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Order of Business (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ní hí sin an cheist. As the Taoiseach knows, the taking over of group water schemes by local authorities was an important procedure. This responsibility has now transferred to Uisce Éireann, but I was informed by it last week that this transfer cannot continue at the moment because it needs legislation. When will the Water Services Bill, promised on the A list, come before...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My first question concerns climate, agriculture and the targets for reducing the carbon footprint. From negotiations to date, how much is the Irish cattle herd at risk because of climate change proposals? Is the Council of agriculture Ministers working to ensure that we continue to produce beef in the countries that can do it most carbon-efficiently and that there is a rebalancing of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish to deal with the LPIS. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine writes to the farmer setting out that he or she has over-claimed for a parcel of land, stating the range of penalties that apply depending on the extent of the over-claim. In other words, the farmer gets a lot of paper but very little information. When the farmer gets the letter, unless he or she can pull...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If I may ask one other question, the Department has a habit of posting letters to farmers about over-payments where it is looking for a refund of money. Most of those letters say the money must be paid back in seven days. The reality to those of us who know is that farmers will always do a deal with the Department that the money is recouped out of future grants. However, there are some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Was there a European Court ruling on NHAs that said we had to enforce them and that it was not totally at our discretion? That is where the whole issue arose. The witnesses might remember the issue of not cutting the NHA bogs. The Government could not just have dropped that because Europe said we could not. Could I ask-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have two questions. In regard to the Burren-type schemes, my understanding is that this time around, under the principle that one cannot get paid twice for the same thing, a farmer cannot get payments under GLAS for the hen harrier scheme and a Burren-type scheme because it is considered to be paying the person twice for the same thing. I am sure Deputy McNamara can correct me if I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not an expert on the carbon navigator. The Chairman might explain it. I do not doubt that a global figure for what the carbon navigator will give us under this scheme has been given. I do not know how it is calculated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry to be going back to mechanical things all the time, but I want to go back to what Mr. O'Driscoll said about locally led agri-environment schemes and the GLAS interface. If I were a farmer with a lot of designated land and if that was the easy way of getting my €7,000 without having to have low-input pastures and meadows, the walls and God knows what else, measures for hen...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 351. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments due will issue under the 2014 single payment scheme and the disadvantaged areas scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18362/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 356. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason full payments under the 2014 suckler cow scheme and the 2014 beef genomics scheme have not issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18446/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 372. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will meet representatives of the Forgotten Farmers Group, who have requested a meeting with him; if he is willing to grant preferential access to entitlements to these farmers, particularly those who did not receive installation aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18669/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Communications (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 373. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when information requested by the Department of Social Protection for the purpose of assessing eligibility for a State pension will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18670/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Data (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 374. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine based on the experience to date with the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme, the number of applicants he expects to have joined the scheme by the end of 2016, 2017 and 2018, respectively; the average payment per farmer it is hoped to achieve; the revised project payments under the scheme for these three years; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Expenditure (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 375. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the provision in his Department's 2015 estimates for expenditure under the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme, the beef genomics scheme, and the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme; and the expected out-turn expected with regard to these provisions. [18678/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Data (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 376. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have indicated actions under the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme, by county, under Tier 1,Tier 2, and Tier 3; the number of these that have commonage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18679/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 377. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine following the change in land eligibility rules, the estimated additional land that is likely to be applied for, as forage or as arable area, under the basic payment scheme in 2015; the estimated difference the new rules on eligibility of Natura land will make. [18680/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 378. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will be made to farmers under the agri-environment options scheme, whose payments have been held up due to an ongoing investigation of a supplier of trees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18681/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 379. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if fees have been negotiated with the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation, and with planners, in relation to the cost of compliance with the beef genomics scheme; the amount of these fees; the likely cost to farmers of compliance costs with this scheme, including the cost of processing the genetic information; the production of a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 419. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the body parts of a human body, washed up on shore at Hook Head in County Wexford, have been identified; the reason letters and other contacts from a person (details supplied) in County Cork have not been replied to by her Department, in view of the fact the family provided DNA samples; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18703/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (12 May 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 432. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to continue with the school completion programme; the funding that is being provided in 2015 as compared to 2014; when the local management committees will be able to inform groups implementing the programme whether the programme will operate for the forthcoming school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18702/15]