Results 12,801-12,820 of 16,057 for speaker:Mary Coughlan
- Written Answers — Pest Control: Pest Control (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The New Zealand flatworm has been recorded in Britain and Ireland over the last ten years. These flatworms are predators of earthworms and there is no control method other than trapping and physically destroying them. As they do not affect plants or vector plant diseases they are not covered by plant health legislation that comes within the remit of my Department. There was a considerable...
- Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: My Department was aware, from an early stage in the negotiations leading to the introduction of the single payment scheme, of the possible implications for retired farmers who had leased their holdings. In so far as it proved possible in the context of the EU regulations governing the single payment scheme, and following lengthy discussions with the European Commission, provision was made...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: My Department was aware, from an early stage in the negotiations leading to the introduction of the single payment scheme, of the possible implications for retired farmers who had leased their holdings. In so far as it proved possible in the context of the EU regulations governing the single payment scheme, and following lengthy discussions with the European Commission, provision was made...
- Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: It is a requirement of the EU Council Regulations (2079/92 and 1257/99) under which the 1994 and 2000 early retirement schemes were introduced that the early retirement pension can be paid only as a supplement to any national retirement pension that the participant, and his or her spouse or partner in a joint management arrangement, receive. This means that the value of any national...
- Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: I am still considering certain aspects of the joint committee's report on the early retirement scheme and I expect to be in a position to make announcements in due course. A number of the committee's recommendations are, as I explained in my detailed response to the report, precluded by the EU regulations under which the current scheme and its predecessor are operated.
- Written Answers — Animal Diseases: Animal Diseases (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The current position is that there are no elephants in Dublin Zoo, although there are plans to acquire a group of three young elephants from Rotterdam Zoo. I understand that animals within this group are infected with the disease referred to, which is thought to be widespread in captive and free-ranging elephants worldwide. I am advised that this particular disease only affects elephants and,...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: Department records show that the person named was paid in full under the 2004 ewe premium scheme. Under that scheme, the person named has a quota of 25 ewes. Under the 2004 scheme, the person named applied on 25 ewes, which were accepted. Full payment issued as follows â a sum of â¬700 on 19 October 2004, 25 ewes @ â¬21/ewe premium, plus 25 @ â¬7/supplementary payment, formerly rural...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: I have had arrangements made to have a duplicate statement of entitlements issued to the person named.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: Article 10 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1782/2003 provides for the modulation and reduction in the amount of each payment under the single payment scheme, as follows â 3% in 2005, 4% in 2006 and 5% in 2007 and subsequent years. At least 80% of the total amounts generated are available to fund rural development measures. Article 12 of the Council regulation provides for the payment of an...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The review of the entitlements of those single payment scheme applicants who had de-stocked prior to participating in the rural environmental protection scheme is ongoing. Officials of my Department will be making direct contact with each of the individuals concerned, including the person named, following completion of the review.
- Written Answers — Assisted Animal Reproduction: Assisted Animal Reproduction (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: I have made inquiries of the relevant authorities in the UK regarding this matter and I was informed that no grants are being offered to UK farmers to improve herd quality by means of artificial insemination. However, if the Deputy has specific information on such a grant scheme that I have not been made aware of by the relevant authorities, then I can investigate the matter further. My...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: An application under the single payment scheme was received from the person named on 11 May 2005. Following initial processing, it was found that the person named had over-claimed on one of the land parcels concerned, as a result of which the payment which is due to issue shortly, is being reduced in accordance with the governing EU rules. However, it is open to the person named to appeal the...
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The implementation of the nitrates directive is a matter for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government in the first instance. He signed the regulations to give legal effect to the nitrates action programme in December last and they came into effect on 1 February 2006. Last month, Teagasc, the State body responsible for providing the science on which the technical aspects...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application under the single payment scheme on 27 April 2005. The herd owner also applied to have his entitlements consolidated under the 2005 single payment scheme. This application has been processed and full payment of â¬12,938 will issue shortly.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named established 25 entitlements during the reference period, with a total value of â¬3,143.50. An application under the single payment scheme was received from the person named on 16 May 2005. Payment in full issued to the person named on 18 January 2006.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: Neither the person named nor his late son has entitlements established under the single payment scheme because they did not receive any direct payments during the reference years. As indicated in my reply to a related question from the Deputy on 23 June 2005, my Department was prepared to accept an application to the national reserve under category D from the person named to replace that of...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: An application was submitted in this case for an allocation of entitlements from the single payments scheme national reserve under categories B and D. Category B caters for farmers who, between 1 January 2000 and 19 October 2003, made an investment in production capacity in a farming sector for which a direct payment under livestock premia and/or arable aid schemes would have been payable...
- Written Answers — Forestry Retirement Scheme: Forestry Retirement Scheme (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: An increase in the forestry pension of the person in question in the amount of â¬118.92 per annum was sanctioned in December 2005 with effect from 1 June 2005. I understand that the new pension rate and arrears will be paid by the Office of the Pay Master General as quickly as possible.
- Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named applied under category C of the national reserve, which caters for farmers who, between 1 January 2000 and 19 October 2003, sold their milk quota into the milk quota restructuring scheme and converted their enterprise to a farming sector for which a direct payment under livestock premia or arable aid schemes, would have been payable during the reference period 2000 to 2002....
- Written Answers — Poultry Industry: Poultry Industry (7 Feb 2006)
Mary Coughlan: It is not the normal policy of my Department to operate a slaughter-out policy in the case of an outbreak of mycoplasma gallisepticum and, therefore, the issue of compensation would not normally arise. It is normal practice that, when the disease is detected in the commercial poultry industry, the producer would have the flock slaughtered on a voluntary basis at his or her own expense.