Results 261-280 of 354 for speaker:Joe Walsh
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (13 May 2004)
Joe Walsh: The 2003 area aid application for the person named was processed by my Department in respect of 13.82 hectares. Subsequently, it was established that the area contained buildings. This resulted in a revised area determined for payment purposes of 13.65 hectares. The person named was paid â¬1,615.43 on 19 September 2003 under the 2003 area-based compensatory allowance scheme. He was paid...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (13 May 2004)
Joe Walsh: The agri-environmental plan from the person named has been returned on several occasions for amendment in recent months. The most recent version, received in late March, is being examined at present and my Department will be in touch directly with the applicant when this examination is complete.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (13 May 2004)
Joe Walsh: Under the EU regulations governing the single payment scheme a member state may provide that a certain percentage of the single payment to be established for certain categories of farmers may be transferred to the national reserve â the so-called windfall profit clause. The categories of farmers concerned are in general those who sold or leased out their holding or part of their holding...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (13 May 2004)
Joe Walsh: Applicants under the area-based compensatory allowance scheme must meet a minimum stocking density of 0.15 livestock units per forage hectare of the holding in the year preceding application. However, farmers with some stock who are unable to meet that minimum stocking density but who traditionally qualified for headage grants in respect of cattle and/or sheep may continue to qualify for...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2004)
Joe Walsh: The requirement under the new single payment scheme that individual farmers need to have 100% of the average land area that they had during the reference period would have resulted in serious problems for those Irish farmers who, for specific reasons, declare less lands in 2005 or subsequent years, than the average area of land that they farmed during the reference period. Ireland secured a...
- Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (4 May 2004)
Joe Walsh: The specific procedures for appeals under the rural environment protection scheme include an initial appeal to my Department's local office and the right of appeal to the agriculture appeals office. The initial appeal in this case was unsuccessful. The Department of Agriculture and Food has written to the person in question informing him of the decision and advising him of his right to make a...
- Written Answers — Property Acquisitions: Property Acquisitions (4 May 2004)
Joe Walsh: My Department has not had discussions or negotiations about the property referred to by the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2004)
Joe Walsh: Payment of the 2004 forestry premium will be made to the person in question shortly.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2004)
Joe Walsh: The person in question applied for a premium on 35 animals under the 2003 suckler cow premium scheme. An inspection carried out on 18 November 2003 found that one animal in respect of which a premium was applied for, animal tag No. 181950860076, did not comply with the identification and registration requirements set out in paragraph 38 of the terms and conditions of the scheme. The animal...
- Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (4 May 2004)
Joe Walsh: The EU regulation governing the early retirement scheme requires that a pension be paid as a supplement to any national retirement pension received by the participant, his or her spouse or a partner in a joint management arrangement. My Department has an obligation, therefore, to establish whether a person, on reaching the national retirement age, is entitled to a national retirement pension....
- Written Answers — Genetically Modified Organisms: Genetically Modified Organisms (4 May 2004)
Joe Walsh: I understand that the United States has initiated dispute settlement proceedings rather than a claim for compensation, in the World Trade Organisation in a case entitled European Communities â Measures affecting the Approval and Marketing of Bio-Tech Products. The WTO panel that has been established to examine the case has not yet reported. The question of compensation, if at all, would...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (30 Mar 2004)
Joe Walsh: My Department has received in excess of 14,000 applications from farmers, requesting consideration of force majeure or exceptional circumstances in the calculation of their entitlements under the single payment scheme. The processing of their applications has commenced and individual applicants are currently being informed of the outcome of their applications. Farmers, who may be dissatisfied...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (30 Mar 2004)
Joe Walsh: The single payment will be based on the average number of animals or the average number of hectares in the case of arable aid on which payments were made under the livestock premia and arable aid schemes in respect of the three reference years 2000, 2001 and 2002. The single payment is calculated by taking the three-yearly average number of animals-arable hectares which attracted payment and...
- Written Answers — Foot and Mouth Disease: Foot and Mouth Disease (30 Mar 2004)
Joe Walsh: In April 2003 I announced the publication of a new contingency plan and operations manual for dealing with any future outbreaks of foot and mouth disease. This manual drew heavily on the experience of the 2001 outbreak in Ireland, and included an input from the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in Northern Ireland, DARDNI. The Deputy will also be aware that in the context of...
- Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (30 Mar 2004)
Joe Walsh: It is a requirement of the EU regulations governing the schemes of early retirement from farming that any national retirement pension to which a scheme participant â and his or her spouse or partner in a joint management situation â becomes entitled must be deducted from the early retirement pension. The value of national retirement pensions offset against the early retirement pension...
- Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (30 Mar 2004)
Joe Walsh: This application was received on 8 January 2004. A decision on this application will be made in the near future.
- Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (30 Mar 2004)
Joe Walsh: Having considered an appeal from the person named, the agriculture appeals office has now finalised its position. The case is being processed for payment.
- Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (30 Mar 2004)
Joe Walsh: The schemes of early retirement from farming introduced in 1994 and 2000 in implementation of EU regulations were explicitly designed to encourage older farmers to bring forward their retirement and to transfer their holdings to younger farmers at an earlier date than might otherwise have been the case. Consequently farmers became eligible for both schemes on reaching the age of 55. These...
- Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (30 Mar 2004)
Joe Walsh: My Department is in the final stages of discussions with the European Commission on the detailed rules for implementing the mid-term review agreement which will apply to all EU member states. I have already raised a number of issues relating to both farmers who have retired under the early retirement schemes and the young farmers who replaced them, and the implications for them of decoupling...
- Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (30 Mar 2004)
Joe Walsh: The EU regulations governing the two schemes of early retirement from farming provide that where a transferor is paid a national retirement pension, it must be offset against the pension under the early retirement scheme and the transferor may be paid only the balance of the latter, if any. The pensions defined as national retirement pensions for the purposes of the scheme of early retirement...