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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (23 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will support a limit of €100,000 on the amount that any person or company could receive in one year under the single farm payment, thus freeing up almost €33 million for redistribution to small to medium farm households. [46493/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Applications (23 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person who has left their employment to seek alternative employment and have enough contributions, are entitled to claim jobseeker's benefit. [46276/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Size (23 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown of all farms in the State according to size; that is below 10 ha; between 10ha and 20 ha; 20 and 30 ha and so on up to the largest holdings. [45650/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (23 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has conducted a study of the likely impact of the proposed reform of the single farm payment; and if he will make the study available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45897/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (23 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will support a limit of €100,000 on the amount that any person or company could receive in one year under the single farm payment, thus freeing up almost €33 million for redistribution to small to medium farm households. [46493/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Size (23 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown of all farms in the State according to size; that is below 10 ha; between 10ha and 20 ha; 20 and 30 ha and so on up to the largest holdings. [45650/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (23 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has conducted a study of the likely impact of the proposed reform of the single farm payment; and if he will make the study available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45897/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (23 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will support a limit of €100,000 on the amount that any person or company could receive in one year under the single farm payment, thus freeing up almost €33 million for redistribution to small to medium farm households. [46493/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Restorative Justice Programmes in Northern Ireland: Discussion (18 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I commend Community Restorative Justice Ireland on its outstanding work over the years, and particularly on the great service it provides to communities. It helps to empower communities, and it helps the victims in addition to dealing with the perpetrators in a manner that is humane and caring. It offers the latter an opportunity to realise...

Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: Who is Minister X?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Penalty Point System (18 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the time-frame set down by the North South Ministerial Council to harmonise penalty points on a cross border basis. [45139/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (18 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in a recent Euorbarometre poll over 63% of respondents listed sea as a main attraction; in view of this, the efforts he has taken to promote growth in visitor numbers to coastal communities and towns around the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45125/12]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (17 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details on his recent trip to meet the UN Assistant Secretary General in New York to discuss the current situation in Syria; if Ireland has been asked to carry out any specific tasks by the UN Assistant Secretary General to help elevate the humanitarian crisis in the region. [44813/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (17 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he supports proposals to stop making single farm payments to businesses. [45355/12]

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: The amount being cut from home care and home help services is relatively small relative to the overall scale of the cuts being implemented but they will have a significant impact across the country. Just as strategic public spending has a positive multiplier effect in terms of the overall economy, cuts have the opposite impact beyond the initial scale of the money involved. Not only will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Review of Food Harvest 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) with Irish Dairy Board and Bord Bia (16 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: I was very interest in Mr. Cotter's earlier remark that we are entering an era when cheap food will no longer be the norm. Does he base that on the fact that we are coming to the end of subsidies for what we are producing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Review of Food Harvest 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) with Irish Dairy Board and Bord Bia (16 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: There is a serious worry at present about the Common Agricultural Policy and the possible outcomes of that debate from a national as well as European perspective. The survival of the family farm goes beyond economics and is essential for the maintenance of the social fabric of our society. It is our job as legislators, whether in government or in opposition, to try to ensure we get the best...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Review of Food Harvest 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) with Irish Dairy Board and Bord Bia (16 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: I thank our guests for their presentation. It has been stated Irish food and drink companies increasingly recognise the value of strategic engagement with each other. Are such companies co-operating or collaborating with each other, particularly in the context of research and development? The successful delivery of Origin Green will help key players in the industry to strengthen each...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Review of Food Harvest 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) with Irish Dairy Board and Bord Bia (16 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: I welcome Mr. Buckley and thank him for his presentation, in the course of which he mentioned managing market volatility. Will he elaborate further on that point? Is he referring to competition from emerging developing countries or is the issue wider than this? With the milk quota system due to come to an end in 2015, is he concerned about the free market determining the level of supply?...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code Issues (16 Oct 2012)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she will present options for consideration, having regard, inter alia, to the results of the July 2012 actuarial review of the social insurance fund; and if the detail of these options will be made available to members of the Oireachtas well in advance of Budget 2013. [44566/12]