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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is 37 lbs in old fashioned weight. I will come back to the witness on this point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Of course the organic bodies are happy with it. Why would they not be? They are getting paid. The farmers are not happy with it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Who is "we"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Mr. Zieg has said that we produce large quantities of organic farmed salmon. It fascinates me to think that a hill lamb which might only be given a fluke or worm dose and otherwise allowed to ramble the hill is not considered organic while a fish that is put in a cage, a totally unnatural environment, is considered organic. No one can try to tell me that organic fish farmers do not use...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes it is, but how is farmed salmon classified as organic? What is the definition used by Bord Bia in that context?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Are they allowed to determine this? Who decides, objectively, what is organic?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, but who do the certification bodies answer to? What standards are used? Is it a European standard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Who defines it as organic? Is it Bord Bia, the Department or the European Union, or is it self-certification?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Could the witnesses find out who is responsible?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I heard with interest what Mr Fennell said about the weight of sheep. I agree that Bord Bia has to try to satisfy the market, but on the other hand we have to recognise that there are physical limitations to what can be done. It is easy enough to get the sheep on the margins of the hills, in hill farms with kinder hills and better lowland up to what we call French weights, but further into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The way things have been going, the guys on the margins are getting in on what Bord Bia is doing, but it is the people on the real hills who have the real problem. I have heard different suggestions, such as that since the lambs are not born until April, they would be defined as lambs until September of the following year because it is nearly impossible to get them on the winter trade. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Where are they?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Which specific hills are we on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is the point I am trying to make. I would know Connemara a bit better than I know Mayo. If I go to Tourmakeady, which is in south Mayo on the border, they have always been able to produce them. The further north one goes, the more they can get the French weight because they have a lot of good lowland and they have kinder hills. If I go to Joyce country, to places like Glantrague and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 64. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the additional resources that will be made available to An Garda Síochána in County Galway under Operation Thor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42419/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 106. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda Síochána stations and the number of gardaí in each station in County Galway on 1 November 2010 and on 1 November 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42420/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scéimeanna Talmhaíochta (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén uair a dhéanfar íocaíocht faoin scéim buníocaíochta agus faoi scéim na limistéar srianta nádúrtha do 2015 le feirmeoir i gContae na Gaillimhe (Sonraí leis seo); cén fáth go bhfuil moill leis an íocaíocht seo; agus an ndéanfaidh sé...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scéimeanna Talmhaíochta (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 250. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén uair a eiseofar íocaíocht d'fheirmeoir i gContae na Gaillimhe (Sonraí leis seo) faoi scéim na limistéar srianta nádúrtha nó faoin scéim buníocaíochta do 2015; cén fáth go bhfuil moill leis an íocaíocht seo; agus an ndéanfaidh sé...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scéimeanna Talmhaíochta (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 253. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén uair a dhéanfar íocaíocht faoi scéim na limistéar srianta nádúrtha agus faoin scéim buníocaíochta do 2015 le feirmeoir i gContae na Gaillimhe (Sonraí leis seo); cén fáth go bhfuil moill leis an íocaíocht seo; agus an ndéanfaidh sé...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Applications (1 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 255. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the 2015 areas of natural constraint scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42490/15]