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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (6 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 99. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if participants on community employment schemes can remain on these schemes until they are sixty six years of age in view of the raising of the State pension age to 66 since 1 January 2014, with the abolition of the State pension transition; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6067/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Eligibility Overclaims (6 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 167. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an appeal made by a person (details supplied) against a cut of €1043.88 in their payments due to the issue of eligible hectares will be heard; if an oral hearing is planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6064/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (6 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 168. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers who have had their eligible hectares reduced in reviews of eligible hectares will have their total entitlements adjusted to match their eligible hectares by reducing the number of entitlements and increasing the value of each entitlement for the purpose of the BNS and Greening payment 2015-2020; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Direct Payment Scheme Eligibility (6 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 169. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers who have no entitlements at present and who have had livestock since 2009 and have returned a disadvantaged area application in each year since, will automatically be entitled to entitlements for the period 2015 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6069/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driving Test Centres (6 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason there is no heavy goods vehicle driving test centre in Galway; the reason the people resident in County Galway have to go to Athlone, Sligo or Limerick for such a test; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that it takes more than two hours to drive to these centres from parts of Connemara; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Industry Issues (11 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 85. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken to deal with the low price of young bulls for slaughter at present; the further steps he has taken to deal with the price differential between the price of beef in the factories here and in Britain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6498/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Industry Issues (11 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 85. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken to deal with the low price of young bulls for slaughter at present; the further steps he has taken to deal with the price differential between the price of beef in the factories here and in Britain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6498/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Industry Issues (11 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Minister is aware, there is a major crisis in the beef industry, particularly as it relates to bull beef. Young bulls are either unsaleable, cannot be got into the factories or are being sold way below their economic cost and bull beef is a very important component of our farming industry. What has the Minister been doing in the past two months to deal with this crisis?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Industry Issues (11 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for his very comprehensive reply. However, throughout the long and involved reply, he did not mention any action taken by him. He seems happy to have a laissez-faire attitude towards the market, that everything is okay so let us not interfere in any way. Is the Minister satisfied there is no difficulty in putting live cattle on boats in Dublin and transporting them by...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Industry Issues (11 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister mentioned the word "cartel" and referred to some people's belief that there was one.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Industry Issues (11 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is he saying definitively that is he satisfied that there is no manipulation or cartel operating in the beef industry? What discussions has the Minister had with his British and Northern counterparts on the labelling issue? It is extraordinary how fond the British are getting of British beef, in that its price keeps increasing compared with beef's price in Ireland. What advice would the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events Response (11 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 88. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the steps he has taken to assist farmers and fishermen who have suffered serious loss during the recent inclement weather; the assistance sought from the EU to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6499/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events Response (11 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know the Minister came to Galway on a surprise visit on Friday. I hope he saw all the damage that has been caused to farmers' lands all over the place. They have lost land and other land has been destroyed from a fodder point of view. Fences and walls have been knocked. Furthermore, slips and piers have been damaged and some fishermen have lost boats. Many fishermen have lost lobster...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events Response (11 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Inspections over the next three or four weeks are not an issue because they are covered by force majeure rules, regardless of whether the Minister agrees with that view. With regard to the 2014 applications for single farm payments, however, if land is lost to the sea or cannot be foraged because it is covered in boulders, will farmers have to adjust the acreage of their land accordingly?...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events Response (11 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I asked a number of specific questions that come under the Minister's remit. I did not ask about bridges and so on because they do not come under his remit. I asked questions about single farm payment applications. Will they have to be adjusted for May this year to account for loss of land or land that is no longer a forageable area because the strand or boulders are now on the land? In...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events Response (11 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They are not in private ownership.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events Response (11 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What about stone walls?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events Response (11 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, the Minister referred to a period of two weeks.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events Response (11 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister referred to fencing being restored in two weeks. It would not be possible to restore stone walls in the same amount of time. Massive walls, which took years to build, have been completed destroyed.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events Response (11 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is the Minister stating that those who cannot restore such walls in that time will be penalised?