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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (4 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 416. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists employed by the HSE in County Tipperary; if all positions are filled and being actively worked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50741/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Grants (4 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 517. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers who are participating in State funded forestry schemes can receive grant and premium aid supports when clear felling or replanting trees due to damage caused by wind and adverse weather; his plans to extend such supports for such scenarios; if there is an obligation on forestry scheme participants to replant forested...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I was listening to the Minister's speech and not looking at the document. Where is the allocation for veterinarian inspections in meat factories? Is it under food controls?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: Does that deal with agri-environmental schemes?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: That would not have anything to do with the meat factories as such.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I am only trying to find out when I should ask because I will ask it anyway. I might as well get on with it and ask it now. There was a serious article in the agriculture media this week about trim in factories and this is something that farmers have felt aggrieved about for a number of years. It now seems concrete evidence is available that what farmers have suspected for a long time is...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: All that were found to have excessive trim were 20 carcasses out of 56,000.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: What I am going to say may not be received too well but I will say it in any event. In the context of the fodder scheme, I make no apologies for putting forward proposals regarding the fodder crisis. In mid-July, we were facing a famine in the winter. Thankfully, the weather intervened and we got an extremely good back end of the year. However, schemes proposed by us, such as the...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: Not really.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I stated that the scheme-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: With reference to the hen harrier payments-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: Chairman?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (5 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the decision to refuse an application under the emergency works grant 2018 by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51031/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Staff (5 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a position in the ETB is advertised requiring a higher diploma if a person who has a degree qualification in the relevant area has the right to apply for the position on the basis of equivalency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51143/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (5 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a school (details supplied) to the emergency works scheme for funding will be granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51145/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (5 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 287. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the playschool application by a school (details supplied) will be reviewed for support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51175/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Milk Supply (6 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 3. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the latest developments regarding SMP intervention at EU level; if he will provide data for sales; the plans the European Commission has for SMP intervention tendering in 2019; and the position of the Government in that regard. [51345/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Milk Supply (6 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I ask the Minister the status of the latest developments regarding skimmed milk powder intervention at EU level, if he will provide data for sales, the plans the European Commission has for skimmed milk powder intervention tendering in 2019 and the position of the Government in that regard.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Milk Supply (6 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: It might be effective, but, unfortunately, it is farmers who have paid for it. I am very concerned that the Government has given another blank cheque to the European Commission to remove the floor price for skimmed milk powder in 2019. Only last April the Minister told me, "...my Department also engaged with the Commission on recent measures to limit further piling up of SMP in 2018 without...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Milk Supply (6 Dec 2018)

Jackie Cahill: The Minister talks about what the position would be if I had gotten my way. The floor price of skimmed milk powder was agreed to to protect dairy farmers' incomes. If I had my way, the floor price would be kept in place and I make no apology for saying this. It was agreed in the last round of CAP proposals that there would be a floor price in the purchase of 109,000 tonnes of skimmed milk...