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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (12 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: The Minister, his Department and Opposition spokespersons have engaged with farming organisations to try to resolve the issue of so-called nomadic cattle. I refer to cattle taken from the South to be processed in the North. Can the Minister outline his negotiations with factories on this? Is there light at the end of the tunnel?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Scheme Eligibility (12 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: 2. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of active commonage farmers regarding implementation of, and criteria for, the GLAS scheme; and the action he proposes to alleviate those concerns. [43097/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Scheme Eligibility (12 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: The issue I wish to raise is the criteria for, and the implementation of, GLAS and what actions the Minister proposes to take in respect of the concerns expressed by farmers who wish to participate in this scheme. There are a number of questions. When can they expect their first payment for GLAS? Will farmers be allowed to enter GLAS as individual farmers? When will the management plan be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Scheme Eligibility (12 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: The Minister's reply indicates that there will be no payment before the end of next year.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Scheme Eligibility (12 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: People who are coming out of schemes will have no payment for over 18 months. That will create financial difficulties for the smaller and weaker farmer. Regarding commonage and getting farmers to sign up to a plan, I appreciate the difficulties that will present. Getting everybody or even 50% of people to agree on something will itself create huge difficulties. I welcome the fact that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Scheme Eligibility (12 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: With regard to an overall plan for a commonage area, is the responsibility to pay for that on the people who are applying for GLAS or will the Department pay for it? It appears that if only a small number of people buy into it and there is an overall plan, the onus of paying for it falls on the person who is a recipient. If only two out of five take up the scheme and the other three do not,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Scheme Eligibility (12 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: What about the overall plan?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commonage Framework Plans (12 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: 11. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm the risk of financial corrections being imposed by the European Commission on undergrazing on commonages. [43014/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Exports (12 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: 26. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on his visit to China and the potential for Irish beef exports there. [43015/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (12 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: 40. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is evidence of beef farmers switching to dairy production in significant numbers and if this presents a concern for the beef industry. [43013/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: 390. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick with type 2 diabetes who is unable to take medication, suffers terrible pain and has been on a neurosurgery waiting list for over a year at Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43090/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (11 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: 461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will receive payment and arrears of special transport needs grant. [42970/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: Does the removal or severe restriction of flexibility in the context of the introduction of non-organic breeding stock, seeds, etcetera, onto organic farms open the door to genetically modified products?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: Some key issues have emerged here about which we are all concerned, particularly the transfer of powers to the Commission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: I am sure in my own mind that the proposals around non-organic breeding stock relate to GMOs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Plan 2014-2020: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (4 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: I thank Mr. Dillon for his presentation. Much of what Deputy Ó Cuív states is what I have been hearing as well at meetings throughout the country. I understand representatives of the Department attended meetings in the west. I was not at those meetings but what I know, from the farmers to whom I have spoken since, as I was in the west last week, is that there is total...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Imports (4 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: 424. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of beef imported into this country by month to date in 2014. [41450/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Ireland Staff (4 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: 1074. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the chief executive officer of Inland Fisheries Ireland attended the world recreational fishing conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from 1 to 4 September 2014; and if he was accompanied by other staff or board members of IFI. [41402/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Ireland Staff (4 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: 1075. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a breakdown of the cost of the attendance of Inland Fisheries Ireland personnel at the world recreational fishing conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil from 1 to 4 September 2014. [41403/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Ireland Staff (4 Nov 2014)

Martin Ferris: 1076. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to set out the reason and planned outcome of the attendance of Inland Fisheries Ireland personnel at the world reactional fishing conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from 1 to 4 September 2014. [41404/14]