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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effects of Recent Storms on Fishing Community (13 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: While anything is welcome, the scheme is too restrictive with too many conditions and the grant aid is too small.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Drainage Schemes Status (18 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 301. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if compensation was ever paid for loss of income in the Claregalway Cregmore area, County Galway, by the Office of Public Works under the arterial drainage schemes due to flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7747/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Work Placement Programmes (18 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 378. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons employed in each local authority under the new Gateway local authority work placement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7781/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Projects (18 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 442. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he and his Northern Ireland counterpart have raised the issues of the possible preservation of the vessel the Naomh Éanna with Uisce Bealaí Éirtann; if they have the response they received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8312/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Offices (18 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 619. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form on a county basis the number of Department of Agriculture offices that have been closed or reduced in 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014 and planned; the number of staff in each office affected; the location of each office; if the premises has been sold or rented; the costs of maintaining the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Appeals (18 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 638. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on a review sought by a person (details supplied) in County Galway against an over-claim assessment by his Department, following a second ground inspection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8067/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Crisis (18 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 645. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form on a county basis the total amount of money spent on the fodder transport scheme in 2013; the number of farmers who availed of the scheme; the total amount of unspent money; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8316/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farms Data (18 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 646. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the total number of animals who died on farm in 2011, 2012 and 2013. [8317/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Crisis (18 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 647. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to deal with future fodder crisis here in view of the experience of the 2013 fodder crisis. [8318/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (19 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 116. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the distance jobseeker's allowance recipients have to be willing to travel to attend courses under job placement schemes, in order to retain their eligibility for full jobseeker's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8426/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Court of Human Rights Rulings (20 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made in relation to the wider implications of a judgment (details supplied) in the European Court of Human Rights; the number of similar cases that are pending against the Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8727/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Work Initiatives (20 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 130. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she intends changing the rule that participants on the TÚS scheme can only participate on the scheme for a period of 12 months; her views on whether there would be a benefit if participants could remain on the scheme for a further period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8723/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (20 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 131. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the method of calculation of the payment for a person in receipt of a widows pension on the TÚS, RSS and CE schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8724/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Severe Weather Events Response (20 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 154. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason no application was made to the EU Emergency Response Co-ordination Centre for assistance in establishing the scale of flooding and coastal damage caused by the storms that affected the country since December 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8726/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: European Fisheries Fund (20 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make a payment under Article 31 of the EFF to fishermen involved in mussel farming in the Killary Harbour in view of the fact that the harbour has been closed for harvesting mussels for two years and of the recent storm damage caused to equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8725/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Vehicle Height Limits (20 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 225 of 31 January 2014, in relation to the maximum height of straw and hay that can be carried on lorries, the reason he did not extend the derogation from the 31 of October last for six months or a year in order to examine the effect that the 4.65 m vehicle height restriction would have on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coastal Farm Holdings: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I understand we are dealing with both issues. I thank the delegates for attending and the clarification provided. However, what I am experiencing on the ground is slightly different from what has been presented, to which I will come shortly. There are two major issues, the first of which relates to flooding. Huge areas of land are flooded and, in many cases, this flooding could continue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coastal Farm Holdings: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome the efforts being made because last week the indications I received in the Dáil were very different. I accept that in the last week a lot of work has gone on. What Mr. Evans has outlined resolves the long-term issues for farmers. He has said if a farmer has a value of entitlement of €10,000 and had, say 50 ha and lost four hectares, the €10,000 stays and is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coastal Farm Holdings: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is very good news and I welcome it. I asked another question on the fencing requirement. There is no way farmers along the coast will have all the walls built this year. There is a regulation in the single farm.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coastal Farm Holdings: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will put it in reverse. I am a farmer-----