Results 11,101-11,120 of 18,496 for speaker:Brendan Smith

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 30 April 2010. Payments under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme have commenced nationally on 18 October 2010. The application from the person named was submitted with land parcels identified as requiring re-digitisation. My Department has now completed this process. The advance, interim and final...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Area Scheme was received from the person named on 26 April 2010. The 50% advance payment under the Single Payment Scheme, which issued on 18 October, the further 30% payment under the same Scheme, which issued on 1 December, as well as the 75% advance payment under the Disadvantaged Area Scheme which issued on 13 September,...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 12 May 2010. A number of the land parcels listed on the application required re-digitisation. Following completion of this digitising, one of the parcels was identified as being over-claimed. The applicant was written to in this regard on 23 September and a reply to this letter...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 17 May 2010. This application was selected for and was the subject of a Ground Eligibility and Animal Identification Inspection. The inspection process is complete and the results are now being processed. Under EU regulations governing the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme and the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 13 May 2010. This application was selected for and was the subject of a Ground Eligibility and Animal Identification Inspection. The inspection process is complete and the results are now being processed. Under EU regulations governing the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme and the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: The EU Regulations governing REPS 4 and other area-based schemes provide that payments issue in two instalments. The first instalment of 75% may be paid once all administrative checks on all applications, as well as cross-checks against areas declared on Single Payment Scheme applications, have been completed. These checks have now been completed and payment will issue to the person named...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: REPS 4 is a measure under the current 2007-13 Rural Development Programme and accordingly is subject to EU Regulations which require detailed administrative checks on all applications to be completed before any payments can issue. Queries have arisen during the administrative checks on the plan of the person named which have required further examination. Officials in my Department are...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 7 May 2010. This application was selected for and was the subject of a Ground Eligibility and Animal Identification Inspection. The inspection process is complete and the results are now being processed. Under EU regulations governing the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme and the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 29 April 2010. The 50% advance payment under the Single Payment Scheme, which issued on 18 October and the further 30% payment under the same Scheme, which issued on 1 December, were on the basis of those parcels cleared for payment at that stage, as a number of other land parcels listed on the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (14 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: Under the provisions of the governing EU Regulations, payments under the Single Farm Payment may be made only in respect of eligible land and applicants under the Scheme are obliged annually to declare to my Department the land parcels available to them. Details of the eligible area of the land parcels are recorded on my Department's Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS). It is also...

Written Answers — Harbours and Piers: Harbours and Piers (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: Greencastle harbour is owned by Donegal County Council and responsibility for the maintenance and development of the harbour rests with that local authority in the first instance. My Department has, however, in recent years, project managed works on phase one of the Greencastle Harbour development project on behalf of Donegal County Council as well as providing funding. Any application...

Written Answers — Water Quality: Water Quality (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: Coillte Teoranta was established as a private commercial company under the Forestry Act, 1988 and day-to-day operational matters, such as harvesting and associated work, is the responsibility of the company. I understand from Coillte that, in this case, discolouration of water occurred after extremely heavy rainfall and before any extraction work took place in the area feeding the reservoir...

Written Answers — State Bodies: State Bodies (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: All of the State Bodies have submitted Annual Reports and Accounts for the past three years and, with the exception of seven reports for 2009, have been laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas. My Department monitors the pay of CEOs of the State Bodies under its aegis to ensure compliance with Government guidelines. In addition Statements of Assurance are submitted by the Chairmen of these...

Written Answers — Live Exports: Live Exports (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: There are no new EU requirements on live exports. The position is that Member States are legally obliged under Council Directive 64/432 on intra-community trade to certify, among other things, that bovines and pigs being exported for breeding or production have been on a single holding during the 30 day period prior to export or, if such animals are younger than 30 days, that they have been...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: The payments made to farmers in Waterford under the Single payment Scheme since 2005 were as follows: COUNTY YEAR NUMBERS PAID AMOUNT PAID Waterford 2010 2,356 €35,184,761.30 Waterford 2009 2,421 €40,592,836.60 Waterford 2008 2,436 €40,763,082.60 Waterford 2007 2,450 €40,442,978.60 Waterford 2006 2,463 €40,943,297.30 Waterford 2005 2,504 €38,241,653.40 Payments to...

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Areas Scheme: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: The payments made to farmers in Waterford under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme since 2005 were as follows: COUNTY YEAR NUMBERS PAID AMOUNT PAID Waterford 2010 1,336 €2,876,623.22 Waterford 2009 1,433 €3,243,237.68 Waterford 2008 1,470 €3,842,174.06 Waterford 2007 1,477 €3,871,046.76 Waterford 2006 1,421 €3,793,091.85 Waterford 2005 1,424 €3,054,660.95 Payments to farmers...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: Ireland's first National Action Programme under the Nitrates Directive was transposed into Irish law by the European Communities (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2006, SI No 378 of 2006. These Regulations were revised by the European Communities (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2009, S.I. No. 101 of 2009. Prosecutions for...

Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: The Farm Waste Management Scheme was introduced under the aegis of the 2000-2006 National Development Plan and therefore closed for new applications at the end of 2006. The numbers of payments (including instalment payments) made in County Waterford each year since 2005 under the Scheme are set out in the following table:- Year Payments 2005 70 2006 67 2007 116 2008 225 2009 478...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: The Suckler Cow Welfare Scheme was established in 2008 and payments have issued in respect of 2008 and 2009 born animals where the required measures were completed. Under the 2008 Scheme 656 farmers in County Waterford have been paid to date a total of €1,550,419, in respect of 19,772 animals. Under the 2009 Scheme, 510 applicants have been paid to date a total of €552,105 in respect of...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: The Upland Sheep Payment was implemented in Ireland in 2009. Payments amounting to €95,790.13 were made to 197 farmers in Waterford. The Grassland Sheep Scheme replaced the Upland Sheep Payment in 2010. There was no specific direct aid scheme in place for sheep farmers prior to 2009 but sheep farmers benefited from payments under both the Single Payment Scheme and Disadvantaged Areas Scheme.