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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (4 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 377. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if land that was planted with forestry since 2008 will be eligible for consideration as eligible acres for Pillar 1 payments under the Common Agricultural Policy 2014-2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11002/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (4 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 378. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the assistance available to farmers to assist them in exterminating vermin, including mink; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11003/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Scheme (4 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 379. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to carry out a badger cull in the Annaghdown/Claregalway/Corrandulla area of Galway as a result of an outbreak of bovine TB in the general area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11004/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bull Beef Sector: Discussion (4 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the four organisations for their very informative presentations. We have a crisis, but it had a long gestation period. We should face up to this and when we try to resolve it, we should do so not only for the short term but also consider the underlying weaknesses that have caused this chaos. The first thing that struck me and on which I concentrated when I became spokesperson on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bull Beef Sector: Discussion (4 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Chairman, on a point of information, if the information is available from the Department's site to meat factories, then the Department is in breach of the data protection rules, not the meat factories. It is not unknown for the Data Protection Commissioner to make rulings that Government Departments are in breach of the Data Protection Act. The Department must focus on that issue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bull Beef Sector: Discussion (4 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Do we know-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bull Beef Sector: Discussion (4 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Do the farming organisations agree that we need an inquiry into the operation of the beef trade, both an Irish one and a North-South one agreed between the two agriculture Ministers in the two jurisdictions? In fact, that latter inquiry would be easy because Deputy Colreavy could put a word in for us with the Northern Minister. Do they agree we need an EU inquiry into the distortions of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bull Beef Sector: Discussion (4 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I apologise for not being present at the beginning of the presentation, but I looked at it before I left. Unfortunately, I had another appointment. While a great deal of information has been given, the delegates should look at the big picture. The big picture is that one group, the beef factories, keep making a comparison with EU prices, when the nearest and biggest single market for our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bull Beef Sector: Discussion (4 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Everybody except MII seems to think there is a change in the situation in regard to North-South trading of cattle. The ICMSA stated: [..]from 1 April 2014, Northern Ireland intends to class cattle imported from this State as ‘out of spec’ cattle. This is totally unacceptable, absolutely against the concept of a single market, [with which I concur] and is yet another example of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bull Beef Sector: Discussion (4 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What about milk?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme Data (5 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 36. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the payments rates applicable on the rural social scheme taking income from farming into account; the changes she has made to the method of calculation of these rates since she became Minister; the reasons for these changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10354/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme Data (5 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 38. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will increase the number of participants on the rural social scheme for 2014 to enable the scheme to undertake environmental works to rehabilitate areas damaged in recent storms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10353/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Tuarascáil an Choimisinéara Teanga 2012: Díospóireacht (5 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá go leor ceisteanna gearra agam. Ba cheart go mbeadh an tAire Stáit in ann iad a fhreagairt, ceann ar cheann, in abairt nó dhó. Céard é an méid is mó foirne a bhí ag Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga ariamh? Cén líon foirne atá san oifig anois? Cé mhéid atá i gceist a bheith ann fad is a bheidh an oifig faoi...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Tuarascáil an Choimisinéara Teanga 2012: Díospóireacht (5 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá an tAire Stáit ag caint ar dul ar ais go dtí 7.4.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Tuarascáil an Choimisinéara Teanga 2012: Díospóireacht (5 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Bhí sé tite píosa maith. Bhí sé síos chomh híseal le ceathair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Tuarascáil an Choimisinéara Teanga 2012: Díospóireacht (5 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Luaigh an tAire Stáit gur chuir sé go leor airgid ar fáil le tacú leis an nGaeilge. Níl mé ag súil go mbeidh freagra na ceiste seo aige inniu. B'fhéidir gur féidir leis a chur in iúl dúinn arís - an t-eolas a chur chugainn - go díreach cé mhéid airgid a chaitear ag tacú leis an nGaeilge. Ar an mbonn...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Tuarascáil an Choimisinéara Teanga 2012: Díospóireacht (5 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá sé éasca go maith. Má fhoilsíonn Roinn páipéar i mBéarla, mar eolas ón Roinn sa teanga sin, is féidir rialú as sin nach tacaíocht don Ghaeilge é an cháipéis ceannann céanna a fhoilsiú i nGaeilge. Ní tacaíocht teanga atá i gceist - níl ann ach foilsiú cáipéisí....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Tuarascáil an Choimisinéara Teanga 2012: Díospóireacht (5 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tuigeann an tAire Stáit nach mbeidh an rannóg fiú in ann athnuachan a dhéanamh ar na scéimeanna atá ann muna dtagann méadú ó 16 cinn in aghaidh na bliana go dtí 60 cinn in aghaidh na bliana ar líon na scéimeanna atá á ndéanamh acu.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Tuarascáil an Choimisinéara Teanga 2012: Díospóireacht (5 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Má tá sé cinn déanta laistigh de dhá mhí, is cosúil go ndéanfar 36 cinn in aghaidh na bliana, ach tá 60 cinn le hathnuachan. Tá fadhb ann, ach bogfaimid ar aghaidh. Dála an scéil, nuair a bhí mise sa Roinn, sa trí mhí deiridh bhíomar ag caint ar an teimpléad caighdeánach a luaigh an tAire Stáit....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Tuarascáil an Choimisinéara Teanga 2012: Díospóireacht (5 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Deir an tAire Stáit go bhfuil easpa acmhainní ann, ach an nglacann sé leis go bhfuil go leor den fhaillí atá dhá dhéanamh ag comhlachtaí Stáit ag cur airgid phoiblí amú, mar nach bhfuil siad ag comhlíonadh a ndualgas i leith na Gaeilge. Tabharfaidh mé sampla mar shampla. Le gairid, cuireadh go leor comharthaí suas i...