
- Industrial Disputes. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the nature of an ongoing industrial dispute relating to his Department (details supplied); if this dispute will have an impact on the prompt delivery of REP scheme payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37774/08]
- Industrial Disputes. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: I appreciate that an issue as complex as industrial relations will not be resolved on the floor of the House, although I do hope it can be resolved promptly. I seek an assurance from the Minister of State that REPS 4 applicants who applied before 15 May and are now caught in the crossfire will not have their payments delayed unduly. On a related matter, which probably goes to the heart of...
- Industrial Disputes. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: It is related to the dispute because this issue is at the heart of it.
- Industrial Disputes. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: I am alarmed by the Minister's response, which indicated that at this late stage two thirds of REPS 4 applicants have yet to be processed and that this will delay all REPS 4 payments. The Minister needs to recognise the urgency of the situation and to assist in every way possible in bringing about a resolution. Farmers should not be used as a bargaining chip between the trade unions which...
- Industrial Disputes. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: Will the Minister come back to me with the detail on it?
- Agriculture Sector. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on whether the future of the agricultural sector is under threat in some areas of the country, particularly those designated as areas of disadvantage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37775/08]
- Agriculture Sector. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: In light of what has happened in this House and outside it since budget day, will the Minister accept the budget is, in effect, merely a discussion document? The Minister for Finance was able to do a U-turn on the 1% levy. The Minister for Social and Family Affairs was able to do a U-turn today on the issue of entitlement to disability benefit for 16 year olds. We have had the U-turn on...
- Agriculture Sector. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: They are all doing U-turns.
- Agriculture Sector. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: The Minister was not there.
- Agriculture Sector. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: Is the Minister prepared to reconsider this issue?
- Agriculture Sector. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: Look at the figures.
- Agriculture Sector. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: Does the Minister have enough for next year?
- Agriculture Sector. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: We will see. Are you saying you will not be coming back with a Supplementary Estimate?
- Agriculture Sector. (30 Oct 2008)
Michael Creed: As a result you got up off your backside and introduced a Supplementary Estimate.