Results 12,621-12,640 of 40,897 for speaker:Simon Coveney
- 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) Simon Coveney: If there has been an inspection in the past four years.
- 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) Simon Coveney: Chairman, with respect, I do not want to go into an individual case.
- 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) Simon Coveney: We have systems, assessments and procedures that will treat everybody the same, including the person in Deputy Ó Cuív's example.
- 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) Simon Coveney: There will be force majeurein appropriate cases. We have extra resources for the appeals and the extra inspections that may be required.
- 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) Simon Coveney: Chairman, I will have to leave.
- 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) Simon Coveney: Nothing was drawn down and we do not expect anything will be drawn down this year either.
- 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) Simon Coveney: However, we are keeping the budget line. Intervention is now somewhat of a non-issue.
- 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) Simon Coveney: We must make the corrections to the maps. The objective is to get to a position at the start of 2015 for a new CAP round with accurate maps and money being drawn down on eligible land. As part of this process, which we are required to introduce by the Commission, we must assess, in terms of making our maps more accurate, whether there has been an overclaim on land which was ineligible for...
- 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) Simon Coveney: If it is minuscule why can the farmers not pay it?
- 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) Simon Coveney: There must be transparency.
- 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) Simon Coveney: Surely it is appropriate that people who own land which is not eligible who have drawn down payments on that land are those who must pay back the money they should not have drawn down in the first place rather than asking the general Exchequer.
- 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) Simon Coveney: With respect, such a commitment would have to come from the Commission.
- 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) Simon Coveney: This is a much more accurate way. It is not like we have a reassessment every year. The mapping technology has changed and allows us to be much more accurate. It happened last July. As a result of this accuracy we now know some land which was not eligible for payment drew down payments. The Commission also knows this and we must take the course of action we are taking.
- 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) Simon Coveney: One is not penalised for 0.1 ha as there is tolerance.
- 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) Simon Coveney: I am told farmers are not being penalised-----
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Tionscail na hIascaireachta (22 Jan 2014)
Simon Coveney: Tá na toilithe dobharshaothraithe i seilbh Bradán Beo Teoranta clúdaithe faoi Alt 19A(4) den Acht Iascaigh (Leasú) 1997 ina luaitear: “19A (4) A licensee who has applied for the renewal or further renewal of an aquaculture licence shall, notwithstanding the expiration of the period for which the licence was granted or renewed but subject otherwise to the terms and...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (22 Jan 2014)
Simon Coveney: The person named was approved into the Agri Environment Options Scheme 3 with effect from the 1st May 2013. Under EU regulations comprehensive administrative checks must be carried out on all applications before payment issues. These checks are underway and I expect AEOS 3 payments to commence in March, 2014. An application under the 2013 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (22 Jan 2014)
Simon Coveney: The person named commenced REPS 4 in March 2008 and received payments for the full six years of their contract. REPS 4 is a measure under the current 2007-13 Rural Development Programme and is subject to EU Regulations which require detailed administrative checks on all applications to be completed before any payments can issue. Following the administrative check an issue was discovered in...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (22 Jan 2014)
Simon Coveney: Along with all my colleagues in Government I am acutely aware of the ferocity of the recent storms combined with the exceptionally high tides which in combination have resulted in widespread damage right around the coast. I have been actively assessing the damage to the many small Local Authority piers and harbours right around the coast. I am aware of the critical importance of this local...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Parcel Identification System (22 Jan 2014)
Simon Coveney: My Department is bound, under EU Regulations, to maintain the accuracy the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS), which underpins the processing of applications under the Single Payment Scheme, the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme as well as REPS and AEOS. In this regard payment may only be made in respect of eligible land. At the start of each year, my Department issues colour maps of all...