Results 1,681-1,700 of 18,593 for speaker:Michael Creed
- Written Answers — Dairy Sector: Dairy Sector (24 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 434: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will evaluate and quantify financially the benefit of recent market support initiatives for the dairy sector here as approved by the EU Commission; the way this initiative is impacting on the price paid to primary producers; his views on the required level of market support initiatives to ensure that primary...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (24 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 435: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the payment arrangements by his Department envisaged for outstanding grants due under the farm improvement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7510/09]
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (24 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 490: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will publish the number of schools in County Cork which will be directly affected by his recent decision to close special needs classes; the number of children affected in each school; the alternative appropriate educational arrangements that will be made for these children; the number of special needs assistants to whom these...
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (24 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 491: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will sanction sufficient places for apprenticeships (details supplied) in his next announcement of phase six places to facilitate all those who are in a position to complete their final placement and secure their qualifications in view of the fact that many are in very insecure employment due to the downturn in construction;...
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: I bet the Taoiseach wishes he was back in Angola now.
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: The past is a different country.
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: Last but not least, the legislation before the House today provides a legal framework for the State unilaterally to tear up a contract with farmers under the farm waste management scheme. In a reply to a parliamentary question yesterday, the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food confirmed that 40% of the moneys would be paid in 2009. My question to the Taoiseach is in respect of the...
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: With your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I will ask a question that is relevant to the Order of Business. The Estimate provides for only â¬125 million under farm waste management. It requires in the region of â¬230 million to facilitate a payment of 40%. I think the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food would confirm that that figure is about correct. Will there be a...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: I move amendment No. 41: In page 13, subsection (3), lines 5 to 9, to delete all words from and including: "subsection (1)â " in line 5 down to and including "concerned." in line 9 and substitute the following: "subsection (1) a tax credit equivalent to the interest charged shall accumulate.". I am not sure whether many farmers in the Minister's constituency are victims of the Government's...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food entered negotiations this evening with the farm organisations on this particular issue. It would be a courtesy to the House to give us an update on these negotiations.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: I was in the Minister's constituency last night in Cootehill at a public meeting with a couple of hundred farmers. One farmer came up to me after the meeting with a letter from his bank manager. The letter stated that the bank manager wanted to see him as a matter of urgency, in light of the fact that he was no longer in a position to pay his farm waste management loan, and on that basis,...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: Farmers stepped up to the plate in their thousands; in fact, 17,400 of them did so. The Minister failed to provide adequate funding in the budget for that. A total of â¬125 million in 2009 leaves us short of â¬105 million to pay even the 40% to which the Minister refers. We need clarity from this debate. We do not want a situation where farmers are being asked to live horse and get...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: There is not a single Fianna Fáil backbencher in the House to debate this matter. It is deplorable.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: He is the Minister for injustice.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: Will the Minister give an assurance to the House that in the event of the Government failing to conclude an agreement with the banks, the State will meet the interest liability?
- Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: There are no Leaders' answers on Tuesdays or Wednesdays.
- Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: Not until after the local elections.
- Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: The Tánaiste left Agriculture House in a mess and then she made a mess of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 156: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the funding available to a student pursuing a PhD in the Irish language at a college of the National University of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8089/09]
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Feb 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 185: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork who is an applicant under REPS 4 will receive their first REPS payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8085/09]