Results 12,881-12,900 of 16,057 for speaker:Mary Coughlan
- Written Answers — Direct Payment Schemes: Direct Payment Schemes (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The application under the 2005 single payment scheme for the person named has been fully processed and payment amounting to â¬6,757.30 issued on 24 January 2006.
- Written Answers — Direct Payment Schemes: Direct Payment Schemes (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The application under the 2005 single payment scheme for the person named has now been fully processed and payment will issue shortly.
- Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 111 and 119 together. I do not accept that there has been any delay on the part of my Department in the preparation of the revised farm waste management scheme. Last July I announced outline details of the proposed revised scheme. However, as the Deputies are aware, the approval of the European Commission is required for such from a state aids perspective. A...
- Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: My Department received 80 submissions as part of the REPS 4 consultative process, including one from the Heritage Council. All of these submissions will be considered in preparing Ireland's rural development plan for the period 2007-13 for submission to the European Commission. All those who made submissions, including the Heritage Council, have been invited to an open forum on 2 February...
- Written Answers — Direct Payment Schemes: Direct Payment Schemes (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted applications for consideration in respect of the new entrant and inheritance measures of the single payment scheme. Following processing of his new entrant application, the person named was notified that his application was unsuccessful, as he claimed no premia in the reference years 2000-02. However, his application requesting the inheritance measure to transfer...
- Written Answers — Direct Payment Schemes: Direct Payment Schemes (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The application under the 2005 single payment scheme for the person named has been fully processed and payment has issued.
- Written Answers — Direct Payment Schemes: Direct Payment Schemes (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The position is that when making allocations from the national reserve under the non-mandatory categories â new entrants and, in Ireland's case, certain hill sheep farmers with commonage land â the allocation must not have the effect of increasing the value of existing entitlements above the regional average value. Where new entitlements are being allocated from the reserve in such cases...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The position is that more than 23,000 applications for an allocation of entitlements from the national reserve were received when account is taken of farmers who applied under more than one category. Processing of these applications is continuing and the intention is to make allocations to successful applicants at the earliest opportunity. My Department will be in touch with individual...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application for an allocation of entitlements from the single payments scheme national reserve under category D. Category D caters for farmers who commenced farming after 31 December 2002 or who commenced farming in 2002 but who received no direct payments in respect of that scheme year. In addition the farmer must have either purchased or inherited land. The...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: In January 2005 the ownership details of the herd number quoted were transferred to the second person named above. However, the SPS application submitted in May 2005 was signed by the first named person resulting in a need to transfer the single payment entitlements from that person to the second person named. A SPS 10 application form was received in my Department on 19 January 2006 and has...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: No payment is due to the REPS participant as she indicated that she wished to terminate her REPS contract and retire from farming. Her daughter's application has been processed and payment will issue shortly.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application, on 28 October 2004, for consideration of his circumstances under the second tranche of the force majeure-exceptional circumstances measure of the single payment scheme. Having assessed the application the single payment entitlements unit informed the person named that the circumstances outlined did not fulfil the force majeure criteria laid down in...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application for an allocation of entitlements from the single payments scheme national reserve under category B. 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 during the...
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (25 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The European Communities (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2005, S.I. No. 788 of 2005, were made by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government on 11 December 2005 and will come into force on 1 February 2006. All farmers, including those in REPS, will be required to comply with the regulations. Farmers in REPS will not be required to amend...
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (25 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The implementation of the nitrates directive is a matter, in the first instance, for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, who signed regulations giving legal effect to Ireland's national action programme on nitrates on 11 December 2005. Ireland is proceeding with its request for a derogation designed to allow certain farmers to operate, under appropriate conditions...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application under the single payment scheme on 14 May 2005. Payment amounting to â¬43,729.77 in respect of the single payment scheme issued to the person named on 16 December 2005.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: An application under the 2005 single payment scheme was received from the person named on 10 May 2005. One land parcel was included on the application, which was processed by my Department and paid on 1 December 2005. The person named then contacted my Department to indicate that another land parcel had been omitted from his application. In accordance with the EU legislation governing the...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Parliamentary Questions Nos. 939 and 963 together. The person named established 49.45 entitlements under the single payment scheme. The person named declared a total of 32.03 eligible hectares and 17.70 forestry hectares in his 2005 single payment application. Under EU legislation, in order to draw down the full single payment an applicant must declare an eligible hectare in...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application under the single payment scheme on 27 April 2005. The application has been fully processed and payment has issued in respect of the single payment scheme to the person named.
- Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (25 Jan 2006)
Mary Coughlan: It appears from my Department's records that ownership of the rights of turbary, but not the fee simple, of the bogland in question is in the name of the Minister for Agriculture and Food, as successor to the former Land Commission. It is anticipated that a scheme for the allotment of the said rights of turbary will be prepared by my inspectorate later this year.