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Carlow-Kilkenny By-election: Issue of Writ (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Deering: Was Deputy Martin accompanied by Deputy John McGuinness?

Carlow-Kilkenny By-election: Issue of Writ (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Deering: Did he play on the team?

Carlow-Kilkenny By-election: Issue of Writ (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Deering: He has only recently become a cheerleader for rural areas.

Carlow-Kilkenny By-election: Issue of Writ (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Deering: Deputy Martin is suffering from amnesia.

Carlow-Kilkenny By-election: Issue of Writ (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Deering: The message is wrong.

Carlow-Kilkenny By-election: Issue of Writ (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Deering: Did Deputy John McGuinness accompany Deputy Martin?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Milk Quota Applications (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Deering: 69. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny did not receive an allocation from the milk quota national reserve. [16862/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Deering: 146. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount of unspent sports capital allocation on a county basis since 2012. [16861/15]

Order of Business (30 Apr 2015)

Pat Deering: I ask the Minister to update the House on the Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014, which was one of the most important pieces of legislation introduced in this House. We have been awaiting regulations under the legislation for quite some time. The Bill regulates the relationship between producers and retailers.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry Regulation (30 Apr 2015)

Pat Deering: 199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to introducing a heavy goods vehicle levy for foreign trucks entering the State, similar to the £10 sterling per day Irish hauliers have to pay when entering the United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland; his views that this is unfair in view of the fact it only operates one way; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Development (6 May 2015)

Pat Deering: 198. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress made with the identification of the nine advance sites-factories in the different regions, since the announcement some time ago, with particular reference to the County Carlow area; if the vacant Braun site in the town of Carlow will be considered for future use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17895/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (6 May 2015)

Pat Deering: 491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a special needs assistant (details supplied) in County Carlow, who was made redundant in 2012, will not be considered for future positions despite being fully qualified. [17607/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Data (6 May 2015)

Pat Deering: 598. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown, by county, of the number of clubs and organisations that have applied for the Sport Capital Grant in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17605/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Data (6 May 2015)

Pat Deering: 599. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the moneys that have remained undrawn from sport capital grants, as of 1 April 2015, by county basis. [17606/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Applications (12 May 2015)

Pat Deering: 226. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will have a result in respect of a one-parent family payment that is currently under review. [18151/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Pat Deering: I welcome and congratulate Mr. O'Driscoll and wish him the best of luck in the remainder of his career. I will start with the simplification of the CAP. I completely agree with Deputy Ó Cuív in his analysis of the situation. Simplification, in my view, means simplifying everything and making it less bureaucratic but this has not happened. It has become even more bureaucratic over...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Pat Deering: The timescale for the appeals seems long. If one wants to submit an appeal, one has 14 days to lodge documentation, but is it the case that one may not hear anything for six months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Pat Deering: I accept that. I suppose the point that would irritate many farmers is, for example, that the Department gives a tight timescale to submit the application and documentation and if these are five minutes late, it is bye-bye.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Pat Deering: Going back to one of the issues spoken about a while back regarding the super-levy situation, I accept Mr. O'Driscoll's point that there was not support among the 28 states for our position at the time. How did we fare compared to the other 28? In the overall scheme of things, was the EU under or over quota? How many of the 28 states were under or over the quota?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Pat Deering: Does the EU as a whole have a quota or is it broken down on an individual basis? If there is an overall quota, was the EU over or under quota?