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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How is it in conflict with the Bill to have a regulatory impact analysis?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There would be nothing to stop the Minister doing one before the Act would be commenced.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Second Stage is only the principle of the Bill. There is nothing of principle in this. It is only a practical matter that we would have a regulatory impact analysis before we commence the Act.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can I ask the general question of the Minister of State? Is it intended, even at this late stage, to give us the regulatory impact analysis and why was it not done? It is amazing. The Bill, A to Z, is all about regulation.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister of State can comment on it.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That does not stop the Minister of State giving a commitment here to do a regulatory impact analysis.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I accept that and I am asking the general question before we start because we are at a considerable disadvantage here in dealing with this Bill. Since regulation is what the Bill, from A to Z, is all about and we do not have the one vital tool we need, which is the regulatory impact of all of this before we start, I do not know whether there is any point in taking part in this debate. That...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Minister of State clarify for us that the idea of a regulatory impact assessment is to enable us, and no doubt the Minister, assess the probable impact of his initial proposals and whether they add unduly to the regulatory burden? We have no independent assessment of what this Bill is likely to do. There has been considerable concern raised with us about the regulatory impact of...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister of State is undertaking that there are regulations being brought in-----

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of two class teacher, three teacher, four teacher and five teacher, excluding learning support and resource teachers but including teaching principals, schools that have lost teachers in the school years commencing September 2012 and 2013; the number due to lose teachers in September 2014; the name, address and roll number of each...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad iad na beartais sa Straitéis Fiche Bliain don Ghaeilge a bhaineann lena Roinn atá curtha i bhfeidhm go dtí seo, agus na beartais a bhfuil sé i gceist iad a chur i bhfeidhm; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [8906/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (25 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 582. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the 2013 single payment and disadvantaged areas schemes will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9228/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coastal Farm Holdings: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is the nub of the problem. It is fine that the Department wrote these letters to people, but most farmers thought they had made enough adjustments for the features, as Mr. Evans called them. Rocks are very hard to measure, scrub is always going to be a point of argument and other features are hard to measure when one gets down to the micro level of these maps. A farmer does not have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coastal Farm Holdings: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes; we want to be very accurate. I presume that there are a few more digits after that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coastal Farm Holdings: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Exactly. We could probably add a few more digits. It could be like pi and be without end. If we deem 1 hectare to be 2.471 acres, then 0.1 hectares equals 0.24 of an acre. That is not an awful lot of land for somebody to measure accurately, particularly when talking about rocks and things. Another problem that I find annoying, and which many farmers find awful strange, is to do with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coastal Farm Holdings: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, only if they are in REPS 4.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coastal Farm Holdings: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If I decided in 2018 to record all of my 20 hectares, for example, on the application, with only ten acres recorded as eligible, then I could double my payments on the ten acres, yet still be on the right side of things forever. Perhaps that is an exaggeration. Let us say I recorded 19 of the 20 hectares and stacked it. Therefore, the only difficulty would be that one could not go up or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coastal Farm Holdings: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One will not go up as much or one will not come down as much.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coastal Farm Holdings: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Under the EU regulations the Commission has a right to impose a flat rate correction of 2%, 5% or 10%. If one is 99.9% accurate can the Commission still impose a fine of 2%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coastal Farm Holdings: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To date, and cumulatively, 132,000 have been done. Let us say every appeal fails. What percent is the overclaim out of the total amount of land involved?