Results 34,101-34,120 of 40,897 for speaker:Simon Coveney
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: That is correct.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: The European Union has given Ireland approval to pay an advance of the 2012 single farm payment. A total of €600 million will be paid out from 16 October. My Department is working hard to ensure payments will be processed as quickly as possible thereafter. Despite tough economic conditions, we are investing significantly in the REPS to ensure farmers are supported in delivering the...
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: If Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív wants to get political, if we had to operate under the expenditure ceilings on which the Government of which he was a member signed off, we would not have anything like the schemes we have in place.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: The facts are in black and white; the numbers are available.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: The Deputy does not want to hear the truth. He does not want me to address his hypocrisy on the issue.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: I was happy to outline in a non-partisan way what the Government had done in the past 18 months, but I must refer to the hypocrisy of the motion and what Fianna Fáil is calling for, given what it left the country with before it left office.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: I had to negotiate an increase in the expenditure ceilings last year because of the mess left by Fianna Fáil.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: If I had not managed to negotiate that increase, we would never have seen an AEOS in place.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: We are going to have a challenging budget for next year, but I will do what I did last year, that is, be upfront and honest with farming bodies and work closely with them, as I already do on the CAP and as we did last year in the build-up to the budget to try to find the savings we needed to make, as every Minister must do within his or her Department, to cut the cost of delivering services....
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: -----the expenditure ceilings it had left us with and we had to adjust upwards.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: I will do everything possible to protect farm incomes and the supports available for farm families, particularly after the difficult summer they have faced.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: “acknowledges:— the economic role of the agrifood sector and the importance of Food Harvest 2020 which is being led by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine as a strategic vision for the agrifood sector; — the increase in employment in the food...
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: Some 90,000 out of the 100,000 are not affected at all.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: They can appeal and are appealing.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: It is not paid in October every year.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: Did he read the programme for Government?
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: He is not even saying this with a straight face.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: We are ahead of where we have ever been.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: The payments are ahead of schedule.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Simon Coveney: The payments ---