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- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: Half of the farmers participate in the suckler cow welfare scheme.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: We can give the Deputy any information he wants on the beef genomic scheme, just as we give it to farmers. We will give him what is available.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: I will. We will send it over when we have it ready.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: The Department does not get the betting tax. There is currently a 1% betting tax on all bookie shops.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: That revenue goes into the Department of Finance. Now that 1% tax will be extended to online and remote betting which will increase the revenue stream from betting tax.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: Let me answer the question. That revenue goes into the Department of Finance and does not get allocated automatically to my Department. We still must make decisions on the Horse and Greyhound Fund which are consistent with our overall expenditure ceiling and budget. If there is a good income stream coming into the Exchequer general from betting revenue which is dominated by the horse and...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: It will increase the yield towards the allocation but there is still a discrepancy between what we will get in tax on online betting and what is committed to in the Horse and Greyhound Fund. I would like to see an increased revenue stream from betting revenues in the future but we need to get a system that works up and running first and then we can have a debate on the rate.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: As I have said to the Minister for Finance on a number of occasions, we first need to get a system in place that collects a levy from online and remote betting, that is, telephone betting, from both betting exchanges and online bookies. We need to get that system up and running. Many countries have looked at how to do this and have not been very successful. Once we have a system up and...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: May I respond because there is something I need to clarify here before we go down this road any further? There are two matters being confused here. There is the 2014 payment for the beef suckler herd, part of which requires a farmer to take a DNA sample from 15% of the herd and to provide information on his or her herd. That is a separate scheme to the one on which we are building for the...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: The Deputy is referring to a personal location device.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: We are grant aiding that. That was announced in Union Hall. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, held a joint launch to announce a grant-aid scheme for personal location devices, emergency position indicating radiobeacons, EPERB, from boats which, when they hit the water, float and send off a distress signal, and a number of other matters. One will see the...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: Is the Chairman referring to expenditure in 2013?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: Yes, an additional sum of €1 million was allocated, which was a slightly increased contribution from the Department in respect of food allocation for the development aid budget.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: I thought that increase was merited. It went to the Congo and was sanctioned in December. I assure the Chairman it is money that is being well spent. However, that contribution, which is part of the overall calculation in respect of the Government's commitment to the development aid budget, is not money that would have been spent elsewhere. Nevertheless, I consider it to have been...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: On the beef genomics scheme, I outlined earlier how that will work but essentially, any farmer with suckler cows who is also participating in the beef data programme, which is currently approximately 34,000 farmers, will be eligible to join the beef genomics scheme. The beef data programme will be opened to new participants as well in 2014. The farmer will receive €40 per calf under...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: No, it is not. The farmer determines what is eligible. He or she has a responsibility to do that and the Department then checks the eligibility by inspection. If there has been a physical inspection on a farm and the claim has been approved on the basis of the inspection by the Department there will not be any retrospective claims on the land. If there is a dispute as to eligibility there...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: I wish to finish my response to Deputy Ferris. This is a very difficult issue. I accept many farmers feel very angry and hard-done by in terms of the issue but in the position I am in I only have two alternatives. Either we deal with this as a country through my Department and an appeals process working with farmers on a case-by-case basis to try to get an accurate assessment of what is...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: Farmers have responsibility each year to put a red line around areas on their holdings that are not agricultural land. If a road is put in across a field then the appropriate change must be made. If a yard or shed is extended or if it was decided to take land out of agricultural use the farmer has an obligation to show that. If there is an extension of scrub which makes the land not...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: One can grow crops on an area of ecological focus.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Simon Coveney: I am very familiar with the maps. We have a family farm on which a claim is made.