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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: Is that €8 million?

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: Is that €8 million out of €1.2 billion?

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: The single farm payment amounts to €8 million out of the €2 billion total. Some people in Brussels must be awful bored because, like a lot of things that people get excited about, this is peanut money in the greater scheme of things. This issue has caused a lot of personal grief to an awful lot of people, and has led to an awful lot of worry for older people, over a whole heap...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of two class teacher, three teacher, four teacher and five teacher, excluding learning support and resource teachers but including teaching principals, schools that have lost teachers in the school years commencing September 2012 and 2013; the number due to lose teachers in September 2014; the name, address and roll number of each...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad iad na beartais sa Straitéis Fiche Bliain don Ghaeilge a bhaineann lena Roinn atá curtha i bhfeidhm go dtí seo, agus na beartais a bhfuil sé i gceist iad a chur i bhfeidhm; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [8906/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 582. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the 2013 single payment and disadvantaged areas schemes will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9228/14]

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Before we start, one of my amendments, No. 6, has been ruled out of order. I was looking for something we should have got at the beginning, namely a regulatory impact analysis. I tried to deal with that issue by providing for a commencement order and stating that a regulatory impact analysis would be done before commencement of the Act. I do not know how it is a charge on the Exchequer,...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How is it so?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How is it in conflict with the Bill to have a regulatory impact analysis?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There would be nothing to stop the Minister doing one before the Act would be commenced.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Second Stage is only the principle of the Bill. There is nothing of principle in this. It is only a practical matter that we would have a regulatory impact analysis before we commence the Act.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can I ask the general question of the Minister of State? Is it intended, even at this late stage, to give us the regulatory impact analysis and why was it not done? It is amazing. The Bill, A to Z, is all about regulation.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister of State can comment on it.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That does not stop the Minister of State giving a commitment here to do a regulatory impact analysis.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I accept that and I am asking the general question before we start because we are at a considerable disadvantage here in dealing with this Bill. Since regulation is what the Bill, from A to Z, is all about and we do not have the one vital tool we need, which is the regulatory impact of all of this before we start, I do not know whether there is any point in taking part in this debate. That...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Minister of State clarify for us that the idea of a regulatory impact assessment is to enable us, and no doubt the Minister, assess the probable impact of his initial proposals and whether they add unduly to the regulatory burden? We have no independent assessment of what this Bill is likely to do. There has been considerable concern raised with us about the regulatory impact of...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister of State is undertaking that there are regulations being brought in-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, line 4, after "means a" to insert "suitably competent".The Bill states that an authorised officer means a person authorised under this Act to be an authorised officer for the purpose of the relevant statutory provisions. I propose that it read: "an authorised officer means a suitably competent person" authorised under this Act to be an authorised officer...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What the Minister of State seems to be saying is that it must be a suitable and competent person but that he will not put that in the Bill. I would have expected that a civil engineer required for civil engineering purposes was a suitably competent person. What I am trying to ensure is that people who are not suitably competent cannot be given the jobs. For example, if there was a civil...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does the Minister of State not think a civil engineer for roads is suitably competent?