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- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Staff (24 Feb 2015)
Simon Coveney: The Defence Organisation includes military personnel and civil servants, along with civilian employees who are attached to military installations. The vast majority of Civil Servants and civilian employees do not have contact with service users in the normal course of their duties. Accordingly there is no requirement for the wearing of name badges by these personnel. However, it is practice...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Simon Coveney: The agrifood sector is playing a considerable role in our economic recovery. The sector remains Ireland’s largest indigenous industry and accounts for almost one in nine jobs, mainly in rural and coastal areas where few other employment opportunities exist. Bord Bia recently confirmed a fifth consecutive year of growth in agrifood exports. The value of Ireland’s food and...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Simon Coveney: GLAS opened as of yesterday.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Simon Coveney: Yes. The planned closing date is 15 May. I will answer all the questions together.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Simon Coveney: There are 400 planners in the country outside Teagasc, who have taken on a lot of extra people to work with them.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Simon Coveney: I will come back to the Deputy with my replies in a moment. I just wanted to correct the record on that point.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Simon Coveney: What is that?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Simon Coveney: What heading is that?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Simon Coveney: The problem is I have to respond to it.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Simon Coveney: I have not given the responses yet, which might take a while. I will try and give as much detail as I can. On Deputy Ó Cuív's question about taxation, we are not trying to give everybody a tax break, we are trying to use taxation to do strategic things, like move land out of conacre into long-term leasing, which is working very well. There has been a big increase in the number...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Simon Coveney: Yes.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Simon Coveney: There are 23 measures. Their total value to agriculture is approximately €300 million. We went into this matter in great detail in the budget. However, we will not know the numbers using each measure until the end of the year and Revenue knows-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Simon Coveney: The new measures are quite different than what used to be there.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Simon Coveney: The Deputy might find it as easy to get the information by putting a parliamentary question to me.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Simon Coveney: Let me look.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Simon Coveney: I will see what I can do. Regarding the rural development programme, RDP, my intention is to have the money spent by the end of this round of CAP, which is 2020. As the Deputy is aware, there is a flexibility to go beyond 2020 to n+2 or n+3 if we must, just as with the last RDP when this and the previous Governments had to reduce spending. I hope that we will be able to spend the full...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Simon Coveney: It does not have a significant impact on the single farm payment for this year because farmers will receive the same decoupled payment. The single farm payment will be the same but it will be applied for based on a lesser hectarage. It may have an impact on redistribution or disadvantaged area scheme payments but the amount of the single farm payment will be the same. Farmers need to sit...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Simon Coveney: We must ascertain how this will pan out. We have about €53 million to spend and must make decisions. I suspect one of the first things we would do is to start with the guys with more than 60 animals. They would receive €80 per animal for as many as we could pay them. That is not unreasonable. We will prioritise the small farmer, as we do in the case of the €10 payment.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Simon Coveney: In the west the average herd size is 15 animals. We want to make sure we keep the people concerned in business. The big operators will receive a big dividend, but if we must cut our cloth to measure, they will be making a contribution. I have not made a definitive decision, but I am providing the committee with my thinking on the matter. There were over 6,000 applicants and we will have...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015) Simon Coveney: Most of the funding will actually come through Science Foundation Ireland. The national research prioritisation exercise, NRPE, was published in 2012 and recommended that the majority of the approximately €500 million annual public spend on scientific research should be targeted at 14 priority investment areas, at least five of which are relevant to the agrifood and marine sectors....