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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Green Low-carbon Agri-environment Scheme (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 4. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that no commonage farmer will be excluded from access to GLAS by the 50% threshold; that all commonage land will qualify for the €120 per hectare payment; if he will ensure that GLAS is open for application at an early date to ensure that farmers are eligible for a full year's payment in 2015; and if he will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Green Low-carbon Agri-environment Scheme (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: There is much concern and disquiet relating to the commonage aspect of the GLAS scheme. When commonage is owned by shareholders, each of whom has mapped and registered holdings, but boundaries are not fenced, it is known as unenclosed privately owned land. The proposed GLAS payment for nature sites and such land is €75 per hectare rather than €120, which applies to commonage...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 17. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that there are no further cuts to the disadvantaged area scheme and reverse the cuts imposed to date including the restoration of payments on the first 45 hectares. [35176/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Budget 2015 (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 20. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that there are no further cuts to REP scheme 4 payments in budget 2015 and also that funding for AEOS be maintained at its current level in budget 2013. [35178/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Exports (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 21. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the measures being considered for dealing with compensation to farmers due to the Russian food sanctions. [35174/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 27. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress he has made in addressing the ongoing impasse on beef prices which have decimated farmers income; and the role that the beef forum has in the process. [35177/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme Projects (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 29. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will open applications for the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme at an early date; and if he will ensure that budget 2015 will provide adequate funding for same. [35175/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 100. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a disability allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry as all relevant information has been submitted. [35531/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 141. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35855/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 409. To ask the Minister for Health if he will appoint a senior clinical nurse to the purpose-built mental health facility in Kenmare, County Kerry as this facility remains unused 15 months after it was built because the Health Service Executive has been unable to employ a specialist senior clinical nurse to manage the much needed amenity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35850/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Administration (23 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 507. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will maintain the current Leader model to ensure the continued quality delivery of service to rural and urban communities which have a proven organisation structure of 2,500 employees and have processed more than €500 million in funding for projects over the past five years alone. [35705/14]

Water Services (Exempt Charges) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: I congratulate Minister of State, Deputy Paudie Coffey, on his appointment and wish him the very best in his term in office. Water metering is the priority of Irish Water to the exclusion of required emergency works to deal with contaminated water supplies and provide for the replacement of deficient pipelines leaking millions of gallons of water every year. Kerry County Council has an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (18 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 181. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the Health Service Executive's south region implements the commitments as specified and outlined in the 2014 operational plan in relation to community mental health network team of psychiatry in old age in County Kerry by immediately completing the recruitment process and provide suitable clinical and administrative processes to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (18 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 182. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34918/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pensions Data (17 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 113. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number of applications for invalidity pension for the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; the number of refusals of same; the number of appeals of same; the results of these appeals for those years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33976/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 148. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will maintain the funding for farm assist in the forthcoming budget; if she will restore income and child disregards to their pre-budget 2013 levels and assess the means test on the current income position rather than on a historical 12 month basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34446/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme Administration (17 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 153. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will double the number of places on the rural social scheme from its current number of 2600 to 5200 as the RSS continues to be a vital support to low income farmers in areas where job opportunities are limited; if she will ensure that the ongoing review of this scheme will allow for flexibility in implementation as the training...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Assessments (17 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 364. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will arrange in conjunction with Kerry County Council to undertake the necessary flood remedial measures to ensure that there is no re-occurrence of the flooding of homes in an area (details supplied) in County Kerry which has occurred a number of times in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34131/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 365. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount allocated to Kerry County Council for coastal protection works and flood relief measures following the winter storms and flooding; the expenditure to date of this designated funding to County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34133/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Tom Fleming: 366. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount of projects identified during January-February 2014 following the storms and flooding destruction; the locations of the projects; the position regarding the progress of work on these projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34136/14]