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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare and the Control and Management of Horses: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Jackie Cahill: The Garda can seize them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare and the Control and Management of Horses: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Jackie Cahill: It is a catch-22 situation. They can seize them but they have nowhere to take them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare and the Control and Management of Horses: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I want to go back to microchipping. For me, this is at the hub of the issue. Mr. Shine answered a question there and he said that the vast majority of the horses that are impounded have no microchip. He said he was happy enough and I took a rough calculation of the figures he mentioned for registration as regards the number of foals that are born every year and I reckon that only 80% to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare and the Control and Management of Horses: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Jackie Cahill: Is there no stick we can use to force microchipping? It is a tease rather than enforcement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare and the Control and Management of Horses: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Jackie Cahill: Only a small percentage of the cases where horses have been seized have led to prosecution. This goes back to the point that those seized are not microchipped.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (19 Jun 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the location in which a person (details supplied) can obtain a motorised wheelchair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25680/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Grants (19 Jun 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 225. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the continuous cover forestry schemes in operation; the number of participants in each such scheme; the total current and capital funding allocated to each such scheme in 2019; the grant and premium rates for each such scheme; and the criteria required to draw down a payment in each available scheme. [25789/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Woodland Improvement Scheme (19 Jun 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 226. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1137 of 8 May 2019, the reason there was such a large underspend in each year of the woodland improvement scheme since it was established. [25790/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Travel Documents (25 Jun 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the documentation persons (details supplied) require to travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26227/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (25 Jun 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a special needs assistant, SNA, will be organised in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26324/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (25 Jun 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 478. To ask the Minister for Health if the FreeStyle Libre device will be extended to the general population of persons with diabetes; if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26690/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Data (25 Jun 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 539. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on comments by an organisation (details supplied) regarding the delay in processing forestry applications; the number of applications received in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of applications that remained to be processed and a final decision made by 31 December in each year; the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (25 Jun 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 540. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions for afforestation for the agricultural sector in the Climate Action Plan 2019; the annual emission reductions via carbon sequestration; the total reduction over the period of the plan; and the annual net cost for each forestry action covered by the plan. [26478/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (25 Jun 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 615. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with a company (details supplied) to examine the potential for promoting and incentivising the use of a product by sports clubs in the provision of new grass playing fields or for the improvement of existing grass playing fields; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26379/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jun 2019)

Jackie Cahill: Beef production in Europe is under serious economic pressure. As Deputy Martin Kenny has said, climate change will pose its own challenges but producers in Europe are able to provide food sustainably. Farmers cannot understand how the Commission can allow a Mercosur deal that will allow 80,000 to 90,000 tonnes of beef into Europe to go through, displacing food sustainably produced in...

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2019)

Jackie Cahill: The role played by carers is immense. It is a reflection of the importance of the extended family in society, which is part of our history and culture. It is also a reflection of the strong sense of community that still exists, despite the pressures of modern living. We are clear about our responsibilities to older people and those who, for whatever reason, are unable to care fully for...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2019)

Jackie Cahill: After many years of negotiations, the Mercosur deal is near to conclusion. When the concessions on beef imports were given, European beef producers were in a completely different scenario from the one they are in today. Brexit will make the European Union 116% self-sufficient in beef, while climate change will pose significant challenges to sustainable food production in Europe. European...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (27 Jun 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an appeal by a club (details supplied) to the decision not to grant it funding for equipment as part of the sports capital grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27236/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Payments (27 Jun 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 255. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a social welfare payment for a person (details supplied) will be paid directly in to their bank account; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27385/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Jackie Cahill: Page 58 of the programme for Government refers to capacity with respect to an emergency disability fund. My HSE area was allocated €1.5 million at the beginning of the year to address cases where people with a disability could be moved out of acute care to rehabilitative care. Unfortunately, this fund was exhausted in a very short time. I have been dealing with the case of a 29 year...