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Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (14 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: Question 402: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding persons aged 50-55 employed on community employment schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5110/06]

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (14 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: Question 404: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to review community employment schemes in relation to core services provided to persons with disabilities; his views on core funding in these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5119/06]

Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (14 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: Question 487: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when people who have applied under the national reserve for the single payment scheme will be notified of their entitlements. [5485/06]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress which has been made on the long-term initiative for rent supplement tenants as announced on 4 July 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4660/06]

Social Welfare Benefits. (9 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the services and supports, financial and otherwise, his Department provides for young carers in the 15 to 17 year age group, in particular those who have left formal education to take up full-time care duties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4662/06]

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: The Minister of State should ask Deputy Ned O'Keeffe about food labelling.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: Having listened to both sides of the argument, I want to put one proposition to the Minister. She is a very nice person but she has not——

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: I want to give the Minister an invitation.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: I want to issue an open invitation to the Minister for Agriculture and Food to come to the heart of my constituency——

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: ——without any councillors, backbenchers or anybody else protecting her. If she comes to my constituency I will give her just one example of what is happening on the land. I am genuine about this because I come from a background where we love what we do but young farmers are fleeing the land. Agricultural colleges have been closed down by this Administration.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: In my county alone, two agricultural colleges have closed down. People are scared to death by the nitrates directive. In my parish alone, there were 13 pig farmers three years ago but now there are only two. This is due to the administration of the Government. I would like to bring the Minister to meet these people. Only 30 minutes ago I got a call from one of them who is giving up farming....

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: The Minister does not know what is happening and is afraid to face up to the reality.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: The Minister is driving them off the land.

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (7 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: Question 217: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary has been denied the inpatient assessment in an adolescent psychiatric unit recommended by the person's doctors; and the further reason the family has been denied respite care. [3955/06]

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: The nitrates directive will have a severe and damaging impact on agriculture and as a result of the directive there is a plan to jail some farmers who care for the land. Farmers have been custodians of the land for generations and have farmed and protected it. Families have fought over land and farmers have worked hard to maintain its condition. The Government has signed off on something that...

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: Is there any chance the Government will renegotiate this? Our farmers and the agriculture industry are up in arms on the issue but nobody is listening to them. Is there any possibility some parts of the directive could be renegotiated?

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: I ask those who were there and made a mess of it to stay out of it. There are severe consequences to this directive and I ask the Tánaiste to raise the issue at Cabinet to see if something can be done about it.

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: Will the Government reconsider the jailing of people?

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (2 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak about this Bill. I am very concerned about the impact of this legislation on consumer prices. The submissions upon which the Minister chiefly relied to make his proposed changes to the competition legislation came from the Competition Authority and the consumer strategy group. The consumer strategy group argued that if the Minister revoked the...

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Tom Hayes: I thank the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Martin, for coming before the House to listen to Deputy Healy, and I making a case for Carrick-on-Suir. As the Minister will be aware, it was announced today that 42 jobs will be lost in SRAM Ireland, which is located in the town, with a further 11 jobs set to be transferred elsewhere in the region. This is a major blow to the...