Results 11,201-11,220 of 16,057 for speaker:Mary Coughlan
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (17 Oct 2006)
Mary Coughlan: I understand that documentary evidence of farm income is outstanding in this case.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (17 Oct 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person concerned is an applicant for grant-aid under the Installation Aid Scheme. His application for payment (IAS 2 form) is currently being examined within my Department and the outcome will be notified to the person concerned as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (17 Oct 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application for an allocation of entitlements from the 2005 Single Payment Scheme National Reserve under Categories A and D. Category A caters for farmers who inherited land or received land free of charge or for a nominal sum from a farmer who had retired or died by 16 May 2005 and who had leased out his/her holding to a third party during the reference...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (17 Oct 2006)
Mary Coughlan: There was an issue relating to the sale of lands in this case. The matter has now been clarified and processing of the application will be finalised with a view to any payment due issuing as soon as possible.
- Food Labelling. (17 Oct 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The Deputy needs to go out to more restaurants.
- Afforestation Programme. (17 Oct 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The Deputy could sow a few trees.
- Direct Payment Schemes. (17 Oct 2006)
Mary Coughlan: Cross-compliance involves two key elements, namely, a requirement for farmers to comply with 18 statutory management requirements set down in EU legislation on the environment, food safety, animal health and welfare and plant health, and a requirement to maintain farms in good agricultural and environmental conditions. If an applicant is found to be non-compliant, sanctions provided for in...
- Direct Payment Schemes. (17 Oct 2006)
Mary Coughlan: It is important to state that a comparative analysis of the decoupled and the coupled payment schemes shows that in 2004 there were 18,000 inspections and in 2006 there will be eight. That is a significant reduction in inspections. On the basis of an appreciation, Deputy Naughten is correct in stating that there are more part-time farmers, which of itself can impose difficulties, and I...
- Direct Payment Schemes. (17 Oct 2006)
Mary Coughlan: There are issues in that regard coming from our part of the country on the movement of animals about which we must be careful to ensure there are no disease issues. We had grave concerns, as Deputy Crawford will be aware, about disease issues in County Fermanagh, for example, which would have significant implications for us in the Border counties. What I am saying is the rate of inspection...
- Direct Payment Schemes. (17 Oct 2006)
Mary Coughlan: I expected a reaction on the other side of the Houseââ
- Direct Payment Schemes. (17 Oct 2006)
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- Food Safety Standards. (17 Oct 2006)
Mary Coughlan: I have been in regular contact with Commissioner Kyprianou on the issue of Brazilian beef and he has assured me that the Commission will not hesitate to take the appropriate protection measures if a product, imported from a third country or produced in the domestic market, represents a risk to the health of EU consumers, livestock or plants. Indeed, the Commission official who attended the...
- Food Safety Standards. (17 Oct 2006)
Mary Coughlan: I read with interest the debate that took place between all the members of the committee with DG SANCO, and Commissioner Kyprianou has put in place a number of initiatives that will be evaluated in January. I took the opportunity to express concerns with Commissioner Kyprianou, both in speaking with him at Council and in forwarding to him all sorts of documentation and press articles, to...
- Food Safety Standards. (17 Oct 2006)
Mary Coughlan: It is on that basis that I will continue to express concerns. Deputy Upton probably read a retort by the Brazilian authorities to something I said during the summer on this issue. Equivalence and equity are the two English words which one is citing. Assurances are given by the competent authority, be it the Commission or the FVO, on the safety of meat. I will continue to raise this issue,...
- Energy Policy. (17 Oct 2006)
Mary Coughlan: We do not have time to go to Australia. We will be busy for a while.
- Milk Quota. (17 Oct 2006)
Mary Coughlan: As the Deputy will be aware, the current milk quota arrangements were extended until the end of the 2014-15 milk quota year as part of the 2003 Luxembourg agreement on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. A review will take place in 2008 and any proposals submitted by the European Commission will be considered by the Council of Ministers at that time. Should the Commission come...
- Milk Quota. (17 Oct 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The future for young farmers will be on this side of the House because the negativity expressed by the Opposition in farming circles has been such that it would depress anybody. Given the priority afforded to the milk industry in this country from a production and manufacturing perspective, I decided, against the background of the world trade talks and the fact Chile is now our competitor,...
- Milk Quota. (17 Oct 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The Deputy can take it any way he wants but I did not suggest milk would be â¬4 or â¬5 a gallon. What I thought appropriate in the context of the exchange was that, first, the fundamentals of ring-fencing would not move, a policy with which the Deputy will agree, given the importance of the dairy sector in the Cavan-Monaghan area, as well as my area. Second, one of the frustrations...
- Milk Quota. (17 Oct 2006)
Mary Coughlan: I indicated that all of these decisions must be made against the background of what the Commissioner gave as her personal view when she came to Ireland three weeks ago, namely, that the future of quotas was perhaps untenable. Therefore, we, including farmers, must make decisions on the basis of that background â in other words, that we do not have, as the Deputy stated, quota rebels. This...
- Milk Quota. (17 Oct 2006)
Mary Coughlan: Through the co-op.