Results 11,801-11,820 of 18,326 for speaker:Brendan Smith

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

Brendan Smith: I have arranged to have an official of my Department's Single Payment Unit make direct contact with the person named regarding this matter.

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

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Area Scheme was received from the person named on the 15 April 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. The 75% advance payment under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Oct 2010)

Brendan Smith: The following is the information requested Report recommendation Annual saving identified in Report Progress to date, saving achieved 1 Transfer export promotion function of An Bord Bia and BIM to Enterprise Ireland; transfer BIM's other functions to DAFF and consider same for An Bord Bia €7.3m Partially implemented; BIM marketing functions transferred to An Bord Bia.COFORD integrated...

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

Brendan Smith: By way of transfer on 5 May 2006 the applicant received 16.64 Single Payment entitlements without land by inheritance (gift). These entitlements would appear to have been established under the provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No 1792/2003 on the land claimed by the applicant to draw down his payments from 2006 onwards. The applicant originally submitted a claim on the commonage in...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (13 Oct 2010)

Brendan Smith: The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority is an independent statutory authority and hence the internal financial management is a matter for the Authority in which the Minister does not have a role. However, the Department has forwarded the request to the SFPA for its consideration and for a direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (13 Oct 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 23 February 2010. Payments under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme commenced on 22 September, with an advance payment of 75% issuing in respect of those parcels cleared for payment at that stage. The application of the person named is now processed and payment will issue shortly....

Written Answers — Animal Diseases: Animal Diseases (13 Oct 2010)

Brendan Smith: There are 1,083 herds in the Wicklow East region, 75% of which has been tested to date this year. The number of new herd restrictions is 127 compared with 77 at the same time last year. The number of reactors disclosed since 1 January is 641, compared with 365 for the same period last year. The average number of reactors per thousand tests in Wicklow East is, at 8 reactors per thousand tests,...

Written Answers — Animal Diseases: Animal Diseases (13 Oct 2010)

Brendan Smith: My Department's Laboratory Service provides a range of diagnostic services for the tuberculosis eradication programme, including culture and/or histopathological examination of samples, tests on blood samples to aid the diagnosis to TB and Spoligotyping, to determine the strain type for M. bovis isolates. This latter service is used in particular for research and investigation of TB outbreaks...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (13 Oct 2010)

Brendan Smith: All payments for 2009 have issued except in cases where there are outstanding matters to be resolved. The EU Regulations governing the Organic Farming Schemes provide that payments issue in two instalments, the first of which, amounting to 75% of the payment, may be released once all administrative checks have been completed. The remaining 25% may be paid once all on-farm checks have taken...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (13 Oct 2010)

Brendan Smith: In accordance with Regulation (EC) No. 1774/2002, poultry offal is classified as a Category 3 animal by-product (ABP). This is the lowest risk category of animal by-product. Poultry offal is not generally regarded as hazardous waste. The normal method of disposal of poultry offal is by rendering. The above mentioned regulation provides for a number of other approved methods of disposal of...

Written Answers — Pigmeat Sector: Pigmeat Sector (13 Oct 2010)

Brendan Smith: The agreement concluded with pig processors in December 2008 involved making available a facility of up to €180 million to assist processors in funding the recall and destruction of certain pork products from the market. The closing date for the Pigmeat Recall scheme was 16th April 2010. A total of €100m has been paid out under the Scheme to date: €35m in 2008, €55m in 2009 and...

Written Answers — Domestic Abattoirs: Domestic Abattoirs (13 Oct 2010)

Brendan Smith: The Local Authority Veterinary Service (LVAS) supervises low-throughput slaughterhouses under service contract with the Food Safety Authority of Ireland. The number of slaughterhouses supervised by the LVAS from 2005 – 2010 at year end is outlined below. Oct 2010 = 232 As I do not have a role in relation to local slaughterhouses, I do not have plans to carry out a review. Small meat...

Written Answers — Installation Aid Scheme: Installation Aid Scheme (13 Oct 2010)

Brendan Smith: The Young Farmers' Installation Scheme was suspended for new applications with effect from 14 October 2008 as part of the decisions taken within the context of the 2009 Budget. I have no plans at present to reintroduce this Scheme although I have provided a sum of €4.5 million in this year's Estimates in order to meet outstanding commitments under this and preceding installation aid schemes.

Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (13 Oct 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application for afforestation grant aid on behalf of the person in question is currently being processed. I understand that the application is one of a number which is being held pending completion of discussions between the Forestry Division of my Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service in relation to the effects of afforestation and windfarms on the habitat of the Hen Harrier.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (13 Oct 2010)

Brendan Smith: EU Commission approval for the introduction of five targeted modernisation schemes focused on supporting productive investment in the agricultural sector was received earlier this year. Due to the relatively short time-frames for completion of the investment works concerned, priority was given to the introduction of the Sow Welfare and Poultry Welfare Schemes which were launched on 16 June...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (13 Oct 2010)

Brendan Smith: I propose to take Questions Nos. 243 and 244 together. An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 13 May 2010. The application of the person named is now processed and the 75% advance payment due under the Disadvantaged Area Scheme will issue shortly. The 25% balancing payments under that Scheme are scheduled to...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 Oct 2010)

Brendan Smith: The Traditional Farm Buildings Scheme is part of the Rural Environment Protection Scheme and is operated on my Department's behalf by the Heritage Council. Thirty-five applications have been received from North Tipperary. All 35 have now been processed. Seven have been approved and one is pending approval; the rest have been rejected. Successful applicants have until early Autumn 2011 to...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (12 Oct 2010)

Brendan Smith: The Forestry Act 1988 provided for the establishment of Coillte Teoranta as a company to be registered under the Companies Acts. Section 12 of the Forestry Act 1988 provided inter alia that the principal objects of the company shall be stated in its memorandum of association to be: - to carry on the business of forestry and related activities on a commercial basis and in accordance with...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (12 Oct 2010)

Brendan Smith: There are 4 commercial State Bodies under my Department's aegis: Bord na g Con Coillte Teoranta Horse Racing Ireland Irish National Stud As these are commercial bodies this information is a matter for the Board of each of the State Agencies/Bodies themselves. However, information on the number of employees, the total budget and total personnel cost is available in the Annual Report of each...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (12 Oct 2010)

Brendan Smith: There is no such right under the circumstances laid out by the Deputy for the original owners to re-purchase land purchased by agencies/bodies under the aegis of my Department.