Results 1,781-1,800 of 16,057 for speaker:Mary Coughlan
- Grant Payments. (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: Under the new single payment scheme farmers receiving direct aid are required to respect the various statutory management requirements set down in EU legislation on the environment, food safety, animal health and welfare, and plant health and to maintain the farm in good agricultural and environmental condition. There is also an obligation on the member state to ensure that there is no...
- Grant Payments. (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: There has been no finality in our discussions on the protocol with the farm organisations but I hope they will conclude next week. As often happens, leaks from the committee appeared in newspapers. Although the substance of these leaks was incorrect, I could not do much about them once the newspapers had gone to print. I will make the paper publicly available once it has been agreed. Farmers...
- Grant Payments. (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: Yes, there is a list. Categories include environment, birds and habitat, sludge and pollution, nitrates â if the relevant directive is ever implemented â and identification.
- Grant Payments. (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: Yes, they will be told.
- Research Funding. (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: As I outlined in my speech at the opening of the Teagasc biotechnology centre, my policy priority for the agrifood sector is to support the development of sustainable, competitive and multi-functional agricultural production and a food processing sector which is export oriented, innovative and consumer focused. To ensure this, agriculture and food research must provide a strong scientific...
- Research Funding. (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: Deputy Upton tapped into the intellectual issue, which is of great concern and on which there has not been much agreement. Moorepark and the universities have conducted a lot of public good research, in particular under the FIRM programme, which will be available to all. I agree that driving research and development within the food industry is paramount if we are to compete. Large companies...
- Research Funding. (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: Considerable investment has been made, through Teagasc, in research. For example, investment for non-capital purposes was â¬118.5 million and for capital purposes, â¬4.5 million. Much work has been done in food research. Teagasc employs 200 scientists in nine centres. I had the opportunity in the United States to discuss the issue of intellectual property. We are prepared to look as...
- Research Funding. (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: My Department does not usually talk about import substitution as Ireland is a significant exporter of its food and drinks products.
- Research Funding. (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: Very little of what we produce ourselves is not exported.
- Research Funding. (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: There are some products we cannot produce, which is a matter we can do little to address unless we get a new climate. That could happen, God knows.
- Research Funding. (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: I am disappointed about organic production for a number of reasons. The price of organic produce, which we have all discussed, is high because a great deal of it is imported. We acknowledged at a committee meeting yesterday that there is nothing more organic than our grasslands and domestic methods of production. There has been significant investment in support of organic food through...
- Disability Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed). (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The amendment proposes to provide examples of personal social services for the purposes of Part 2 of the Bill. I understand from the Department of Health and Children that some personal social services, such as residential care, are covered in existing health legislation. Any further expansion of the scope of such provisions by defining "personal social services" would be more appropriately...
- Disability Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed). (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: We are in the same Government.
- Disability Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed). (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: I am unaccustomed to retorting to a Second Stage speech on Report Stage. I do not know how Deputy McGrath got away with that. The sectoral plans were a matter of discussion. A number of strategic Departments will be involved in sectoral plans. The Department of Education and Science will have a separate one. It would be ludicrous if my Department had a sectoral plan. It would not be...
- Disability Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed). (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The Government's amendment No. 51a refers to procedures for interviews. Deputy Lynch has withdrawn her amendment, which reflects the language issue to which she adverted. The change in the language of the subsections is so the assessment officer will meet the applicant rather than ask the applicant to attend for interview. People would be happy with that. Amendment No. 53 proposes a further...
- Disability Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed). (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: Having nearly 20 years of experience and having been involved in advocacy when this discussion was taking place, I am as competent as anybody else to deal with legislation in this House. I was very much involved in the Cabinet sub-committee review of disabilities. As a person, no more than Deputy Finian McGrath, who has a child with disability I have both a personal and political view in...
- Disability Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed). (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The Deputy would not be there, either.
- Disability Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed). (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: That is it. We are going to take over the place.
- Disability Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed). (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: We are getting nowhere unless we can get this legislation finished and enacted and see how it works out.
- Disability Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed). (25 May 2005)
Mary Coughlan: I move amendment No. 51a: In page 12, line 14, to delete "attend before" and substitute "meet with".