Results 10,161-10,180 of 18,593 for speaker:Michael Creed
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: Yes.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: It is an accounting process. The EU, until it signs off on the various schemes, retains 5%. In closing out the 2007 to 2013 scheme, the refund was expected in 2017 but it came during the last days of 2016. To take the example of a scheme like REPS, we would have paid out the funding under that scheme. The EU would have withheld 5% and once the EU had gone through its processes, it would...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: We had no certainty as to when the Commission would pay us. If we had put a figure into the 2016 Estimates and the refund had not come through, we would have been before the select committee with a Supplementary Estimate. It is accountancy. It is money that we had paid out to individual applicants but which the Commission only refunded to us once it has signed off on our books.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: Yes.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: As I said to the Deputy previously, where there is a way, there is a will. It is not an easy one to deal with in terms of being able to audit and verify something for which the Department has no records. That said, negotiations between farm organisations and my officials are ongoing in terms of the details of any scheme.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: Even in the event of a scheme being devised, it will have to take its place in the queue in terms of the payment arrangements that must be put in place.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: The Deputy should be under no illusion that if there is a scheme, it will be extraordinarily complex. It will involve a lot of paperwork to validate claims. It will not be an easy task.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: What was the first payment the Deputy mentioned?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: The market volatility payment relates to the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland. Does the figure amount to €13.9 million?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: Where is it mentioned?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: Is the Deputy referring to a programme or group?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: We have dealt with that issue.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: From which document is the Deputy quoting?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: I am advised that the item refers to the compensation scheme in 2016.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: No. I am advised that it represents the last payment under the 2015 market support scheme.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: Yes.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: Is the Deputy referring to the current scheme?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: We are awaiting approval from the Commission to make payments.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: No. It is an EU-funded scheme.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: We do not yet have approval.