Results 5,841-5,860 of 18,593 for speaker:Michael Creed
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: It would be hard to see how we could get EID recognised as a welfare issue for sheep. I do not think that is possible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: Senator Mulherin also asked who bears the cost. I appreciate that the cost is borne by the farmer and I have never hidden from that. If costs are reduced along the line and that results in diminished costs elsewhere, then there is a likelihood that some of the saving will be passed back to farmers. This should help as well. It is not a silver bullet but it should help with market access....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: The hen harrier scheme was the first time we had a scheme of that nature.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: I gather approximately 4,000 landowners are in the designated lands between all the various regions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: I understand the scheme targets approximately 2,000 participants.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: That is not the information available to me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: I imagine numerous parliamentary questions have been answered on the matter but we can get the committee information on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: The first of the three year approvals will expire later this year. We will get a handle on the number of those that are not proceeding or have not proceeded. This includes shorter term approvals that have not been completed. We are into the six months approvals. The numbers that have not proceeded are low indeed. Expired approvals to date amount to a little under €1 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: The Deputy is engaged in selective quotation. The press statement to which Deputy McConalogue keeps alluding states:I firmly believe it will deliver enormous dividends to rural Ireland, to the 30,000 Irish farmers we hope to see join GLAS in its first phase and to 20,000 more who will join in subsequent years. That is what the then Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney said at the time. I quote...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: If the Deputy would let me quote from the PQ reply from Deputy Coveney, it covers the point the Deputy makes. He said the total expenditure envisaged for GLAS measure 10 over the life of the scheme was €1.4 billion, including an allocation of some €390 million in transitional funding for remaining commitments arising from the agri-environment measures in the 2007 to 2013 rural...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: It was 29 September 2015.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: As I said in my opening remarks, the devil can cite scripture for his own purpose.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: What the Deputy is putting is a skewed and slanted interpretation of the Minister's words. GLAS was always envisaged to be a 50,000 applicant scheme and that has been achieved. We are going around in circles. To an extent it is a dialogue of the deaf. It has been a very successful scheme. The commitment is a €160 million overspend which reflects the level of our commitment. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: It is approved under the rural development programme to which we put in additional Exchequer funding.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: In the context of this issue of €100 million, we sought approval for the scheme on the basis of a potential liability of up to €100 million should everyone apply for every eligible ewe. That did not happen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: It is entirely funded by the Exchequer and it is approved. The ANC is a rural development programme and it is open to the State to fund at a higher rate. We have put additional money into the ANC and we have put additional Exchequer funds into the RDP to fund a sheep welfare scheme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: It is. The rural development programme is part of the budgetary process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: On an annual basis, we have to secure approval for that. We have secured a commitment for the sheep welfare scheme and for the ANC. The premise of all of this was that we were not going to draw down the funding available to us in Europe. The point I make is that every last penny will be drawn down and we have put more money into the RDP than was necessary to draw down every last penny to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: I do not know if the line the Deputy is pursuing is a criticism of us putting more money in.