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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 767. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason there is no mention of funds for fishery local action groups in the Leader allocations; his plans to dispense with these groups; if there is money left over from the 2007 to 2013 Leader programme; if so, the amount of money; and his plans for same. [13966/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 799. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount allocated to each local authority in 2014 and 2015 for the adaptation and-or extension works to local authority houses for disabled persons. [14585/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 800. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount sought by local authorities in 2014 and 2015 for adaptation and-or extension works to local authority houses for disabled persons. [14586/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 801. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of applications for adaptation and-or extension works to local authority houses for disabled persons, received by each local authority in 2014 and 2015. [14587/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 802. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of adaptation and-or extension works to local authority houses for disabled persons carried out in each local authority area for 2014 and 2015. [14588/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (15 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 803. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of applications for adaptation and-or extension works to local authority houses for disabled persons pending completion in each local authority in 2014 and 2015. [14589/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (14 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: I thank the witnesses. This meeting is long overdue. All of us who represent rural communities, particularly where there is a great deal of marginal land, have not quite been inundated but have received a large amount of representations concerning the land eligibility problem. Everyone agrees that many people have found themselves having penalties imposed as a result of doing what they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (14 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: The solution is to be found in the room. It is coming across loud and clear. The problem is that there has been an abdication of responsibility. The expectation is that the Minister and the Department will draw up the criteria. However, the witnesses know bloody well that if they do so it would not be in the interests of farmers. A working group must find a cohesive and co-ordinated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (14 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: Mr. Joyce referred to traditional farming practices and how destocking undermined that position. The beginning of the problem was the removal from eligibility of land that had been destocked. Traditional farming practices changed and the whole landscape changed in many areas. As part of a way of resolving this long-term, would restocking help to claw back part of land eligibility?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Stormont House Agreement: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (2 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: I thank the Minister for attending here today and making his presentation. At the outset of his presentation he refers to the involvement of both Governments and the necessity for them to have a hands-on approach in what are at times delicate situations surrounding the implementation of the agreement. The Minister is involved in putting in place an implementation plan for the outstanding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Stormont House Agreement: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (2 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: I wish to comment on what is referred to as Border criminality, fuel laundering and the dumping of sludge. It is much wider than that. There is extortion and people have been badly injured. Recently one person, Frank McCabe Jnr, was blinded and lost his eye when he was removing a derogatory poster when he was going to work at 6 a.m. Another person was shot in the south Armagh area. There...

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: The Government has given them a veto.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (1 Apr 2015)

Martin Ferris: 73. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to prevent a person (details supplied) in County Galway, who has recently been convicted of animal cruelty, from again taking in animals that are at serious risk of neglect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13478/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (31 Mar 2015)

Martin Ferris: The Minister's reply is very informative and that message must be conveyed to the public. There are organisations that will try to run an agenda, through scaremongering tactics and otherwise, in respect of preventing the potential that can be realised as a result of the abolition of the quota. There is a similar question from Deputy Fitzmaurice but it relates to the beef sector.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rural Development Plan (31 Mar 2015)

Martin Ferris: Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (31 Mar 2015)

Martin Ferris: 149. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if targets under Harvest 2020 and Agri Food 2025 are compatible with European Union targets for the reduction of carbon emissions; his estimation of the reduction of the dairy herd in the State to meet those environmental targets; the fines expected to be imposed by the European Union if our dairy herd does not reduce within the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (31 Mar 2015)

Martin Ferris: Are the targets under Harvest 2020 and Agri Food 2025 compatible with European Union targets for the reduction of carbon emissions? What is the Minister's estimation of the reduction of the dairy herd in this State to meet those environmental targets? What fines are expected to be imposed by the European Union if the dairy herd does not reduce within the specified period? I ask the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (31 Mar 2015)

Martin Ferris: I thank the Minister for his reply. I am sure the Minister read the article in the farming section of today's Irish Independent. An Taisce claims that with a 20% target for reduction in emissions from 2005 to 2020, only 2% has been achieved so far, meaning that 18% is still outstanding. It quotes the Minister, as saying there will be a bigger burden on other sectors in order to meet that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (31 Mar 2015)

Martin Ferris: 157. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on progress in the review of the quality pricing system operated in the beef industry, as agreed at the beef round table talks last year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12812/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (31 Mar 2015)

Martin Ferris: 159. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the recently published rich list which includes the names of Irish beef barons, his views on the latest reduction in steer and heifer prices being imposed by the factories on Irish farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12813/15]