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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Milk Quota (7 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: I do not understand how a milk producer 110 miles away from Clongowes Wood supplied Clongowes Wood with 500,000 litres of milk which in turn supplied Glanbia and the outcome of all this was that no prosecution took place. What is quite clear to me is that there was sleight of hand with 500,000 litres of milk being transferred 110 miles to Clongowes Wood which in turn sold that milk to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (7 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: 9. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason, if his Department is encouraging farmers to use controlled burning as an option for land management, that when a green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme planner recommends controlled burning, it results in his Department deeming land as potentially ineligible for payment under the basic payment scheme and the natural...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector (7 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: 17. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on concerns regarding the decline in profitability in the dairy sector; the European Union's refusal to increase intervention prices; and the action he proposes to take on this matter. [34216/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (7 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: 18. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on his Department using the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme as a means to reduce participants’ claimable area and that of their neighbours who are not participating in the scheme. [34212/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (7 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: 19. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the list of stocking rate calculations for commonages; respond to criticism that his Department officials are unable to provide clear guidance as to whether the stock that is carried on the commonage should include all stock, from both green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme, GLAS, and non-GLAS participants;...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (7 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: 25. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason if green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme planners are qualified by his Department to make the maximum eligible area assessment, they are insisting on re-assessing the planner’s reduction with a departmental inspection. [34215/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (7 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: 119. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown of the number of community Gardaí in the Kerry division; and where they have been stationed for the years 2010 to October 2015. [34879/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (7 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: 120. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the savings from Garda Síochána station closures in the Kerry division since January 2011. [34880/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Sector: Irish Farmers Association (6 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: I thank Mr. Downey and Mr. Lynskey for their presentations today. Those of us who come from the west will fully understand and appreciate their contributions, suggestions and ideas. One realises, particularly when one comes from hilly land and areas of mountain ranges, that people must make a living out of land that is far inferior to other parts of the country. Survival is down to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Sector: Irish Farmers Association (6 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: Mr. Kinsella said that there was need for an agreed position in order for trade to be uninhibited. I assume he is talking about an agreed position among farmer representatives in both the Twenty-six Counties and the Six Counties, as well as political recognition between the Minister, Michelle O'Neill, MLA, and the Minister, Deputy Coveney.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Sector: Irish Farmers Association (6 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: In regard to what we, as a committee, can do to advance this issue, it would be in our interest to meet the IFA's counterparts in the North and for the IFA to address the committee in the Six Counties. There is a need for that type of joined up approach. Everybody appears to be in favour of resolving the issue but nothing is happening, despite everybody's best efforts.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (6 Oct 2015)

Martin Ferris: 482. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the Kerry branch of Arthritis Ireland has offered to fund the position of a rheumatologist nurse at Kerry General Hospital for a period of two years, on condition that the Health Service Executive will continue to fund the position after the two-year period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34020/15]

Social Housing Policy: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Sep 2015)

Martin Ferris: It is arrogance.

Social Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2015)

Martin Ferris: All over my constituency in County Kerry and all over this State, there are more people without a roof over their heads than ever. An unprecedented number of people are coming to my three constituency offices, in Kilorglin, Tralee and Listowel, for help because they have lost their homes, are in fear of losing their homes or are part of the hidden homeless, those who are sleeping on couches...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Outstanding Legacy Issues affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Martin Ferris: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I was struck by what Sr. Maura Twohig said about her parents protecting her from the past and how it was still in her subconscious and at some stage it emerged. That brings us back to a description of victims: victims of the state, victims of conflict, victims of discrimination and victims of sectarianism. I was 18 years old in 1970. I can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Outstanding Legacy Issues affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Martin Ferris: I thank the witnesses for their presentations, which were very informative and challenging for many. People trying to seek justice for their loved ones are to be commended and supported. I have not written an autobiography. A biography was written about me and I certainly did not say to anybody that there were people in the Prison Service or the Garda who were supportive of the IRA....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Milk Quota (22 Sep 2015)

Martin Ferris: 480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received the final report from the Chief State Solicitor on the milk quota issue (details supplied). [30509/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Discards (22 Sep 2015)

Martin Ferris: 481. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to add representation to the discard implementation group. [30510/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Martin Ferris: I thank Mr. Cronin for his presentation and I welcome the witnesses. This outstanding issue which has not yet been resolved is an awful injustice. The number of people initially envisaged to be affected was 4,400, and 378 have received compensation for part of the period involved. It is an awful injustice to farmers on very marginal land, who have no income from it whatsoever. Their lands...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Martin Ferris: I am looking through the questions and answers, I think there are 21, from the National Parks and Wildlife Service prior to the scheme. In one of them, a person asks if he is entitled to any compensation for the designation. The response is that the Government is committed to the payment of a fair and proper level of compensation. A landowner may seek compensation for actual losses...