Results 11,961-11,980 of 16,057 for speaker:Mary Coughlan
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The persons named submitted a Single Payment Scheme application on 11 May 2005 under herd number G2321032. They had established 153.72 entitlements under this herd number and having processed the application a payment in the amount â¬48,964.95 in respect of 134.59 entitlements issued on 16 December 2005. This payment represented the 134.59 eligible hectares declared on their 2005 Single...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The inheritance application submitted in this case has been successfully processed. The person involved is in the process of obtaining a Herd Number, and once this has been accomplished his Single Payment will issue.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted a Private Contract Clause application to transfer 5.57 of his 19.84 entitlements by way of a lease agreement under the 2005 Single Payment Scheme. The application was successful, and the entitlements were transferred to the lessee. The applicant has been fully paid on his remaining 14.27 entitlements under the 2005 Single Payment Scheme.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application for an allocation of entitlements from the Single Payments Scheme National Reserve under category D. Category D caters for farmers who commenced farming after 31 December 2002 or who commenced farming in 2002 but who received no direct payments in respect of that scheme year. The person named has been notified that the circumstances outlined by him...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application for an allocation of entitlements from the Single Payment Scheme National Reserve under Category B. Category B caters for farmers who, between 1 January 2000 and 19 October 2003, made an investment in production capacity in a farming sector for which a direct payment under Livestock Premia and/or Arable Aid schemes would have been payable during the...
- Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (4 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 177 and 178 together. The term "clawback" was widely used in the 1990s to describe the forfeiture to the national reserve of a portion of a transferor's milk quota where the associated dairying lands were subject to transfer in certain circumstances. The measure has not applied in the past 5 years. The European Communities (Milk Quota) Regulations, 2000...
- Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (4 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: Participants in the Early Retirement Scheme may be granted approval to establish new leases for land and quota, other than with family members, in limited circumstances only. In particular, as set down in the European Communities (Milk Quota) Regulations, 2000 such approvals may only be granted where the existing lessee has reasonable cause not to renew the lease.
- Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (4 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The table outlines the quantity of milk quota offered into Temporary Leasing Schemes in each of the past five years, and the quantity of milk quota involved in land and quota leases in each of those years. Quota year Quantity offered into Temporary Leasing Scheme â all stages Quantity of Quota leased with land (Million Litres) (Million Litres) 2005/2006 94 91 ...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: In general, the Single Payment Scheme in 2005 was applicable to farmers who actively farmed in all or any of the three reference years 2000, 2001 and 2002, who were paid Livestock Premia and/or Arable Aid payments in one or more of those years and who submitted a valid 2005 Single Payment Scheme application. Based on the farming activity during the reference years, the person named...
- Written Answers — Rural Development: Rural Development (4 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: My Department received the submission in question in the past week and it is currently being examined. A detailed reply will issue to ICSA in due course.
- Written Answers — Tribunals of Inquiry: Tribunals of Inquiry (4 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: I assume the Deputy's question relates to my official position as Minister for Agriculture and Food. My Department has not received any notification of a decision by the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters pursuant to paragraph J (2) of its amended terms of reference. I have no official role in relation to any such notifications that may have been issued to individuals on a...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: An application under the 2005 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 15 May 2005. Full payment issued in respect of his standard entitlements on 1 December 2005. In addition, the person named submitted an application for an allocation of entitlements from the Single Payment Scheme National Reserve under Category A and Category B. Category A caters for farmers who...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application under the inheritance measure of the Single Payment Scheme. The applicant has been notified that he has been successful, and payment will issue shortly.
- Written Answers — Departmental Committees: Departmental Committees (4 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The Audit Committee of the Department of Agriculture and Food consists of eight members, all but one of whom are external to the Department itself. The composition of the audit committee is as follows: Mr. John Donnelly, Chairman of the Committee. Mr. Donnelly is a Chartered Accountant and is Deputy Chairman of Hypo Real Estate Bank International. He was formerly Chairman of Deloitte &...
- Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (3 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: It is a requirement of the EU Council Regulations under which the 1994 and 2000 Early Retirement Schemes were introduced that the Early Retirement Pension can be paid only as a supplement to any national retirement pension to which the participant (and his or her spouse or partner in a joint management arrangement) is entitled. The Old Age Contributory Pension is a national retirement pension...
- Written Answers — Agrifood Sector: Agrifood Sector (3 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 354 and 393 together. My Department provides funding for research and development in the food processing and primary agriculture sectors through the Food Institutional Research (FIRM) and Research Stimulus Fund (RSF) measures, and also through the research activities of Teagasc, COFORD and of the Department's own laboratories. The FIRM programme supports...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (3 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The position is that Category D of the 2005 National Reserve caters for new entrants to farming after 31 December 2002 and farmers who commenced farming in 2002 but who received no direct payments in that scheme year. The total income of an applicant in this category may not exceed â¬40,000 and any off-farm income may not exceed â¬20,000. Farming qualifications are also required for this...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (3 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application for an allocation of entitlements from the Single Payment Scheme National Reserve under Category A and Category 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 period...
- Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (3 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The payment of a pension under the 1994-1999 Scheme of Early Retirement from Farming is conditional on the requirements of the Scheme being met, as set out in the Scheme document and to which the applicant agreed to be bound on joining the Scheme. The primary conditions are that the applicant undertakes to cease commercial farming and transfers his/her land to an eligible transferee for the...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (3 May 2006)
Mary Coughlan: Under the 2001 Special Beef Premium Scheme, the person named submitted four applications in respect of a total of thirteen animals. Under the 2003 Special Beef Premium Scheme, the person named submitted one application in respect of one animal. Following investigations, the identification of eight of the thirteen animals applied on under the 2001 Scheme was not confirmed. The Terms and...