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- 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: What does that percentage represent in hectares?
- 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: Is that 44,000 hectares?
- 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 amounts to €250 per hectare.
- 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: For the State, it seems to me to be €1 million.
- 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: It will cost €1 million to sort out the fact that 44,000 hectares have been overclaimed. That means farmers have been paid for 44,000 hectares they should not have been paid for. Is that right?
- 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: I am not saying that. I am referring to the State or Ireland Inc.
- 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: Is that €8 million?
- 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: Is that €8 million out of €1.2 billion?
- 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: The single farm payment amounts to €8 million out of the €2 billion total. Some people in Brussels must be awful bored because, like a lot of things that people get excited about, this is peanut money in the greater scheme of things. This issue has caused a lot of personal grief to an awful lot of people, and has led to an awful lot of worry for older people, over a whole heap...
- 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: I am a little confused. Mr. Evans said that 70% of farmers have no problems, that means 30% of farmers have an issue. He then indicated that 2,500 farmers approximately were informed of the application deductions for the period from 2009 to 2012. I wish to establish whether it runs from 2008 to 2012 or from 2009 to 2012? Second, does that mean that the other 30,000 farmers are through the...
- 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: There are some 30,000 farmers who could potentially get a letter once the Commission auditors leave numbers telling them there is retrospection.
- 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: I know that, but there are some 30,000 farmers in the pool. Is that not correct?
- 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: How did Mr. Evans arrive at that figure?
- 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: I thank the witnesses for the detail they have given us. The LPIS process is causing huge grief. The major problem with the 2013 maps is that many of the features being picked out involve 0.01 ha or 0.02 ha. Some of it is a matter of opinion with regard to whether it is scrub with no grass growing on it and therefore not forage. Many farmers dispute this. The Department may state that an...
- 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: I welcome the efforts being made because last week the indications I received in the Dáil were very different. I accept that in the last week a lot of work has gone on. What Mr. Evans has outlined resolves the long-term issues for farmers. He has said if a farmer has a value of entitlement of €10,000 and had, say 50 ha and lost four hectares, the €10,000 stays and is...
- 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 very good news and I welcome it. I asked another question on the fencing requirement. There is no way farmers along the coast will have all the walls built this year. There is a regulation in the single farm.
- 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: I will put it in reverse. I am a farmer-----
- 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: Let us suppose it is a notifiable action to restore the land, and any land reclamation tends to be a notifiable action. Let us further suppose a farmer writes to NPWS to ask permission to carry out this work. I take it that until NPWS replies - and if that is ten or 20 years that is tough luck - the State cannot have double jeopardy for the farmer and the farmer is covered and can keep...
- 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: I understand we are dealing with both issues. I thank the delegates for attending and the clarification provided. However, what I am experiencing on the ground is slightly different from what has been presented, to which I will come shortly. There are two major issues, the first of which relates to flooding. Huge areas of land are flooded and, in many cases, this flooding could continue...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Court of Human Rights Rulings (20 Feb 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made in relation to the wider implications of a judgment (details supplied) in the European Court of Human Rights; the number of similar cases that are pending against the Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8727/14]