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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Grassland and Single Farm Payments: Irish Farmers Association (25 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome the delegates. I listened with interest to what Mr. Lynskey had to say. The Minister gave some indication that he would look at this again. What was proposed was a monumental mistake. Does Mr. Lynskey have figures for the number of hill sheep as opposed to the number of lowland sheep - is it like comparing chalk and cheese? The vast majority of genuine hill sheep farmers would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Grassland and Single Farm Payments: Irish Farmers Association (25 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They would be able to give the figures in question to the association. They know the people on the mountain land. There are three classifications: severely disadvantaged areas, less favoured areas and mountain areas. I think we can take it that virtually all the blackface sheep are on the mountains.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Grassland and Single Farm Payments: Irish Farmers Association (25 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I would like the witnesses to clarify a technical point. We know that the farmer gets the entire Pillar I payment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Grassland and Single Farm Payments: Irish Farmers Association (25 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As I see it, he has three options. The option that was chosen up to now was crazy. The second option is to subsume the payment in the manner that has been proposed. This would make it necessary to find another €18 million in Pillar II. I believe there is a significant built-in underspend in Pillar 2. The third option is to move the money from Pillar 1 to Pillar 2 so that it can be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Grassland and Single Farm Payments: Irish Farmers Association (25 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Unspent funds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Grassland and Single Farm Payments: Irish Farmers Association (25 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I mentioned hill sheep versus lowland sheep because they are basically two different industries. They are separate. I have a number of questions. Did the Minister give any coherent reason as to why he will not move the money from Pillar 1 to Pillar 2? There is no point in the Minister saying he will not do it, he must give a reason for not doing it. Did he give any coherent reason as to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Grassland and Single Farm Payments: Irish Farmers Association (25 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Did he give any reason?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Grassland and Single Farm Payments: Irish Farmers Association (25 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: With no disrespect, did he give the witness a reason?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Grassland and Single Farm Payments: Irish Farmers Association (25 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is that legal under the regulation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef and Livestock Sector: Discussion (25 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We have been given a great deal of information this afternoon. The bottom line is that there is a significant number of farmers with bulls they cannot sell or can only sell at a significant loss. If I understand correctly, the Bord Bia representatives are saying that the British market wants steer beef and the continental market will take the bull beef and, moreover, that the price on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef and Livestock Sector: Discussion (25 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can I say-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef and Livestock Sector: Discussion (25 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We could spend another month discussing this matter. We are going nowhere. Ultimately, while we are talking, farmers' businesses are going down the tubes. There are people who invested a great deal and whose farms are now haemorrhaging money. I wish to focus on a dichotomy which I perceive to exist. There has been a great deal of discussion with regard to a grass-based system. Does the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef and Livestock Sector: Discussion (25 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Stena Line?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef and Livestock Sector: Discussion (25 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: All sorts of theories are put forward in respect of this matter. One is to the effect that a great deal of dead meat is transported out of the State on ships which cross the Irish Sea and that those who export it are very important businesspeople who have much influence over the shipping companies. Is Mr. Gernon in a position to provide a rational explanation as to why it seems to be so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef and Livestock Sector: Discussion (25 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is Polish beef being imported this year?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Data (26 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the increase in employment in the agriculture sector in the past year; the sectors of agriculture in which this increase in employment took place; the increase or decrease in employment in each NUTS 2 region; the reason for this increase in employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13991/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Data (26 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We have continually heard Government spokespersons talk about an increase of 60,000 in employment in the past year. To achieve this, one would have needed an increase in direct employment in agriculture and fisheries of nearly 30,000. Can the Minister tell me where this employment was created and the regions in which it was created? What type of employment are we talking about?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Data (26 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister might clarify whether the term "agriculture and fisheries" means agriculture and fisheries and not the wider agrifood sector.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Data (26 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Therefore, obfuscating the growth in the agrifood sector does not fool me. Is the Minister really trying to tell me that anybody believes the BMW region outperformed the southern and eastern region in employment growth by two to one? Is he really telling me that anybody believes the south east was the best-performing region in terms of employment creation in this State, with an increase in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Data (26 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When one reads the report, one can see it says there was an increase, which was the figure quoted by the Minister, of 26,800 in employment in agriculture and fisheries. Extraordinarily, however, there was no increase in income tax revenue or the number of farmers claiming the single farm payment. Are those concerned all farm labourers or deckhands? Let us get real: the Minister and I know...