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- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)
Brendan Smith: The numbers of payments made in County Waterford each year since 2005 under the Farm Waste Management, Alternative Enterprises and Farm Improvement Schemes in respect of fencing and handling facilities are set out in the following table:- Year Payments 2005 7 2006 9 2007 13 2008 5 2009 19 2010 (end-Nov) 8 Total 61 In addition, grant-aid has been made available since 1 November 2010...
- Written Answers — Fishing Vessel Licences: Fishing Vessel Licences (9 Dec 2010)
Brendan Smith: The following are the number of sea fishing boat licences issued in respect of vessels owned by persons with addresses in Co Waterford for the years 2005-2010:- Year No. of Licences 2005 60 2006 72 2007 67 2008 72 2009 84 2010 95 The Deputy should be aware that the number of licences issued in a given year may differ from the number of vessels operational at any given time for a...
- Written Answers — Fishing Vessel Licences: Fishing Vessel Licences (9 Dec 2010)
Brendan Smith: The national sea fishing fleet currently comprises 2,129 vessels. 82 vessels are currently licensed and registered to persons with addresses in Co.Waterford.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)
Brendan Smith: This is a matter for Bord Iascaigh Mhara, as the implementing agency for grant aid programmes for the fishing industry, funded through my Department. I will ask BIM to respond directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (9 Dec 2010)
Brendan Smith: Operational aspects in relation to sea fisheries control operations are a matter for the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA). I have asked the SFPA to respond directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)
Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 20 April 2010. This application was selected for and was the subject of a Ground Eligibility and Full Cross Compliance Inspection. The inspection process is completed and the application has now been fully processed. Payment under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme issued on 7...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)
Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 5 May 2010. This application was selected for and was the subject of a Ground Eligibility and Full Cross Compliance 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 (9 Dec 2010)
Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 8 May 2010. An Advance payment under Single Payment Scheme issued to the person named on 18 October on the clear eligible area. However, some of the land parcels listed on the application required re-digitisation. This process is now complete and the balancing payments due...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)
Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 12 May 2010. Payments under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme commenced nationally on 18 October 2010. The person named submitted an application with 10 land parcels, 5 of which required re-digitisation. Payments to the person named were made under the Single Payment Scheme in respect of the clear land...
- Written Answers — Departmental Contracts: Departmental Contracts (9 Dec 2010)
Brendan Smith: My Department in consultation with the Department of Finance have been examining an application from Bord Iascaigh Mhara to extend the contracts of two Dingle Ice Plant operators in the context of the Employment Control Framework.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)
Brendan Smith: A Single Payment Scheme application was received from the person named on 7 May 2010. The application submitted did not include a herd number, as the person named had not been assigned a herd number at that time. Following the allocation of a herd number the application was further processed. It was established that the land declared required digitising and this process is now complete. The...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)
Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on the 20 April 2010. This application was selected for a Ground Eligibility and Full Cross Compliance inspection. The inspection process is complete and the results are now being processed. During the course of the Ground Eligibility inspection, discrepancies were found with some of the parcels applied on and...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 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. This process is underway and my objective is to make all payments for 2010 as...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)
Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 15 March 2010. This application was selected for and was the subject of a Ground Eligibility and Animal Identification Inspection. The inspection process is completed and the application has now been fully processed. Payment under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme and Single...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)
Brendan Smith: I can confirm that the balancing payments under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme began issuing on 1 December, in line with the very ambitious payments targets I set for my Department in early October. Payments under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme have been ongoing since they commenced on 22 September. I am confident that, by year-end, payments to farmers nationally will have exceeded â¬1.35...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)
Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 23 March 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...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)
Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 5 May 2010. This application consisted of 11 land parcels, eight of which require re-digitisation. Payments under the Single Payment Scheme were made in respect of eligible land parcels on 18 October 2010 and 1 December 2010 respectively. An advance payment under the...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (8 Dec 2010)
Brendan Smith: An application under 2010 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 13 May 2010. The 50% advance payment, which issued on 18 October 2010, was on the basis of the land cleared at that stage, as a number of parcels declared required digitising. Balancing payments under the scheme, which commenced 1 December, would, in normal circumstances, be confined to those whose...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (8 Dec 2010)
Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 23 April 2010. Payments under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme and Disadvantaged Areas Scheme have commenced nationally on 18 October 2010 and 22 September 2010 respectively. The person named submitted an application with 8 land parcels, 5 of which required re-digitisation. My...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (8 Dec 2010)
Brendan Smith: The Department's records indicate that in 2007, the amount of nitrogen from livestock manure applied to land on the holding of the person named above (including that deposited by animals) was 269.46 kgs per hectare, which exceeded the limit of 170 kgs per hectare set down in the Nitrates Regulations. My Department wrote to the person named on two occasions in June and July 2008 notifying him...