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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Industry in Ireland: Discussion (7 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We have to look at all the possibilities because the Government has to look for sources of funding. The witnesses seemed to emphasise the question of why betting duties should go to horse racing, given that so little of the betting is actually on Irish horse racing. That is a good question and there is an argument in favour of a "hypothecation" as they call it, that is, that a particular...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Industry in Ireland: Discussion (7 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My point is that VAT is only repaid if it is taken off the final customer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Industry in Ireland: Discussion (7 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The VAT on sales always exceeds unless one is losing money-----

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Identification Schemes (8 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 93. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the checks his Department has in place to prevent produce from stolen animals entering the food chain; the checks being operated to deal with stolen livestock being exported live; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27731/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (8 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 94. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to alleviate the current lamb crisis and market price volatility; his views on competition within the lamb trading market; the steps being taken to reduce barriers to live exports; the actions he will take to encourage competition in the live exports market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27733/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Parcel Identification System (8 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 109. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made in discussions with the European Union on achieving a reduction in the fine imposed on Ireland for over-claims on the land parcel identification system; the fine the European Union imposed on Ireland; when this matter will be brought to a conclusion, given the statement by the Minister in Question No. 4 of 14 May...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (8 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 110. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the allocation under the Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas fund in 2015 to each of the following elements of the 2015 work programme: pilot scheme for the development of female rural entrepreneurs, social farming, village and town regeneration and agri-tourism projects; the definition of social farming being...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Levels (8 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 116. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on actions being taken to mitigate the significant rise in livestock theft from farms; the steps being taken to apprehend those behind these thefts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27732/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Correspondence (8 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 132. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is satisfied that no leak of information relating to correspondence regarding a person (details supplied) emanated from her Department; the steps she has taken to verify if it did or did not emanate from her Department, particularly in view of another high-profile leak from within the justice system, for which she has already apologised...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Temporary Release of Prisoners (8 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 133. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there was any communication between her or her Department and the Prison Service in respect of the detention of a person (details supplied); the nature of this communication; if it resulted in a decision to recall the person to prison; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27956/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Opening Hours (8 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 134. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the basis of her assertion made in a recent Parliamentary Question reply to this Deputy that all Garda Síochána stations in the Salthill and Clifden Garda Síochána divisions, other than the stations in Clifden, Salthill, Oughterard and An Cheathrú Rua, are open each weekday from Monday to Friday from 10.00...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Applications (8 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 190. To ask the Minister for Health if there is any scheme of assistance available under the aegis of his Department to assist voluntary groups in the community, who are setting up first responder groups, with the cost of equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27953/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 235. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in the context of his planning regulations regarding change of use-material change of use of retail units, if he will clarify the situation with regard to the opening of sex-adult shops in residential-sensitive localities to include proximity to schools; the regulations in relation to same in sensitive residential...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Foras na Gaeilge (8 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 258. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an mbeidh cás An tUltach, iris atá seanbhunaithe, An Timire agus Feasta á phlé ag an gcéad chruinniú eile den Chomhairle Aireachta Thuaidh Theas; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [27919/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Aquaculture Development: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I apologise for being late but there was an agricultural event for Holstein friesians in Limerick today and I have just returned from that. We should recognise this is a document published by the Minister. We will make a submission and the Minister will then publish a final document. We are not writing the document. Whatever we do as a committee, the witnesses have to understand that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Aquaculture Development: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is that in respect of fish farms?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Aquaculture Development: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Size or total elimination.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Aquaculture Development: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish we had a lot more time on this because it seems that on the shellfish side, rather than on the finfish farming side, which I will park for a minute, the vision Bord Iascaigh Mhara was putting forward was that we needed very large processing companies to make it economical and to become a player. That always raises two questions. First, who would work in these factories? Would it be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Aquaculture Development: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: With no disrespect, people have been brought into County Mayo.

Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Prices (9 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Ann Phelan, for coming to the House to debate this important issue. The decline in Common Agricultural Policy funding means that the issue of price has to take centre stage. I have been telling the Minister for three years that it is absolutely vital for him to realise that the price issue cannot be left simply to market forces. The reality is that...