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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Finally, €24 million was unspent. Unspent money is not good, especially when schemes such as GLAS are underfunded. In the agri-environmental schemes sub-heading, the Estimate provision for GLAS was €245 million and only €225 million was spent. My understanding was that more people wanted to get into GLAS so why was there an underspend on the scheme? It states that the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Were those 25% picked up the year after?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: They were left out only for that year.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Is the funding running out in targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, TAMS, for the farmers building milk parlours etc.? Some farmers spoke to me recently to say it was not guaranteed that grants would be paid. Has the money in TAMS been overspent or is it running out? Have there been too many applicants and not enough funding?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Would there be percentage cuts?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: What is the percentage figure for farmers who have applied and who may not be successful? Does the witness have that information?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: So roughly one fifth could be left out.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Did the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine see the report?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Costs (19 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: The cost of motor insurance is simply unsustainable. Although the Minister of State provided some facts, I would go so far as to call it daylight robbery of our citizens. Sole traders and small and medium-sized business operators in the taxi and bus transport business are being pushed to the pins of their collars at a time when more people are out spending. They should be experiencing an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Costs (19 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I do not accept that the cost of insurance policies is coming down. We can see the position on a daily basis from reading the newspapers. Voluntary groups in particular are suffering because of insurance. They are being crippled and will ending up closing down. Last week, the Irish Independentreported that insurance companies enjoyed a profit surge of over 1,300% in 2017. The article...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Costs (19 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 30. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures taken to meet and engage with insurance companies regarding excessive premiums being charged to consumers particularly in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; if he has investigated the possibility of opening up the insurance market here to new providers in order to increase competitiveness in prices charged for motor insurance; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Costs (19 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I would like to ask the Minister for Finance what measures have been taken to meet and engage with insurance companies regarding excessive premiums charged to consumers, particularly in counties Carlow and Kilkenny, and whether he has investigated the possibility of opening the insurance market here to new providers in order to increase competitiveness in motor insurance. I would like him to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (19 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 153. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the review of the Defamation Act 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25752/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Exemptions (18 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 125. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to reduce the unaffordable price of pembrolizumab by removing the cost of the VAT on same to assist in potentially life-saving treatment as in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25333/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (18 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 247. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the review being undertaken by officials of the Irish Prison Service and his Department in consultation with the Attorney General examining the necessary legislative and or administrative changes arising from the ruling in a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25107/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (18 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 385. To ask the Minister for Health when the 7.5% property rate within the fair deal scheme capped at three years for the vast majority of persons will be extended to farming families; if the extension will be applied retrospectively to current participants of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25156/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (18 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 391. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in reimbursement payment by the HSE to a person (details supplied) who availed of the cross-Border directive for a procedure six months ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25200/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (18 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 522. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the distribution of the €100 million Brexit fund for farmers will be subject to preconditions and-or specific categories of farmers such as beef finishers as has been reported; if the fund will be available to farmers at any stage along the beef chain whether calf, weanlings, store or finished; or steer, bull, heifer or...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering Standards (18 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 523. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken to address the long outstanding issues regarding the mechanical grading and trimming of carcasses of slaughtered cattle in factories since reports of inaccuracies first emerged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25186/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (18 Jun 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 608. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the possibility of reintroducing an automatic household benefit package entitlement for carers who have been approved for the carer's allowance payment subsequent to 2012 and who do not reside with the person for whom they are caring will be investigated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25070/19]