Results 12,381-12,400 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív
- Charities (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Private Members]: Second Stage (21 Jan 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister has been three years in government and it is wearing a little thin that he is trying to excuse all his delays with what we did. We brought in the Act. We enacted it in my time in the Department. The issue now is why we waited three years to have the regulator put in place and how the Minister could believe that we did not need a regulator. He was looking to see if we could...
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Common Security and Defence Policy (21 Jan 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: 532. To ask the Minister for Defence his policy in relation to common defence; the policy of co-operation in the area of military capability development at EU level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2256/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions (21 Jan 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: 565. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the recently announced green low carbon agri-environmental scheme; the expected duration of the scheme; the expected numbers per annum; and the expected spend per annum over the duration of the scheme. [2709/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (21 Jan 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: 566. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the anticipated numbers per annum who will avail of the new protein crop payment; the spend per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2710/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Eligibility (21 Jan 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: 668. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a licence from a local authority rather than a lease is acceptable for an application to comply with the terms of the Capital Sports Grant Scheme 2014; in the event that it is, the terms that would be required from such a licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2941/14]
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: I will focus on the macro rather than the micro. How can the Minister justify reductions of 17% in respect of disadvantaged areas, 30% in respect of animal health, 53% in respect of the REPS - a reduction over three years - and only 9% and 7%, respectively, in respect of the administrative budget and non-commercial State bodies? It seems that farmers are being hit, while the bureaucracy is...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: As we know from on-site inspections, photographs do not always indicate the exact position. Some of the Department's estimates have been overturned. I hope most of the others will be overturned.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: Before them. If there is a small penalty involved, most farmers in the interests of avoiding hassle might leave well enough alone. However, they do not know what the penalty will be, unless they ask someone to carry out the calculation for them. Is the Minister in a position to assure us that there will be no retrospection in what he refers to as mapping errors, particularly in view of the...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not. I am waiting for the Minister to inform me.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: Was it by 33%? One third is approximately 33%.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: One third is 33%, but we will take the Minister's figure of 30% in this regard.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister made reference to a figure of one third. When I attended school, one third was 33%.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: Therefore, the Government of which I was a member was responsible for two thirds of the cutting back and the current Administration was responsible for the remaining one third.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: We were responsible for two thirds of the cutbacks and the current Government has been responsible for the remaining one third, which has been achieved in administration costs.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: That is the first time we have been given credit since-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: Is it €400 per annum?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not saying that-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister did not answer my questions on the maps or about the information that should be farmers regarding the size of the proposed fine.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: There is not.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: It does not give the amount of the proposed fine.