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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bovine Disease Controls (24 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: The objective of the BVD Compensation Programme is to incentivise the culling of persistently infected (PI) calves. A payment of €120 is made for each persistently infected beef breed calf born in 2014 and removed to a knackery with a recorded date of death on my Department’s AIM database. A payment of €75 is made for the second and each subsequent PI female dairy breed...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Staff Remuneration (24 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: No staff of my Department or agencies under its aegis received bonus payments in 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Herd Numbers (23 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: The Regional Veterinary Office has no record of receiving an application form (ER1) for the transfer of a herdnumber from the person concerned. A blank application form has now been issued to her.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (23 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: My Department has not received an application under any of the TAMS I or TAMS II schemes for the person mentioned.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (23 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: My Department is currently examining approximately 400 cases that submitted invoices from one particular company to verify and support claims under the non-productive capital investment action of AEOS. It is known that in some cases the invoices submitted were for greater amounts than actually paid by the participants. Funding provided under the scheme comes partly from the EU and partly...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Herd Numbers (23 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: Processing of the application for a flock number from the person concerned will be completed shortly and a letter will issue to him with details of same early next week.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps Equipment (23 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: The equipment priorities for the Army, Air Corps and the Naval Service will be considered in the context of the lifetime of the recently published White Paper. The White Paper recognises that there are several new and or enhanced platforms to be procured. In the context of the Air Corps fleet, this includes the replacement of the Cessna fleet with three larger aircraft suitably equipped...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Operations (23 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 77 to 81, inclusive, together. It should be noted that the primary responder for search and rescue in the State is the Irish Coast Guard (IRCG). The primary role of the Naval Service Diving Section is to support Naval and other Defence Forces operations. However, the Naval Service makes every effort to deploy to assist in maritime search operations...

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: Not if a person has a job.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: You will not accept it because you do not want to accept the facts that have come from a commission of inquiry and a senior judge, as they do not suit your political argument. The truth is that you bet the house on a different result-----

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: -----and it did not transpire. Now that it has not transpired, you have actually ignored-----

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: -----the assessment of the only person who has interviewed everybody involved in the issue.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: That is the reality.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: It smacks a little of desperation when Deputy Collins's strongest argument is a poll on an RTE television show.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: That is the basis-----

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: That is the basis for the strength of that argument.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: The truth is-----

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: I have not dismissed anybody except you.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: This is a confidence motion that should not have been necessary. Deputy O'Sullivan was absolutely correct.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Simon Coveney: We have some serious issues that need to be resolved in Ireland right now regarding homelessness, housing, the challenges of child care and poverty. There are continuing challenges in the economy on which we are continuing to work and from which we are getting good results. That is what we should be debating on the first day back, when people are listening to their politicians and leaders....