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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No; it would be useful if the Minister made the statement. We can be well gone in two hours, given the lateness of the hour and the fact that there is much happening this week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for the outline. I am not saying this as a personal criticism of him as the same thing was happening when we were in government. However, when all of this talk about output targets came in, I remember being very critical of it at the time because I always believed that the output targets would be just another layer of bureaucracy, another box-ticking exercise we would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not think that is the concern that has been voiced. I have no doubt that if established dairy farmers grow their businesses and do not have to borrow inordinate amounts of money, they will be able to take the vicissitudes and volatility that are inevitably involved in any world trade commodity. The big worry people have, as we should know from what has happened in recent years, is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish to clarify the point I was making. We are on one landmass but we have two different standards. There are farmers who own land on both sides of the Border and who move the cattle over and back. Given all of that, the nature of animal health and welfare and that diseases can travel easily on land, it seems to me a totally unsatisfactory situation if any part of the island, under...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I refer to the whole ball of wax in regard to direct payments - the single payment, area of natural constraint, ANC, and everything else. If we look at all of the grants, there was a 10% drop between 2011 and 2013 and last year there was a drop of €1.769 billion. The total will be down again this year and next. Part of the reason for this is that the single payment has decreased...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have a technical question. Last week I asked a question about the increase in employment in the area of agriculture, fishing and forestry, but I received a reply giving me a figure for the increase in employment in the agri-industry, food and fisheries. The area of agriculture, fishing and forestry is a separate CSO heading, but the reply included the figure for the agri-industry. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: More farmers, fishermen and forestry workers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I did not say that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister mentioned aquaculture licence approval in Galway Bay. I asked a written parliamentary question, which I thought was reasonable, and got a very vague answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I asked about the timeframe in which we can expect a decision on the application by Bord Iascaigh Mhara in Galway Bay. I am not asking the Minister to pre-empt a decision; I am just asking what the timeframe is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will we have a decision this side of Christmas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There are three levels of payment on DAS at the moment: less severely handicapped or less favoured areas, more severely handicapped or severely disadvantaged areas, and mountain areas. When one looks at the productivity of the land in the three areas, there is not much difference between good land and less favoured areas, and the difference between that and the more disadvantaged band is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That creates a very interesting precedent. Some islands are very fertile and some are not so fertile. Some of those in the lake near me are well farmed, while some are in the sea. The Minister has just taken them as a group, viewing them as disadvantaged, with feed, etc., having to be brought in by barges or by boat. I welcome this, but the reality is that in many cases the mountain...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is missing the point. He has accepted one payment for islands because generally they are a very disadvantaged group. We know, based on livestock figures from his Department, that on average the output of livestock in mountain areas is half that of anywhere else in the country. Therefore one would expect that people farming designated mountain land would receive twice the DAS...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Parcel Identification System (24 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 83. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total financial penalty imposed from 2009 to 2013 on a person (details supplied) in County Galway; if the penalties in question have been recouped from any other payments due; if so, the details of this recoupment; the amount of penalties still owed by the applicant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36044/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The witnesses will be glad to hear that all of the Galway Deputies aread idemon the importance of Galway Harbour. We do not seem to be facing the difficulties experienced in Dún Laoghaire. I become worried when the policies being developed are based on the status quo. It happened during our time in government and is happening again, in that policies are not drafted based on an...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Milk Agency (25 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 107. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will be nominating a person representing the large multiple supermarkets to the board of the National Milk Agency, at the inception of the new term for members of this board, which is due for renewal in December 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36287/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Parcel Identification System (30 Sep 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on a land parcel identification system appeal submitted by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; if so, the outcome of this appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36584/14]