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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 83. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce measures to address the income difficulties in the sheep sector, including a new direct payment scheme to replace the sheep grassland scheme; if sheep farmers will receive priority access to the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme to replace income lost due to the ending of the rural environment...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plant Inspections (8 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 84. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the controls he has put in place to monitor carcass trimming in meat plants; if this work is being monitored by agricultural officers in real time, particularly as it is done prior to the weighing of carcasses on which farmers are paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35065/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licences (8 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 85. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the report of the review of the aquaculture licensing regime will be published as provided for in Foodwise 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35066/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 86. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the locally led targeted agri-environment output scheme will be rolled out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35067/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Data (8 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 87. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have qualified for the first phase of the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme (GLAS) and GLAS+ by county; the average annual payments granted to farmers by GLAS and by GLAS + by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35068/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 88. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when approvals will commence for young farmers under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme II; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35069/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Expenditure (8 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 89. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of targeted agricultural modernisation scheme I funding that will be spent as part of the 2007 to 2013 rural development programme by sub-measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35070/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme (8 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 90. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the changes he has made in the current rural development programme to the knowledge transfer measure; the update on the roll-out of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35071/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (8 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 91. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that meat factories are using a new and different mechanical grading formula over the past few weeks, and that this is being used to assess, grade, and pay farmers for their cattle; if these changes were known to his Department; if his Department has made sure that these changes have not impacted negatively on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (8 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 92. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is opposed to meat factories imposing unviable carcass weight limits on beef farmers, which could damage our beef industry, particularly the suckler herd; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35074/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (8 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 93. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers to date who have terminated their contracts under the agri-environment options scheme; the rural environment protection scheme, in order to join the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme, GLAS, in line with the statement in reply to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 324 to 327, inclusive, on 29 September 2015,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (8 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 94. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cavan for the slaughter of 16 cattle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35076/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (8 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 95. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when all outstanding payments which were withheld from a person (details supplied) in County Cavan for the past number of years will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35077/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Legal Cases (8 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 96. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the outcome of a review undertaken within his Department following a judgment in a court case (details supplied); if this report was forwarded to the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35078/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commonage Land (8 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 97. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of commonages in the municipal district of Connemara in County Galway; the name of each commonage; the details of the commonages that have been assigned to a planner to draw up commonage plans under the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme, GLAS; the total area of each commonage and the number of shareholders in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 204. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will resist proposals by the European Commission in the review of the national emission ceiling directive currently taking place to introduce methane reduction targets that could impinge on Irish agriculture, as methane emissions are already covered under the European Union's climate policy; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Genetically Modified Organisms (8 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 205. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government If Ireland will inform the European Commission that it intends to go genetically modified organisms free; the reason for the decision of the Government in this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35079/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Conservation (8 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 233. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the interdepartmental steering group established by her Department to help in developing a threat response plan for the hen harrier was set up; when the group is expected to issue its recommendations, particularly on wind farms and afforestation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35063/15]

Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Has the commissioning of the report started? Yes or no.

Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (7 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 7. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of money available for lending to Irish agriculture, rural development and farming from the European Investment Bank; when applications will be taken for this funding; the rate of interest to be charged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34221/15]