Results 1,961-1,980 of 16,057 for speaker:Mary Coughlan
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (14 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The directive referred to by the Deputy is Directive 2004/28, which resulted from a review of the EU veterinary medicine regime. This directive entered into force with its publication on 30 April 2004 and member states are obliged to transpose it into national law by 30 October 2005. My Department is currently engaged in drafting legislation to transpose this directive, which includes a...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: As the Deputy is aware, Ireland implemented the single payment scheme in January 2005. The special beef premium scheme and the slaughter premium scheme were the only schemes for which the deadline for receipt of applications was 31 December 2004. This meant that as many farmers as possible submitted their applications in late December 2004 to benefit from the special beef premium. Under the...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The person submitted two applications under the 2004 special beef premium scheme in respect of 12 animals. The first application, in respect of eight animals, was received on 25 November 2004, while the second application, in respect of four animals, was received on 17 December 2004. Following computer validation, it was found that six of the animals on the first application and the four...
- Written Answers — National Forestry Strategy: National Forestry Strategy (14 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: Implementation of the forestry strategy is related to the package of supports that provides an incentive for landowners to plant, particularly farmers. I have been pressing strongly that under the proposed new rural development regulation, which is the subject of ongoing negotiations at the Council of Ministers, an adequate package of supports for 2007-13 is agreed. Throughout the...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The 2003 area aid application for the person named has been fully processed with an area determined for payment purposes of 42.75 hectares. This application was originally processed in 2003 with a total forage area of 42.81 hectares but a query arose as to the land use of one of the land parcels included on the area aid application. This parcel of land was assigned as forestry but was being...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The file of the person named was randomly selected for field inspection under computer-based risk analysis. Due to the integrated nature of the bovine schemes, payments due could not be made pending the inputting of these inspection results. These results have recently been recorded and, accordingly, any payments due will now be cleared.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The person named declared a forage area of 19.36 hectares on her 2004 area aid application form. Her stocking density for 2004, based on this area and the number of livestock units on her holding throughout the year as determined from her ewe premium application in the case of sheep and five census dates in the case of cattle, was 2.0599 livestock units per hectare. Since this stocking...
- Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (15 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: I am satisfied that no current member of any State board under the auspices of my Department is disqualified from holding a directorship of a private company.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The person who incurred the overpayment, which happened because his early retirement pension was not reduced to take account of his national retirement pension, is deceased and the debt has fallen on his estate. The early retirement scheme is co-funded by the European Union and, as an accredited paying agency, my Department is obliged to recover such overpayments. However, the Department will...
- Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (15 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The persons concerned are not partners in a new entrant parent milk production partnership and in previous years quota has been allocated to the father â the quota holder â on the normal basis. No application has yet been made by the son to this year's restructuring scheme in the new entrant farming in partnership priority category. If such an application were made and the son satisfies...
- Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (15 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: Each year I set down criteria for the allocation of flexi milk by milk purchasers to their suppliers. The person in question applied for additional quota from the national reserve on the grounds of animal disease in the 2004-05 quota year. The milk quota appeals tribunal examined his application in December 2004 but did not recommend an allocation on that occasion. The applicant appealed the...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: An application for consideration under the force majeure exceptional circumstances measure of the single payment regulations was submitted by the person named on 29 October 2004. Following consideration by my Department and the independent single payment appeals committee of the circumstances outlined, including additional information submitted, the Department is satisfied that force majeure...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The person named, having been notified that the circumstances outlined by him did not satisfy the criteria for force majeure exceptional circumstances under Article 40 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1782/2003, submitted an appeal to the independent single payment appeals committee. Following a full examination of the circumstances outlined in the appeal, the appeals committee made a...
- Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (15 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The agricultural measures under the agriculture and rural development priority of the two regional operational programmes have a wide remit. The primary purpose of the measures is to improve competitiveness and the environment. A job creation target was set only in the case of the potato sub-measure. In that sub-measure 29 jobs have been created out of a 2000-06 target of 80.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The agricultural measures under the agriculture and rural development priority of the BMW regional operational programme are demand-led ones. Various factors such as the foot and mouth situation in 2001 have influenced demand and resultant expenditure. The measures' financial allocations and their eligibility conditions are kept under continuous review. In 2004, for example, improvements were...
- Written Answers — Tribunals of Inquiry: Tribunals of Inquiry (15 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The detailed information requested by the Deputy is being compiled and will be sent to him within one week.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The native woodland scheme and the neighbourhood scheme are part of the woodland improvement sub-measure of the regional operational programmes. This sub-measure includes the reconstitution, shaping, pruning and woodland improvement schemes. NDP funding is committed at a sub-measure level and is not broken down by individual scheme. The total commitment â public expenditure â in the BMW...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application in respect of three animals under the 2004 special beef premium scheme on 5 October 2004. Following computer validation, it was found that the three animals in question had been sold prior to the end of the regulatory two month retention period. Under the terms and conditions of the 2004 special beef premium scheme, it was appropriate that these...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (15 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The information requested by the Deputy is being collated and will be sent to him directly. The services available through An Post are used whenever possible.
- Written Answers — Sugar Industry: Sugar Industry (15 Jun 2005)
Mary Coughlan: At the Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food on 9 February 2005 I expressed the view that it is most important that satisfactory arrangements be put in place to transport to the Mallow factory beet grown by those farmers who had hitherto supplied the Carlow plant. Arrangements for the transport of sugar beet to the Mallow factory is a commercial matter for Irish Sugar Ltd. I remain...