Results 30,881-30,900 of 40,897 for speaker:Simon Coveney
- Fodder Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: To the best of the Deputy's knowledge.
- Fodder Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: The Deputy was not calling for it.
- Fodder Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: It is not.
- Fodder Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: The Deputy does not know what he is talking about.
- Fodder Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: That is not true.
- Fodder Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: It has not passed the Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: This is the first time the European Parliament or the Council have ever done this. We have never agreed through co-decision or a trialogue process a Common Agricultural Policy or a Common Fisheries Policy. Therefore, it is new ground for everybody. There is an element of mistrust, although the personalities have a good relationship. Everybody is trying to get a final agreement as close to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: There is a thing called relative stability which is what determines who gets quota and where. That is not being changed under the CFP reform because if we attempt to change it, the process would go nowhere because there is not a qualified majority and there are probably only two or three countries that would seek to change it. Obviously, Ireland would like to see an increase in its quota...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: It is still in the range.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: The impression being given is that large farmers are getting by far the highest payments per hectare.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: That is not always the case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: It is not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: If I am going to attend here and answer questions-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: I appear before the committee on a regular basis and yet again we have Deputy Ó Cuív grandstanding and playing to the gallery to try to get a few headlines for himself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: Other members would also like to get information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: I have the information and I will circulate it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: I will provide the figures later in order that I can answer the questions that have been put. It is 3.20 p.m. and I was supposed to leave five minutes ago. With regard to the reference year, we secured some flexibility in this regard following an Irish request in March during the negotiations because the reference year until then had been 2014, which was undisputed. There was a tie-back...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: I am sorry. There are different views in the different institutions. We have said in the Council that protecting permanent pasture should happen on a national or regional basis. If the limit on ploughing permanent pasture at 5% was applied on an individual farm basis, it could be restrictive for somebody who is looking to increase productivity, expand a dairy herd or, for example, putting...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: I will give a brief statement on where we are at. The CFP is coming down to four areas that need political agreement. The first is on discards and how we manage the cessation of discarding fish unnecessarily at sea. Currently, in Irish waters between 400,000 and 500,000 tonnes of fish are thrown over the side dead each year, which is a huge volume of fish. Some are juvenile fish but many...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)
Simon Coveney: What is rubbish?