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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (27 Mar 2014)

Simon Coveney: Under 2013 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme, eligible applicants’ holdings were required to have satisfied minimum stocking density of 0.15 livestock units for a retention period of seven consecutive months, in addition to maintaining an annual average of 0.15 livestock units calculated over the twelve months of the scheme year. The application of the person named has only recently been...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Simon Coveney: I am happy to take the opportunity to defend the Minister for Justice and Equality against the latest political attacks coming from the parties opposite. For some time, Deputies have been attempting to use a series of difficult-to-manage circumstances in our justice system to claim a political scalp instead of focusing on the reform and decisions needed to provide solutions for the future....

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Simon Coveney: -----or, in the absence of clear facts, promote assumptions of dishonesty or something worse. I sit next to Deputy Shatter in Cabinet and I have got to know him well in recent years. Any fair-minded person who has followed his three years in government knows him to be reforming, intelligent, extremely hard working, at times combative and, most importantly, willing to take on significant...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Simon Coveney: We have agreed to the appointment of a new Garda Commissioner by open competition, which is a major reform, and to the establishment of a new independent policing authority, which had been agreed in 2006 in the Mullingar accord between Fine Gael and Labour and which is now more necessary than ever. While all of these decisions are being made, Fianna Fáil's response is not to focus on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (1 Apr 2014)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 456 and 471 together. I understand that South Tipperary County Council received a report over Saint Patrick's weekend of a horse carcase in a field within its jurisdiction and the Council's Environmental Section dealt with the matter and had the carcase removed to a local knackery for disposal. On the general matter of protecting animal welfare, the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Activities (1 Apr 2014)

Simon Coveney: I am advised that Coillte is empowered to develop and build wind farms having regard to the company's objectives as set out in Section 12 of the Forestry Act 1988 and the objectives in the company's memorandum of association. The Forestry Act 1988 provided for the establishment of Coillte Teoranta as a company to be registered under the Companies Acts. Section 12 of the Forestry Act 1988...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Activities (1 Apr 2014)

Simon Coveney: The Forestry Act 1988 provided for the establishment of Coillte Teoranta as a company to be registered under the Companies Acts. Section 12 of the Forestry Act 1988 provided inter alia that the principal objects of the company shall be stated in its memorandum of association to be: a)To carry on the business of forestry and related activities on a commercial basis and in accordance with...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (1 Apr 2014)

Simon Coveney: The person named commenced REPS 4 in February 2008 and received payments for the first five years of their contract. REPS 4 is a measure under the current 2007-13 Rural Development Programme and is subject to EU Regulations which require detailed administrative checks on all applications to be completed before any payments can issue. This process has now been completed for 2013 payments...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (1 Apr 2014)

Simon Coveney: Applicants under the 2013 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme were required, inter alia, to have achieved a minimum stocking density of 0.3 livestock units per forage hectare in 2011, or have successfully applied for derogation. As the person named was unsuccessful in their derogation application, no payment is due to the applicant under the 2013 Scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Technology Adoption Programme Payments (1 Apr 2014)

Simon Coveney: In order to be eligible for payment under the 2013 Beef Technology Adoption Programme applicants were required to attend six meetings (applicants were permitted to attend one approved national event as one of their six meetings). In addition to attending the required number of meeting/events all applicants were also required to select and successfully complete two tasks from a menu of ten. ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (1 Apr 2014)

Simon Coveney: In order to comply with EU requirements, the application was one of a number which was selected for a Cross Compliance inspection in 2010. This inspection was initiated on the 15 December 2010. During the course of this inspection breaches were recorded in relation to four separate Statutory Management Requirements (SMR). Breaches relating to Nitrates were recorded, specifically the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (1 Apr 2014)

Simon Coveney: Under the 2013 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme, eligible applicants' holdings were required to have satisfied minimum stocking density of 0.15 livestock units for a retention period of seven consecutive months, in addition to maintaining an annual average of 0.15 livestock units calculated over the twelve months of the scheme year. As the holding of the person named did not satisfy these minimum...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grant Payments (1 Apr 2014)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 464 and 465 together. The total of all payments made to farmers in County Mayo under the various schemes from January 2011 to the end of February 2014 and the amount of funding provided for projects in County Mayo in the years 2011, 2012 and 2013 can be found in the following tables. The amount of funding for projects in 2014 is not yet available. County...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (1 Apr 2014)

Simon Coveney: The person named was approved for participation in the Agri-Environment Options Scheme with effect from the 1st December 2010 and full payment has issued in respect of the 2010, 2011 and 2012 Scheme years. Under the EU Regulations governing the Scheme, a comprehensive administrative check, including cross-checks with the Land Parcel Identification System, must be completed before any...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Grants (1 Apr 2014)

Simon Coveney: Payment of the outstanding monies has been arranged and the applicant can expect payment in the week beginning March 31st 2014.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Industry Issues (1 Apr 2014)

Simon Coveney: Data extracted from my Department's equine database shows that number of equines born in the years 2011, 2012 and 2013 that were subsequently stamped or marked out of the food chain is 4,199, 2,858 and 647 respectively. The specific reason for the exclusion of an animal from the food chain is not recorded on the database. A breakdown by Passport Issuing Organisation is contained in the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tax Exemptions (1 Apr 2014)

Simon Coveney: This issue arises where entire holdings have been leased out with entitlements for a period which includes 2013. In order to preserve the value of these entitlements for the new direct payment scheme, lessors need to transfer them permanently before 15 May 2014 to a person who is deemed to be an 'active farmer'. Officials from my Department have had discussions with the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Properties (1 Apr 2014)

Simon Coveney: My Department owns and operates, under Statute, six Fishery Harbour Centres at Killybegs, Ros an Mhíl, Dingle, Castletownbere, Dunmore East and Howth. Properties located in the Fishery Harbour Centres are, when appropriate, offered for tenancy under lease by means of open competitive tendering process following public procurement guidelines. My Department has been in correspondence on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (1 Apr 2014)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 472 to 474, inclusive, together. Under 2014 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme, eligible applicants' holdings are required to have met (a) a minimum stocking density of 0.3 livestock units per hectare in 2011 (equivalent to 2 ewes per hectare), or have been granted derogation and (b) achieve a minimum stocking density in 2014 of 0.15 livestock units for a minimum...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (1 Apr 2014)

Simon Coveney: The person named has received the full payment entitlement for his REPS4 contract for 2013 at this stage. A 75% payment in the amount of €5,366.78 was paid on the 5th December 2013 and the remaining 25% payment in the amount of €1,788.92 was paid on 19th December 2013.