Results 9,741-9,760 of 16,057 for speaker:Mary Coughlan
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: The proposals for an Animal Welfare, Recording and Breeding Scheme for Suckler Herds were originally submitted to the European Commission in December 2006 as part of the Draft Rural Development Programme 2007-2013. In discussions with the Commission on the RDP they requested that nationally funded measures, such as this Scheme, be removed from the Programme. My department therefore prepared...
- Written Answers — Rural Development: Rural Development (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: I am fully committed to reducing unnecessary bureaucracy in the administration of the Common Agriculture Policy and one of my main priorities is to pursue simplification of procedures at farm level. The adoption by Ireland of full decoupling under the Single Payment Scheme, thereby replacing six EU subsidy schemes each with complex application, qualification and implementation procedures,...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: Payment in this case issued on 12 June.
- Written Answers — Animal Imports: Animal Imports (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: The information sought by the Deputy is set out in the table. The names of the circuses to which the animals were ultimately destined have been withheld due to the commercial nature of the information sought. Date No. & Description of Animals Country of Origin* 9/1/2006 2 Elephants Italy 27/1/2006 1 African Elephant Germany 2/6/2006 1 Rhino Northern Ireland 11/9/2006 1 Elephant Germany...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: Payment in this case issued on 14 May.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: The records of my Department show the person named having received payments under both the Single Payment Scheme and the Arable Aid Scheme. Under the Single Payment Scheme, the following payments issued to the person named: â¬46.38 issued on 23 March 2007, cashed on 4 April 2007; â¬556.56 issued on 4 December 2006, cashed 13 December 2006; â¬556.56 issued on 16 October 2006, cashed on 7...
- Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: Payment of the Early Retirement pension to the person named will begin within the next week. Arrears of pension back to 28 December 2006, the date of valid application, will be included with the first payment.
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: My Department's current policy is to inform candidates of their proposed location when offering promotion to the grade of Agricultural Inspector.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 26 April 2006. As part of the control procedures under EU legislation, governing the Single Payment Scheme, the application was randomly selected for and was the subject of an eligibility and cross compliance inspection. The findings of the inspection of 12 September 2006 was that...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: An application under the 2006 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 19 April 2006. In accordance with the provisions of the EU Regulations governing the Single Payment Scheme, the application was randomly selected for inspection. The inspection, which was carried out on 17 November 2006, confirmed the detail of the application as submitted by the person named. Full...
- Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: It was necessary to suspend payment of the Early Retirement pension to the person named in October 2006, because her farming transferee disposed of a portion of the pension lands. This could have been a breach of the Scheme requirements. On investigation, however, my officials established that the lands disposed of had been replaced with an equivalent area, so no breach of the Scheme had...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: The person named and his brother had been farming together. In the year 2000 they decided to apply to have one brother's name removed from the herd number. This was done in 2001. The reference years for the Single Payment Scheme were 2000 to 2002. Some Single Payment entitlements were in the joint names of the two brothers and the remainder was in the name of the person named. Arrangements...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: The position is that the Single Payment Scheme is applicable to farmers who farmed during the three -year reference period 2000 â 2002, who drew down livestock or Arable Aid premia in at least one of those years and who continued to farm in 2005. The Single Payment Scheme entitlements established for individual farmers therefore is a true reflection of their farming activity and premia...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: Payments under the Farm Waste Management Scheme are progressing satisfactorily with over â¬31.7 million spent, to date, under the Scheme in 2007 compared to â¬21.3 million during the whole of the 2006 calendar year.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: Due to the significant increase in applications under the Farm Waste Management Scheme, I introduced revised procedures in order to speed up the process of issuing approvals under the Scheme. These include the streamlining of administrative procedures for the approval of applications and the release to applicants of my Department's Standard Costings used to assess the financial implications...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 461 and 463 together. The person named applied in September 2005 to transfer entitlements by way of Private Contract Clause (Sale) under the provisions of Article 17 of EU Commission Regulation 795/2004. He subsequently applied to trade entitlements under Article 46 of EU Council Regulation 1782/2003. The case was complicated by the fact that the person named...
- Written Answers — Commonage Division: Commonage Division (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: The allotment of one of the three shares on the commonage to the person named is in accordance with the completion of a scheme prepared by the former Land Commission. One of my Inspectors recently visited the person but he was not home on that occasion. He subsequently spoke to him on the telephone and will be in touch with him again prior to the operation of the scheme.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: The person concerned is an applicant under the Farm Waste Management Scheme. Payment will be made by my Department to the applicant shortly.
- Written Answers — Registration of Title: Registration of Title (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: The land the subject of this question was vested by the former Land Commission in 1936 which resulted in the opening of the original Folio, from which the Folios mentioned have devolved. Ownership subsequently changed in 1954 in a private transaction. It was subsequently transferred to the current Folio in another private transaction in 1985. No mention appears to have been made to the small...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jun 2007)
Mary Coughlan: The higher rate of grant under the Installation Aid Scheme is available to applicants set-up in farming for the first time between 1 May and 31 December 2006 provided they meet the relevant conditions of the Scheme. The person concerned has only submitted an initial application (IAS 1) under the Scheme and has not yet submitted an application for payment (IAS 2). Final verification of the...