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Other Questions: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 8. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date of the announcement of the Agri-Environment Option Scheme, AEOS; the date for the closure of receipt of applications for this scheme; the amount paid to farmers to date under AEOS 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20341/14]

Other Questions: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: From the time of the Agri-Environment Option Scheme, AEOS, 3 scheme was announced until first payment was made, what time span was involved?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Administration (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I asked the Minister how many would be penalised retrospectively over what I understand can be up to five years. It is very important that we get that figure. Does the Minister have a breakdown of the penalty applied? In other words, 33,000 farmers made some mistake, and to think that these set out to give the wrong data to the Department is outrageous.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Administration (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How many of these are on land holdings of less than 20 hectares? Does the proportion of farmers who got caught in this system increase as the farm size decreases? A question I asked the Department previously is what percentage of those who were penalised because they had an error of more than 3%, which means they lose three times the overclaim, had land acreage of less than 20 ha. It is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Administration (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister give me the facts? I was not looking for a moral lecture.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Administration (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I asked a question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Administration (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Why? It is easy enough to get.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Administration (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister get me the data on how many people have been asked for retrospective payments? Will the Minister arrange for that to be sent to me?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Administration (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 4. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of penalties and disallowances imposed on the 2013 single farm payment applications and disadvantaged payment applications following inspections and also the examination of farmers' maps; the total monetary value of these penalties; the total number of farmers who have had a 100% penalty imposed; and if he will make...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Administration (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Everywhere I go I meet farmers who complain that their single farm payment was cut last year because of the inspections and changes to the maps. There seem to be significant difficulties in the west of the Minister's county. I ask the Minister to provide me with factual information as to the effect of all these penalties on farmers across the country last year and, in particular,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Administration (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister has given out a lot of figures. It looked great at the beginning; I thought to myself, "My God, only 2,000 were penalised." However, it then turned out that the figure was really 33,000. Will the Minister confirm that 33,000 represents over one quarter of all farmers?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Administration (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, I know, but I still got the attention of the Minister. How many of these farmers will be penalised retrospectively because of the recalibration of the LPIS? An ordinary farmer could never have carried out these calculations with the accuracy required by the Department.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Single Payment Scheme Administration (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is not going away.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Grassland Sheep Scheme Expenditure (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It must go down as a classic phrase, "We are trying to look after them next year and the year after." That is exactly what the Minister is doing. As one goes to the next year and the year after that, for the vast majority of sheep farmers and virtually every hill sheep farmer who do not have any choice of enterprise, the payments will totally dissipate into the maw of single farm payments.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Grassland Sheep Scheme Expenditure (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a fact for virtually all hill sheep farmers because they have very low single farm payments. They will be coming up to the €150 which is there anyway. Therefore, what the Minister is saying is that he will look after them next year and the following year once we get over the election. After that their payment will disappear. On what grounds is the Minister not willing to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Grassland Sheep Scheme Expenditure (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a coupled payment for sheep farmers under the Common Agricultural Policy 2014-20; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20373/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Grassland Sheep Scheme Expenditure (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish the Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney, the best of luck today. God knows what it might bring. This question relates to what he intends to do for sheep farmers. He has made a proposal to include the grassland sheep scheme in the single farm payment scheme. For most farmers, this would mean that the grassland scheme would disappear into the single farm payment scheme by 2019. Many...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Grassland Sheep Scheme Expenditure (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister agree that if the €15 million fund is used in the way he has proposed, the vast majority of farmers will see their share of the fund reduced by one fifth every year between now and 2019? Under his proposed arrangement, by 2019 they will be getting no benefit whatsoever from the grassland scheme. I suggest he put the €15 million fund back into the single farm...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Grassland Sheep Scheme Expenditure (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, the genomic scheme involves a coupled payment. If my suggestion were adopted, it would ensure the €15 million fund would continue to be available to sheep farmers in the next five years, rather than being reduced by one fifth every year. Does the Minister agree that this is the factual position?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Severe Weather Events Response (8 May 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 17. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of applications received by Bord Íascaigh Mhara for the lobster pot and shrimp pot loss compensation scheme, being administered by BIM on behalf of his Department; the number of these applications deemed valid; the estimated cost of compensation based on these applications; the amount paid to date; and if he...