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Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Animal Disease Controls (16 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 929. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when deer were introduced to the national park in Letterfrack, County Galway; when Lyme disease was detected in the deer herd; the steps being taken to eradicate this disease from the deer herd; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23621/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the officials for attending. To say that was a quick tour of the genomics scheme would be an understatement. There is major concern about this. The first thing we must remember is there are 73,400 herd owners in the country and we must look at the profile of these people. The booklet associated with the scheme is enough to put off many people from joining it because they will say...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Could we get that calculation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If I may correct Mr. Gleeson, what I said was that I understand ICBF will send him a pack with the equipment and all the rest of it. According to the farmer, who is not a constituent, he was told that once he got that pack, he would owe the money for it to the ICBF.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Incorrect. From the Department's own data, 80% of farmers with fewer than ten cows have said "No". Based on the data I was given yesterday, only 8,677 herd owners with fewer than ten cows have applied for the scheme. I think Mr. Gleeson will find a huge rate of attrition among those. I told all the farmers in Connemara to apply because we were hoping to have a bit of common sense about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can Mr. Gleeson repeat that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Sorry, but the answer to that is that there are lies, damned lies and statistics. Approximately 78% of herd owners have fewer than 20 cows. Does Mr. Gleeson see? I got the figures yesterday evening from Mr. Pat Preston in Mr. Gleeson's own Department. I am telling him that the herd size is tiny. Therefore, when he says 60% of applicants have fewer than 20 cows, that is inevitable. Based...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have the same data. The Department received about 28,000 applications, so it is about 60%. That is a fact. In simple terms, the situation becomes much more acute at ten and under. In case people think these are all in the hills of the west of Ireland, from Donegal to Kerry, they can forget it. These small herds are spread throughout the country. We do not have 40,000 herds in the west...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There seems to be a lot of concern on the really marginal lands in the west where many people put cows out on commonages and very poor grazing land. The Department's star rating will give one the equivalent of a lowland sheep, but when it comes to viability in the harsher conditions of parts of Leitrim, Donegal, Sligo, Mayo and Kerry, it will not suit the GAEC. Many farmers produce their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: From where?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Let us get real. Will the Department go back and look at the situation on the islands? I was talking to a farmer yesterday who was farming on an island but the island happened to be in the Shannon. He had the exact same problem so Mr. Gleeson should not think that this is just a problem in the west. In five years when the guy gets penalised, it is no good saying page 15 of the rules says...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: With regard to the calculations I have been given for the number of cattle involved, there seems to be a saving of €5 million per year already. That gives a figure of €30 million. If farmers drop out, that sum will increase, but the converse could also be true. If Mr. Gleeson is correct and the scheme is the greatest thing since the sliced pan and will make farmers massively...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the ICSA and Macra na Feirme for their presentations. I congratulate Mr. Finan on his election as president of Macra na Feirme. The presentations speak for themselves. When the Minister was negotiating the CAP, he brought in an unnecessarily restrictive definition of a young farmer. He said there was not only an age requirement but also a restriction based on when one had entered...

Topical Issue Debate: Animal Diseases (17 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for coming to the House today to take this question. We all appreciate that the worst news a Minister in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine can get is the news that some food issue has arisen. The message we can all take from this today is that it is because we have such strict regulation and procedures that an issue like this is picked up. Having...

Topical Issue Debate: Animal Diseases (17 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One of the great benefits of the situation is that it was announced by the Department as a suspected case of BSE right from the beginning and there was not a rumour machine. The information was made known. That proves the processes are in place to pick up any issue that will arise, which is a good thing. Have the results of the second test come back? I presume that will be the next...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon (17 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 129. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Irish Greyhound Board will require his permission to sell the Greyhound Stadium in Harold’s Cross in Dublin 6W; if the board has discussed this issue with him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24181/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Expenditure (17 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 250. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the Exchequer spending on broadband provision to homes and businesses by his Department in each year from 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; the number of connections achieved each year; the broadband speeds achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24179/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Seirbhísí Aeir Fóirdheonaithe (18 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 25. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a dhéanfar cinneadh ar na tairiscintí atá faighte d'aersheirbhís go hÁrainn; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [23544/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gníomhaireachtaí Rannacha (18 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 32. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad iad na scéimeanna ar fad a bhí á riaradh ag a Roinn i Márta 2011 agus atá faoi chúram Údarás na Gaeltachta anois; cad iad na scéimeanna atá an Roinn ag beartú a chur faoi chúram an Údaráis as seo go deireadh thréimhse an Rialtais seo; cén chúis...

Credit Unions: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I congratulate my colleague, Deputy Michael McGrath, on his very fine exposition of the challenges faced by the credit union movement and the need to treat it differently. If financial difficulties in the credit union movement had been the only financial difficulties facing the financial sector, we would not have had a problem. Taken together, the credit unions in difficulty could have been...