Results 12,501-12,520 of 18,482 for speaker:Brendan Smith
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: Payment issued to the person named on 19 May 2010.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: The herd number in question has been registered in the name of the person named since 16 May 2002. The person named submitted applications under the Single Payment Scheme and Disadvantaged Areas Scheme in respect of each of the years 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 and has been fully paid in respect of each application. The applicant applied for and was allocated a top-up...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: The person concerned is an applicant under the Farm Waste Management Scheme. The first two instalments of grant-aid have been paid by my Department to the applicant and the final instalment will be paid in January 2011. I have also announced that a special ex-gratia payment not exceeding 3.5 per cent of the value of the deferred amount will be made to farmers whose Farm Waste Management...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: The person named applied has 11 animals for consideration under the 2009 Suckler Welfare Scheme. It is a condition of this Scheme that for herds of more than 10 cows the calves must be weaned in at least two separate groups with each group being removed at a minimum interval of five days. The person named did not comply with this condition and, therefore, is not eligible for payment, as per...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: The person named has 24 animals for consideration under the 2009 Suckler Welfare Scheme. It is a condition of this Scheme that for herds of more than 10 cows the calves must be weaned in at least two separate groups with each group being removed at a minimum interval of five days. Payment has not issued as the person named provided the same weaning date for all the animals. However, the...
- Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (25 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: The closing date for receipt of applications to the New Entrants Scheme was in fact 9 April 2010. A total of 82 applications was referred to the independent assessment group for adjudication. The group has recently concluded its deliberations and I hope to be in a position to make an announcement shortly.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: Arrangements are currently at an advanced stage in my Department to allow the balancing payments due under the Upland Sheep Payment to issue to beneficiaries very shortly.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: The payment belonging to the person named is at an advanced stage of processing and he will be advised of the outcome shortly.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: My officials have written to the person named requesting that documentation be submitted. The documentation has not yet been received and my officials have been in contact with the applicant's planner with a view to resolving the matter.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: Payment to the person named will issue within two weeks.
- Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (25 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: The details requested are set out in the tabular statement attached. The acceptance of REPS 4 applications is governed by EU Regulations which require exhaustive administrative checks and on-the-spot inspections. In a significant number of the applications received, the administrative checks raised issues and queries which required further detailed examination. My Department's staff have...
- Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (25 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: The majority of farmers who applied for REPS 4 were former participants in either REPS 1, REPS 2 or REPS 3. The following table details county-by-county the number of former participants in REPS 3 who applied for REPS 4. County Carlow 132 Cavan 383 Clare 462 Cork 1,165 Donegal 276 Dublin 23 Galway 692 Kerry 478 Kildare 146 Kilkenny 182 Laois 347 Leitrim 543 Limerick 457...
- Written Answers — Departmental Research: Departmental Research (25 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: The Farm Structure Survey (Central Statistics Office 2007) showed that 51 percent of all farmers were aged 55 or more, while 26 percent were aged 45 or less. Specialist tillage farmers and dairy farmers tended to have a younger age profile with 46 and 39 percent respectively over the age of 55. As part of the 2020 Strategy we are currently developing, my Department has commissioned the Rural...
- Written Answers — Crop Losses: Crop Losses (25 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: A total of 256 applications under the Aid Scheme for Fodder Damaged by Floods were confirmed as eligible for aid following inspection. These payments were valued at â¬528,718 in total; the county breakdown is as follows: County No Cases Monetary Amount Clare 16 â¬30,969.25 Cork 3 â¬12,985.00 Galway 107 â¬243,978.08 Kerry 1 â¬1,750.00 Kilkenny 1 â¬2,100.00 Leitrim 11...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (20 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: As at the closing date of the 19 February 2010, some 359 applications which related to potato and/or field vegetable crop losses were received. Following a preliminary examination, some 20 claimants were deemed ineligible under the EU State Aid rules which require that the losses suffered must exceed 30% of the grower's average of production in the 3 previous years. All the remaining 339...
- Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (20 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: My Department actively encourages forest owners to thin their crops, where silviculturally appropriate. Not all forests are suitable for thinning. If a forest is exposed to high winds or located on unstable soils, the risk of thinning may outweigh the advantages. Thinning can not only improve the quality of the final crop trees, it can also provide a source of intermediate income for...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (20 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: Funding is currently available for the Forest Road Scheme and applications are being processed in the normal way.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (20 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: The person concerned is an applicant under the Young Farmers' Installation Scheme. His application was rejected as certain requirements, notably concerning the lease, were not met. Under the terms and conditions of the Scheme a lease must run for at least seven years from an applicant's set-up date and this was not the case for this application. Further submissions regarding the...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (20 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: Payment will issue to the person named within ten working days.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (20 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: The person named has 14 animals for consideration under the 2009 Suckler Welfare Scheme. The Terms and Conditions of the Suckler Welfare Scheme (section 8.5.2) clearly states that for herds of more than 10 suckler cows a gradual weaning procedure must be followed. It is open to the farmers to wean at pasture or indoors but the calves must be weaned in at least 2 separate groups with each...