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- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We can.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister published his Pillar 2 proposals in a very vague draft format and it is very hard to get information from him on spending. It was published at the beginning of the year. How many public meetings which farmers could attend has the Minister held since it was published? Will the Minister give a further idea of the public consultation he will have on the total package? Until now,...
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: They are not.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Is the Minister telling me that the figure is fixed for 80% of farmers in commonages and that 80% of farmers will have to join the scheme on the same day?
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is in the Minister's document.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That is not true; I have been engaging in it.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That is an untruth.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I engaged from the very beginning, from the time I was appointed Fianna Fáil spokesperson on agriculture. I have since gone around the country. I have always said I cannot judge it until I receive the full package.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister knows the answer, but he tried to trick people, with the old spider and the fly trick, into accepting his Pillar 1 proposal. He then came up with this rubbish Pillar 2 proposal.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I am very agitated.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is mistreating the vast majority of farmers.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is absolutely mistreating them. He is trying to keep a very unfair system in place.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister will not engage in debate and has not been attending public meetings because he is afraid that he might be challenged. He does not have the answers to why his system is totally unfair.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I know. It took us three months to get the Minister to a public meeting and I understand only 60 people turned up to hear him.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: There were four meetings in the whole process.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is now avoiding the issue.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Of course.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I have not.
- Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I will keep at it.
- Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes Payments (8 May 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: 10. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce an interim compensation scheme for farmers who were compulsorily de-stocked in the Twelve Bens-Maam Turks complex in Connemara and who have either left the REP scheme or have had their payments ceased by the National Parks and Wildlife Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20342/14]