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Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Does the Deputy know how many medical cards are in the State?

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: How many?

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: An extra 200,000 cards have been issued in the past two years.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: No.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Nobody on this side of the House is pretending that decisions that were made in yesterday's budget will not have a negative impact on people. This is the seventh difficult budget in five years and some of the decisions taken will have an effect on income and put some people under more pressure. I attended the meetings and we spent hours going through the options, trying to limit the pain...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Is it Fianna Fáil policy to have a reduction for everyone?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Since 1923, the purchase prices of lands taken over by the former Irish Land Commission (ILC) were payable in State-guaranteed Land Bonds. Most of the owners whose land was acquired were compensated in these Land Bonds yielding a fixed rate of return. They were redeemable at their nominal or original value, either by periodic random selection from what was known as the Land Bond Fund, or...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: I am committed to the development of a strong and sustainable suckler cow sector and am fully aware of the issues facing it at present. To assist in its development, I announced a Beef Genomics Scheme (BGS) yesterday specifically aimed at suckler farmers, that will help to accelerate the kind of genetic improvement that will drive efficiency and increase profitability at farm level. This...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Farmers who satisfy certain conditions are eligible to apply to have their entitlements consolidated. The reduction in the number of hectares must have arisen because of one or more of the following circumstances: - The acquisition of land by a public authority under a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) for non-agriculture. - Lands leased in/ rented in during all or part of the reference...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Payment in respect of the 2013 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme issued directly to the nominated bank account of the person named on 10 October 2013, payments under the Scheme having commenced, on target, on 25 September 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Programme (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Since this Government took office my Department has published three Bills: - Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill (28 July 2011) - Animal Health and Welfare Bill (25 April 2012) - Forestry Bill (24 April 2013) No Regulatory Impact Statements have been carried out on Bills in my Department, all were carried out prior to this Government taking office.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bovine Disease Controls (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: My Department introduced a compensation scheme for herdowners, who have 2 or more eligible beef breed calves, in suckler herds born on or after 1 January 2013. To qualify, the herdowner must comply with the conditions of the BVD Eradication Programme, the statutory basis for which is set out in S.I. 532 of 2012. In particular, the calves must have had an initial positive or inconclusive...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: An application under the Single Farm Payment/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from person named on 9 May 2013. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases on-farm inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The application of the person named was selected for a remote sensing...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Payment in respect of the 2013 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme issued directly to the nominated bank account of the person named on 1 October 2013, payments under the Scheme having commenced, on target, on 25 September 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Payment has not yet issued to the person named under the 2013 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme as the holding has not yet satisfied the Scheme minimum stocking density requirements. As soon as the holding concerned is confirmed as having met these requirements, the case will be further processed with a view to payment at the earliest possible date thereafter.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Payment under the 2013 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme issued directly to the nominated bank account of the person named on 10 October 2013, payments under the Scheme having commenced, on target, on 25 September 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020 Strategy (15 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Implementation of Food Harvest 2020 is driven and monitored by the High Level Implementation Committee (HLIC) which comprises senior executives from Bord Bia, Teagasc, BIM, Enterprise Ireland, the Environmental Protection Agency and Forfas as well as departmental representation from my Department and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Representatives from industry and from...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bovine Disease Controls (15 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: The Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) eradication programme, the statutory basis for which is set out in S.I. 532 of 2012, requires that calves indicating an initial positive or inconclusive test for the BVD virus be removed from the herd. I have made compensation available to suckler cow farmers who have multiple cases of persistently infected (PI) calves in their herds in order to encourage the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Application Numbers (15 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Payments under the 2013 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme commenced, on schedule, on 25 September and, to date, payments worth €143.3 million have issued nationally, to some 67,538 applicants, with payments continuing to issue on a twice weekly basis, with individual cases being paid as they are confirmed eligible. The details in respect of payments which have issued to farmers in County...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (15 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: In the context of delivering the Direct Payment Schemes my Department is required to carry out on-the-spot inspections on a number of farms covering such issues as eligibility under the Scheme, compliance with EU legislation in the areas of the environment, food safety, animal health and welfare and plant health and ensuring that the farm is maintained in good agricultural and environmental...