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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Administration (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the contract date be 1 October or will it be the date they are notified by the Minister's Department that they have been accepted into the scheme?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Administration (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There seem to be confusing messages on that. Will those farmers be paid by Christmas? The Minister seems to be indicating they will. Where there are prime work plans and where commonages are not yet prepared and may not be prepared for some considerable time, will those farmers get paid with effect from 1 October this year and will they get paid by Christmas this year? The IFA has...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Administration (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What the IFA sought, and what I asked the Minister, was whether, between AEOS and GLAS, because there will be farmers left in AEOS next year-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Administration (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: -----the Minister will have 50,000 farmers and there will be a total gross expenditure of €250 million. As the Minister knows, the later people join GLAS, the bigger the proportion of the payment that will not fall under this rural development programme. It will fall into the next RDP, but the commitment in the RDP is for €1.25 billion. In fact, it is €1.4 billion for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agriculture Scheme Payments (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 4. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to provide matching funding from the Exchequer to top up the €500 million European Union package of aid to the Irish dairy and pig sectors; the method by which this money will be distributed between farmers; if the payment will be confined to dairy farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34254/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agriculture Scheme Payments (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Minister is aware, money has been made available by the European Union to assist the dairy and pig sectors. I am seeking from the Minister information on how this money is to be disbursed, if national co-financing will be provided and when payments will be made.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agriculture Scheme Payments (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for the information provided at the end of his reply, which is most useful because, as he will be aware, farmers want their payments now. Will the Minister confirm whether these direct payments will be paid to pig and dairy farmers or to dairy farmers only? Also, in the context of a top-up for our farmers, is that top-up likely to be in the region of 20%? Am I correct...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agriculture Scheme Payments (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister confirm that the funding provided by Europe will be of the magnitude spoken about? I accept that the Exchequer funding issue is still up in the air. On Exchequer funding and the Minister's ability to get this money for the dairy sector, the sheep sector is also under huge pressure. The grassland scheme has been withdrawn from that sector. Perhaps the Minister, when...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agriculture Scheme Payments (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minster knows the majority of them will not because they are under the €150 per hectare. Over the period of this CAP, that money is going to amount to nothing. If the Minister does not know that, he should.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agriculture Scheme Payments (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not arguing against redistribution. The Minister always twists what I say.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agriculture Scheme Payments (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not. I want redistribution and I want the farmer to keep his sheep payment.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agriculture Scheme Payments (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I would not have done what the Minister did in the first place.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agriculture Scheme Payments (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It would be a lot better off. The vast majority of farmers would be a lot better off.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agriculture Scheme Payments (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I dealt with the price issue and a fair CAP.

Other Questions: GLAS Administration (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No. It is about low input permanent pasture.

Other Questions: GLAS Administration (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It has, of course.

Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 7. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of money available for lending to Irish agriculture, rural development and farming from the European Investment Bank; when applications will be taken for this funding; the rate of interest to be charged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34221/15]

Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I understand money is potentially available from the European Investment Bank, EIB, in two ways, one of which is making money directly available to SMEs. Can the Minister clarify whether that money is also available to individual farmers? The second element is the possibility of a measure under the rural development programme. Perhaps the Minister could outline his position on that. Many...

Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I refer to my question on the EIB. The Minister's reply, which is similar to one I received yesterday, refers specifically to SMEs. Can the money be accessed by individual farmers for ordinary farming business or is it limited to SMEs, as we understand them? If one was to avail of the second fund, would the RDP have to be adjusted and the funding for existing RDPs reduced? Would it be a...

Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister never gives us answers. He was there for two minutes, but never actually answered the question.