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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Grocery Industry Competition (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Has the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation consulted the Minister of State on the regulations he is drawing up? Has he given the Minister of State assurances that he will do more than guide the supermarkets on how to deal with producers in a fair and reasonable manner? Does the Minister of State not think we need a little more than guidance to ensure the supermarkets behave in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Grocery Industry Competition (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What about the supermarkets?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Grocery Industry Competition (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Article 45.2.iii of the Constitution provides, "That, especially, the operation of free competition shall not be allowed so to develop as to result in the concentration of the ownership or control of essential commodities in a few individuals to the common detriment." Whatever about the law, the Minister of State is constitutionally bound to ensure the common good prevails in this case....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Grocery Industry Competition (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister of State can. It says so in Article 45.2.iii of the Constitution.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Administration (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They are expressions of interest-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Administration (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: But I am talking about applications. There is a difference.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Administration (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress to date in the roll-out of the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41413/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Administration (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a general interest in GLAS. Will the Minister provide an update on the progress of the roll-out of the scheme? In particular, will he outline the average payment amount approved for farmers who have been accepted into the scheme?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Administration (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I keep tabling parliamentary questions on this issue but I do not seem to get an answer. Of the 24,830 applications approved, what will be the average payment per farmer? Many people are anxious to find this out. What progress has been made to date with the commonage plans that are an integral part of GLAS? Will the Minister once again confirm that farmers will be paid by Christmas for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Administration (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have tabled a few questions over the past several weeks.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Administration (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister could give me a figure for the 24,830 applications.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Administration (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I put it as a supplementary question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Administration (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are able to read figures given authoritatively by the Department to the Irish Farmers’ Journal. However, Deputies who table a parliamentary question - who one would think would get priority in the dissemination of information - do not seem to be able to get the same information. I find that quite extraordinary.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Administration (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How can indications of the figure be given to the Irish Farmers’ Journal?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Administration (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, but the Minister has signed off on 24,830 applications already, and he could give some indication as to the average payment. There seems to be some reason, however, why the Minister is reluctant to give information.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: GLAS Administration (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister give an update as to the number of expressions of interest for tranche 2? Will he confirm whether advisers can submit applications on the computer system and, if so, how many applications have been received? If fewer than 13,000 applications have been received by 7 December, will the Minister leave the scheme open until 13,000 have been received? Alternatively, if more...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TAMS Data (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 14. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have received approval under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme 2 to date; the number it is expected to approve between now and the end of 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41249/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 15. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the funding made available to dairy and pig farmers by the European Union due to the distressed state of the market in 2015 will be paid; the reason for the delay; the amount of money to be paid to each farmer; if there will be a national top up to this money; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41247/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Applications (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 21. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications under the areas of natural constraint scheme and the basic payment scheme that have not been paid in 2015; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41248/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licence Application Numbers (25 Nov 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 38. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of finfish and shellfish licence applications he hopes to decide on between now and 1 April 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41246/15]