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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Martin Heydon: ...Gael has been the area of consultation. It is important for us to have key engagement across all sectors including: town hall meetings, Tidy Towns groups, local branch and county executives of farming organisations and environmental organisations. We want as much consultation and engagement as possible in a short, sharp period in order that we get buy-in on how any increased revenue is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (18 Dec 2018)

Martin Heydon: 676. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the timing of completion of revised planning guidelines for wind farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53472/18]

Other Questions: Farm Household Incomes (26 Apr 2018)

Martin Heydon: 7. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of farm incomes over the past year; the way in which these figures compare to previous years both nationally and in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18248/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources (6 Mar 2018)

Martin Heydon: ...important for the EU but food security is also very important. Ensuring there is a good carbon footprint for the food we produce is very important. The positive environment impacts of sustainable farming are also very important to us.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (14 Feb 2018)

Martin Heydon: 306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the process on the new planning guidelines for wind farms (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7794/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (10 Oct 2017)

Martin Heydon: 713. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the guidance provided to local authorities with regard to planning applications for solar farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42573/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (28 Sep 2017)

Martin Heydon: ...of certain recommendations contained in the review of the fair deal scheme from July 2015, with specific reference to the recommendations relating to the financial assessment of family farms and small businesses; the expected timeframe for the completion of the work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40937/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (12 Jul 2017)

Martin Heydon: 334. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the review of the fair deal scheme with specific reference to the treatment of family farms and small businesses in line with the commitment given in the programme for a partnership Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33547/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Returning Emigrant Support Services: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Martin Heydon: ...going to be difficult to get around, because ultimately we have to be able to display it to Europe, because a lot is European money. We also have to be able to display that people are serious about the farming enterprise that they are going into, and that they have displayed a desire. Is it an issue for returning emigrants to access the necessary training requirements? It is fair enough...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Returning Emigrant Support Services: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Martin Heydon: ...place under the last Common Agricultural Policy. This was intended to bring about a more balanced approach. It was a very contentious issue which saw a divide between the so-called productive farmer and more marginal farmers. We had to make sure we got it right. That debate is probably more suited to an agriculture committee than here, but there is a balance involved. We have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Returning Emigrant Support Services: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Martin Heydon: ...the past. The reason somebody who owned extensive amounts of stud land is getting that money is that historically, and still to this day, they have a large holding and a lot of cattle. They are farming productively.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Returning Emigrant Support Services: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Martin Heydon: There are 4,000 people in rural parts of Kildare who are employed in these stud farms. They are real jobs for real families, so I would not dismiss them either.

Other Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (24 Jan 2017)

Martin Heydon: ...or 20 to get into the workforce and it ended up costing them a great deal in terms of their pensions. That makes averaging a particularly harsh and unfair mechanism. I will look at some elements. Farming families are impacted upon here, as are small businesses. There are examples that show there is a need for change. We are mindful that whatever change is made, the knock-on impact...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (17 Nov 2016)

Martin Heydon: 260. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set down the number of garnishee orders that have been taken against farmers and their single farm payment in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35698/16]

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2016)

Martin Heydon: ...a gain for approximately 1.5 million recipients, from carers, the disabled and jobseekers to pensioners, widows, the blind and those on maternity leave. There are 8,000 recipients benefitting under the farm assist scheme. There are measures covering illness benefit, invalidity benefit and lone parents benefits. I will refer to some of these in a little more detail. I welcome the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (20 Oct 2016)

Martin Heydon: 128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the progress in finalising revised planning guidelines on wind farm developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31323/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility (21 Jul 2016)

Martin Heydon: 742. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a single farm payment will continue to be drawn on land that is developed for solar energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24141/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (2 Jun 2016)

Martin Heydon: 30. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the rules of the fair deal scheme as they apply to family farms and family businesses, given that the current rules can cause difficulties for family members taking over these businesses, particularly where the three year cap does not apply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13764/16]

Agriculture and Fisheries Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Martin Heydon: ...producer organisations and co-operatives to compensate their suppliers for reductions in supply. At home in south Kildare, I am surrounded by neighbours who have invested massively in their dairy farms to ramp up supply in this post-quota era. Commodity prices are cyclical. Notwithstanding the sustained period of low prices, they will rise again. Farmers must be able to make money on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Dec 2015)

Martin Heydon: ...in the witnesses' presentation that there are a couple of thousand who have dropped out and we are just short of the 30,000. How will it work out in the coming years when we have new entrants into farming? I know commitments could not be given on that in the past. Would the witnesses be confident that a young farmer who starts in the coming years and might be inheriting a farm that is...