Results 14,581-14,600 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rural Development Plan (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I have made that case since. The Minister can check my documentation. I am just reminding the Minister.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rural Development Plan (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I asked a simple question about when these genomic schemes would open. The Minister did not even try to address it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rural Development Plan (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I asked specifically him about the Attorney General and he did not even try to address it. He likes to waffle on-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rural Development Plan (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I also asked about TAMS, organic and knowledge transfer, and animal welfare schemes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: They have a problem with the houses as well.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rural Development Plan (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: 151. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the arrangements in place to ensure that all farmers under 40 years of age benefit from the provisions in respect of young farmers under the rural development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12955/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rural Development Plan (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: When the Minister was president of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council, for some extraordinary reason he agreed to a mandatory scheme for young farmers that discriminated and excluded many farmers under 40 years of age from the benefits of the scheme. Apparently, the way he agreed to the scheme being written did not allow country discretion to allow these farmers to benefit from the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rural Development Plan (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not know why the Minister sold our farmers out. Apparently he had some desire to force a young farmers' scheme on countries which perhaps wanted one. That is what he did. Will the Minister clarify that a young farmer, as defined in the regulation, gets three advantages, as he said, namely, access to the national reserve, a top-up in the BPS and greening and a 60% grant under TAMS?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rural Development Plan (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Will he confirm that he has done something for the very small cohort of farmers who entered the sector in 2008 and 2009 in respect of access to the national reserve? Will he confirm that the top-up he is giving those farmers is in no way equivalent to the top-up that is being given to qualifying young farmers who are excluded from the top-up from TAMS? Does the Minister intend to re-examine...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rural Development Plan (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister confirm that he will not do anything for farmers who entered the sector before 2008 and that he will do nothing more for the farmers to whom he is giving the top-up from the national reserve? There have been long delays in issuing herd numbers and difficulties for farmers in tying up leases, land and so on. Does the Minister intend to extend the closing date for...
- Other Questions: GLAS Applications (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: 156. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have applied to date to join the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme; the closing date for applications to be accepted in 2015; his plans to extend this closing date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12715/15]
- Other Questions: GLAS Applications (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: There is significant concern that the target set by the Minister of getting 30,000 farmers to join the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme this year will be impossible to achieve. I note in today's Irish Independentthat the Minister has extended the closing date already as he has realised his targets were ridiculous and the 30 April deadline was not achievable for 30,000 applications....
- Other Questions: GLAS Applications (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister confirm that the 9,119 refers to the number who have initiated a GLAS application but in no way reflects the number who have a completed application? One has to register at the beginning of the process. Will the Minister tell me how many completed applications there are for GLAS? Last week, the Minister said there were 477 accredited GLAS planners. As there is much...
- Other Questions: GLAS Applications (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I would not have been surprised that there were 10,000 registrations on the system. The Minister studiously avoided telling me how many of those are completed applications or how many have just been initiated. I would have expected a big flush in the beginning because of people having done the preliminary work. Could the Minister send me the figure regarding the number of farmers who have...
- Other Questions: GLAS Applications (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: If there are fewer than 30,000, the Minister will not need to prioritise-----
- Other Questions: GLAS Applications (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: How much of the €1.4 billion relates to GLAS?
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: A Cheann Comhairle, in view of the misinformation given by the Taoiseach last week, could you advise me of how a Deputy can ensure factually incorrect information that is given by a member of the Government on the record of the House is corrected on the record of the House?
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a major problem with this Government and the Taoiseach giving out factually incorrect information.
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: When previous Governments realised that factually incorrect information had been placed on the record, they corrected it. Will you, a Cheann Comhairle, meet me in your office to advise me how we can ensure-----
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is very difficult to hear you, a Cheann Comhairle.