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Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It was in response to that Deputy Catherine Murphy asked about the scope and the Minister of State said the changes were technical. Deputy Coffey, should read the full report. I read it into the Official Report this morning. When she was asked to clarify her initial statement she was told-----

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is a bit like Lanigan's Ball. Phelan steps in and steps out, Kelly steps in and steps out, Coffey steps in and steps out. I never saw a Bill that involved so many Ministers.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It has a lot to do with the amendment. Normally the same Minister takes a Bill through from beginning to end for continuity's sake, unless there is some very grave and serious reason, which does not appear to be the case today because I saw the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, in the House. Only in extreme situations would one ask another...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What is going on here is absolutely shameful. The nature of Report Stage means we can make a long first contribution but we are limited in not being able to make a third or fourth contribution and so cannot tease things out in the way we should as parliamentarians. The Minister's amendments, and the proposed amendments to the amendments, are quite interesting. I have listened to the...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I like it when he intervenes as it adds a bit of spice.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is obvious that when he intervenes, he knows he is losing. Irish Water is a water and sewerage facility. Is that correct, Minister? The amendment creates a facility every year to transfer up to €540 million from the local government fund to Irish Water. The Deputies rightly say this particular utility will not pay for itself and that it needs an Exchequer subsidy of €540...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is the problem about doing this on Report Stage. If it happened on Committee Stage, we could keep coming over and back and drill down to what is happening. The Minister of State confirmed what I thought was happening. The Government introduced the local property tax, which does not provide for any extra service. It is just matched by a reduction in Exchequer funding to local...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We just want to get to the bottom of this.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Until we get to the bottom of this and until the Minister of State gives us clear answers, we will just have to repeat and repeat. As the Minister of State knows, I am not the spokesperson on this subject and, therefore, I am not up to date with the labyrinthine financial arrangements as well as I would be if I were. Do I understand correctly that €540 million is being taken out of...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: However, it does make this a little more complex and more opaque. Can the Minister of State explain the financial transactions that take place in a simple way that we can all understand? It is always said that we should follow the money trail. Will the Minister of State explain to us the money trail? My colleagues have been lamenting, as I did yesterday, the fact that on Second Stage...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Since a transfer of money to the Exchequer from the local government fund is only provided for this year, will there be a transfer next year and, if there is, will it require specific legislation to facilitate it? We have to know what is going on with the money because all the legislation provides for is a one-year transfer of money from the local government fund to the Exchequer, a...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Government ordered the business of the Dáil; not us.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licences (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 21. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that no new fin-fish farming licences will be granted until the new national plan for sustainable aquaculture development is adopted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26056/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 28. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the basis on which he hopes to pay farmers within this calendar year under the beef data and genomics scheme 2015 when payments under the 2014 scheme are only commencing now and are not scheduled to be completed until autumn 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26052/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 30. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to change the terms and conditions associated with the commonage management plans under the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme in view of the low number of plans prepared to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26055/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme Funding (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 34. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans that the Government will provide co-funding to match the funds being made available by the European Investment Bank to Irish agriculture, rural development and forestry; the proposed amount of this co-funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26053/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Milk Prices (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 39. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the dairy volatility pricing models he has examined at either Department or European Union level; the steps being proposed to protect farmers from price volatility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26054/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 111. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding available for spending in 2015 and 2016, respectively, under the Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas rural innovation and development fund; the projects and schemes being funded out of this fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26568/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Applications (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 120. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine based on applications under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme examined to date, the number of applicants who will be approved for payments of up to €1,000, from €1,000 to €2,000, and so on, in intervals of €1,000 up to €7,000, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Applications (1 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 121. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that, on average, the number of applicants applying under the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme in respect of commonages is considerably less than two per commonage, even allowing for the fact that some farmers have shares in more than one commonage and that he recently stated that 4,000 scheme...