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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events Response (26 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: They might get a few bob from the community welfare officer but they are not getting any social welfare entitlements because they are deemed to be self-employed.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events Response (26 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: Through the community welfare officers.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events Response (26 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: I have just one supplementary question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events Response (26 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: The Minister referred to them having no income for ten weeks. What are they to do for those ten weeks?

Other Questions: Fallen Animal Collection Scheme (26 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: 6. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review his Department's ruling in January 2014 which restricts knackeries from bringing fallen animals aged more than 48 months to a rendering plant outside a 125 km zone. [13208/14]

Other Questions: Fallen Animal Collection Scheme (26 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: I presume the Minister is aware of the 125 km zone and the effect it is having on farmers with fallen animals. I ask the Minister to revisit the directive and revert to the previous situation because it is causing undue hardship.

Other Questions: Fallen Animal Collection Scheme (26 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: The Minister should look at it again. Restricting fallen cattle aged more than 48 months to a 125 km zone is resulting in collaboration between knackeries in the area to fix the price due to a lack of competition. Those living in Border areas used to be able to take their fallen animals across the Border and it was far cheaper for them. I will ask the farming organisation that contacted me...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events Response (26 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: 5. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has applied for help from the European Union solidarity fund to aid Irish fishermen who have not been able to put to sea for months. [13994/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events Response (26 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: Every Member of the House is aware of the terrible weather we have experienced since the middle of December and the effect it has had on fishing communities. Has the Minister sought any funding from the European Union Solidarity Fund to help alleviate the crisis for inshore fishermen whose boats effectively have been tied up since last December?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Live Exports (26 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: That is the reason the price is decreasing.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Live Exports (26 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: 2. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has attempted to procure export markets for live Irish beef to help alleviate the crisis being experienced by farmers here. [13993/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Live Exports (26 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: The Minister is probably aware of the reduction, not the collapse, in beef prices. My question pertains to live exports. What has he done about live exports? Has he opened new markets abroad? What is the potential in this regard?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Live Exports (26 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: I thank the Minister for the reply. It is welcome that there was an increase in live exports of 25% in 2013. The Minister mentioned a shipment of 2,500 bulls to Libya, which is also to be welcomed. However, there are a number of problems in the beef sector. One is that, despite the Minister's best efforts, not enough bulls are being exported. There are not enough live exports in total....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Live Exports (26 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: The immediate problem concerns live exports and, as Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív said, bulls.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Live Exports (26 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: Live exportation removes pressure in terms of oversupply. Where there is oversupply and a cartel is operating-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Live Exports (26 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: I applaud and I am fully supportive of the Minister's point on jobs retention and processing. However, if producers are not making a living, the market will collapse in any case because they will no longer produce. This aspect must be considered also. It is welcome that the Minister is trying to open more markets abroad for live exports in addition to slaughtered beef. While this is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020 Strategy (26 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: 16. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the drop in cattle prices, if he is confident that we can achieve our Food Harvest 2020 targets. [13209/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (26 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: 24. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action he will take to ensure the super trawler (details supplied) fully complied with all regulations during its time in Irish waters; and if he availed of the facility to put officers of the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority on board to observe its activity in Irish waters. [13205/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Administration (26 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: 28. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to compensate those farmers who had leased their lands in 2013, but now find that since that is the reference year, that they are obliged to sell the entitlements attached to it due to Common Agricultural Policy reforms. [13206/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Grassland and Single Farm Payments: Irish Farmers Association (25 Mar 2014)

Martin Ferris: Do the witnesses think it is possible to protect that €18 million by moving the grassland scheme into the single farm payment? Do they have any methodology in mind that could protect it?