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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Data (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 376. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have indicated actions under the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme, by county, under Tier 1,Tier 2, and Tier 3; the number of these that have commonage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18679/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 377. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine following the change in land eligibility rules, the estimated additional land that is likely to be applied for, as forage or as arable area, under the basic payment scheme in 2015; the estimated difference the new rules on eligibility of Natura land will make. [18680/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 378. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will be made to farmers under the agri-environment options scheme, whose payments have been held up due to an ongoing investigation of a supplier of trees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18681/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 379. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if fees have been negotiated with the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation, and with planners, in relation to the cost of compliance with the beef genomics scheme; the amount of these fees; the likely cost to farmers of compliance costs with this scheme, including the cost of processing the genetic information; the production of a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 419. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the body parts of a human body, washed up on shore at Hook Head in County Wexford, have been identified; the reason letters and other contacts from a person (details supplied) in County Cork have not been replied to by her Department, in view of the fact the family provided DNA samples; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18703/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 432. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to continue with the school completion programme; the funding that is being provided in 2015 as compared to 2014; when the local management committees will be able to inform groups implementing the programme whether the programme will operate for the forthcoming school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18702/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Meetings (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 604. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the details of meetings held between himself or any of the Ministers of State in his Department with a company (details supplied); the outcome of these meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18684/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 618. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has had meetings with a company (details supplied); the outcome of these meetings; the likely impact of this company's proposed operations on the roll out of broadband nationally, under the national broadband scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18683/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 639. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the instruction he has provided to Iarnród Éireann to protect the land it holds along disused railway lines, and in particular if he has issued an instruction to preserve the integrity of the disused railway lines from Athenry in County Galway to Colooney in County Sligo, from Rathkeale in County Limerick to Tralee in County...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My first question concerns climate, agriculture and the targets for reducing the carbon footprint. From negotiations to date, how much is the Irish cattle herd at risk because of climate change proposals? Is the Council of agriculture Ministers working to ensure that we continue to produce beef in the countries that can do it most carbon-efficiently and that there is a rebalancing of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish to deal with the LPIS. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine writes to the farmer setting out that he or she has over-claimed for a parcel of land, stating the range of penalties that apply depending on the extent of the over-claim. In other words, the farmer gets a lot of paper but very little information. When the farmer gets the letter, unless he or she can pull...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If I may ask one other question, the Department has a habit of posting letters to farmers about over-payments where it is looking for a refund of money. Most of those letters say the money must be paid back in seven days. The reality to those of us who know is that farmers will always do a deal with the Department that the money is recouped out of future grants. However, there are some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Was there a European Court ruling on NHAs that said we had to enforce them and that it was not totally at our discretion? That is where the whole issue arose. The witnesses might remember the issue of not cutting the NHA bogs. The Government could not just have dropped that because Europe said we could not. Could I ask-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have two questions. In regard to the Burren-type schemes, my understanding is that this time around, under the principle that one cannot get paid twice for the same thing, a farmer cannot get payments under GLAS for the hen harrier scheme and a Burren-type scheme because it is considered to be paying the person twice for the same thing. I am sure Deputy McNamara can correct me if I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not an expert on the carbon navigator. The Chairman might explain it. I do not doubt that a global figure for what the carbon navigator will give us under this scheme has been given. I do not know how it is calculated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry to be going back to mechanical things all the time, but I want to go back to what Mr. O'Driscoll said about locally led agri-environment schemes and the GLAS interface. If I were a farmer with a lot of designated land and if that was the easy way of getting my €7,000 without having to have low-input pastures and meadows, the walls and God knows what else, measures for hen...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (13 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 121. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when outstanding payments will issue under the 2014 single payment, the disadvantaged areas scheme and the rural environment protection scheme, in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; if there are any appeals lodged in this person's name, with either his Department or the Agriculture Appeals Office, awaiting a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Data (14 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made in the roll-out of the green low carbon agri-environment scheme; the number of completed applications likely to be received by the closing date of 22 May 2015; the likely commencement date for the scheme in 2015; the projected spending on the scheme by his Department this year; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Data (14 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Minister will admit, as far as he is concerned, GLAS is a flagship scheme. People are anxious to find out how many completed applications have been submitted for the scheme. Now that the Minister has announced GLAS for 2016, farmers are curious to learn the date from which they will be able to participate. What is the effect of the change in the rule to require applicants to obtain...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Data (14 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The more information he provides the better.