Results 14,461-14,480 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of the Ombudsman Staff (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 102. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to delays in the Ombudsman’s office processing complaints, due to lack of adequate staffing; his plans to assign further staff to this office; his views that the office responsible for investigating, among other things, delays in other public bodies, should not itself be subject to excessive...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Irish Land Commission (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 117. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that the Land Commission vesting orders for land and attached seaweed rights are held in Portlaoise, County Laois; the arrangements in place to allow the public access to these orders; if consideration was provided to transferring these documents to the Property Registration Authority; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Grants (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 118. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied), who had an approved forestry grant, is now subject to a retrospective penalty of over €4,000; if the person has the right to appeal the decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9726/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Grants (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 119. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons who were in receipt of forestry grants that had retrospective penalties imposed on them in the past two years; the total amount of penalties imposed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9727/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 120. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of approved agricultural planners in the country, approved to prepare green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme plans; the arrangements in place to ensure that the charges are reasonable; his plans to introducing a mandatory bonding scheme, where planners would have to insure themselves against claims by farmers for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 121. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to reserve places for commonage farmers in round two and three of the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme, in view of the difficulty that will be faced by commonage farmers in making applications by the due date of 15 May 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9729/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 122. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is precluded by European Union regulation from making payments under the green low-carbon agri-envivornmental scheme for five years to commonage farmers who join the scheme, after the first person in the commonage joins it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9730/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Disease Controls (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 123. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a farmer (details supplied) did not receive compensation for disposing of calves which had bovine viral diarrhoea; the way the farmer would have had to dispose of the calves to be eligible for compensation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9732/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Grants (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 124. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when applications for forestry grants and premiums on special protection area protected lands, particularly hen harrier special protection areas lands, will be decided; the reason for the delay in making these decisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9735/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 125. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is an automatic top-up under the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme plus for Natura 2000, national heritage areas and commonage land; the amount of the top-up; the conditions applying to it in such cases; the maximum amount of land on which it will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9736/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 126. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the special arrangements put in place under the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme for farmers farming land designated as a special protection area in order to preserve the hen harrier; the maximum amount of hectares they can receive under the scheme or GLAS+; the maximum payments to which they will be entitled; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Technology Adoption Programme Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 127. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment will be made for the sheep technology adoption programme 2014 in respect of a farmer (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9741/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 128. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the 2014 agri-environment options scheme will be made to a farmer (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9742/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Data (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 129. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who received a single payment of less than €10,000 in 2014 who may expect to receive a single payment in excess of €10,000 in 2019, based on the recent projections issued to farmers; the numbers in receipt of a single payment in excess of €10,000 in 2014 who will be receive less than...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Offshore Islands (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 207. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the island health care committee of the Health Service Executive has not yet met members of Comhdháil Oileáin na hÉireann; the reason for the delay in holding this meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9734/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 208. To ask the Minister for Health the increase in the reported use of heroin in the Galway area in the past four years; the steps being taken to deal with this problem; the social programmes being run focusing on the cause of heroin use, particularly among the young; the increase in resources granted to the local drugs task force in the past four years; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Investigations (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 209. To ask the Minister for Health the circumstances under which an investigation was set up into a termination of pregnancy under the Protection of Health During Pregnancy Act 2013 in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth, on either 30 or 31 October 2014; the persons who were to carry out the investigation; the progress made to date with the investigation; when the report...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 210. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the finance section of the national social care division of the Health Service Executive has written to disability organisations last month imposing further cuts to their budgets; the proposed cuts broken down by organisation, providing the name and address of each organisation; the steps he will take to ensure adequate funding for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Charges (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to introduce assistance with the cost of fees for persons living in remote areas who wish to access online and accredited third level and fourth level courses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9723/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has received two applications from a school (details supplied) in County Galway for an extension and other urgent works; the present position regarding the application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9731/15]