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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (9 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: The person named commenced in AEOS 3 on 1 May 2013. The holding was selected for an on the spot inspection which was carried out on 29 April 2014. Payment in respect of 75% of the payment due for 2013 issued on 30 June 2014 and the balancing payment will issue shortly. Payments under the 2014 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme began issuing, on target, on 24 September. Processing of the application...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (9 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: Payments under the 2014 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme began issuing, on target, on 24 September. Processing of the application of the persons named has recently been finalised, with payment due to issue shortly, directly to the nominated bank account of the applicants.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (9 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: A review of the land parcels declared by the person named under the 2013 Single Payment Scheme revealed that a number of the land parcels declared by the person named contained ineligible features. Following an appeal from the person named, a visit by a Department official to verify the position was necessary to progress the matter. The person named was notified of the outcome of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Offences (9 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: Firstly, may I say that all matters relating to the operational enforcement of sea fisheries law are, by Statute, matters appropriate to the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA).  The SFPA is the independent law enforcement agency of the State for sea fisheries law. As Minister, I do not have responsibility in relation to the issues raised by the Deputy. Responsibility in these...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (9 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: I have considered the request from the Inver Traditional Inshore Fishermen’s Association for a Herring and Mackerel fishery ring fenced for members of the Inver Traditional Inshore Fishermen’s Association. Under management arrangements introduced in 2010 for mackerel and in 2011 for herring in the North West (Area VIaS) smaller vessels have access to these stocks on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (9 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: Eligible applicants for the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme in 2014 must have met (a) a minimum stocking density of 0.3 livestock units per hectare in 2011, or have been granted derogation and (b) 0.15 livestock units per hectare in 2014. The person named is one of a number of applicants under the 2012 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme, whose cases were impacted upon by the requirement to have achieved...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Sector Staff Data (9 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: The total number of staff in my Department currently employed on temporary contracts is three. The provision of similar information in respect of State Bodies under the aegis of my Department is a matter for the bodies themselves.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Sector Staff Data (9 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: The number of staff currently serving in my Department who have been granted contracts of indefinite duration since 2007 is nine. The contracts were granted as follows: three in 2009; five in 2010, and one in 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Sector Staff Data (9 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: The Defence Organisation includes civil servants, military personnel, and civilian employees attached to military installations. My Department has engaged two persons to act as civilian drivers to the Minister of State, and these appointments are to temporary unestablished positions in the Civil Service on a fixed term contract basis. A total of 13 civilian employees of this Department...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Sector Staff Data (9 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: I understand that the question relates to employees who received contracts of indefinite duration subsequent to holding one or more fixed-term contracts of employment. The Defence Organisation includes civil servants, military personnel and civilian employees attached to military installations. In relation to the civilian employee workforce of this Department, a relatively small number of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (14 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: Payments under the 2014 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme began issuing, on target, on 24 September. Processing of the application of the persons named has recently been finalised, with payment due to issue shortly, directly to the nominated bank account of the applicants.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (14 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: Payments under the 2014 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme began issuing, on target, on 24 September. Payment has not yet issued to the person named as, at this stage, the holding concerned has not yet satisfied the Scheme minimum stocking density requirements. Immediately the holding concerned is confirmed as having met these requirements, the case will be further processed with a view to payment...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Data (14 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: One of the main EU funded Schemes is the Single Farm Payment (SFP) under Pillar One of the Common Agricultural Policy. Since 2009, my Department has paid in excess of €6.2 billion to some 125,000 farmers under the SFP. Essentially, all of the EU funding available was drawn and paid to farmers during that period. In 2009, following the CAP Health Check agreement, provisions were...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (14 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: Payments under the 2014 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme began issuing, on target, on 24 September. Processing of the application of the person named has recently been finalised, with payment issuing directly to the nominated bank account of the person named on 8 October 2014. I can confirm that 50% advance payments under the 2014 Single Payment Scheme will commence on 16 October 2014 as is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (14 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: Processing of the 2014 Disadvantaged Areas application of the person named has recently been finalised by my Department, with payment due to issue shortly, directly to the nominated bank account of the person named.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (14 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: Payments under the 2014 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme began issuing, on target, on 24 September. Payment has not yet issued to the person named as, at this stage, the holding concerned has not yet satisfied the Scheme minimum stocking density requirements. Immediately the holding concerned is confirmed as having met these requirements, the case will be further processed with a view to payment...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (14 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted a 2014 Single Farm Payment/Disadvantaged Areas’ scheme application on 28 March 2014. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases Remote Sensing (i.e. satellite) inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The application of the person named was...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grazing Rights (14 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: It is important to point out that one of the primary provisions of the EU regulations governing payments under the Single Payment Scheme, the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme and other area-based schemes is that the area of land declared by individual applicants must not exceed the total eligible area, as defined in the Regulations. Commission Regulation (EC) No 1122/2009 (which replaced...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Íocaíochtaí Deontas (14 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: Ní raibh aon mhoill ar íocaíocht a eisiúint leis an duine ainmnithe. Tosaíodh íocaíochtaí faoi Scéim na Limistéar faoi Mhíbhuntáiste 2014 a eisiúint go náisiúnta de réir na sprice, an 24 Meán Fómhair. Eisíodh íocaíocht chuig cuntas bainc ainmnithe an duine ainmnithe an 24 Meán...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Policy (14 Oct 2014)

Simon Coveney: My Department actively participates in the climate adaptation process through the steering committee for sectoral adaptation plans, which is under the Chairmanship of the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government. A key factor in the timing and progress of sectoral adaptation planning to date was the publication, in April 2013, of an EU Strategy on adaptation. Action 1 of...