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- Other Questions: Value for Money Reviews (21 Jan 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he expects to publish the value for money report on small schools; the reason for the delay in publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2275/14]
- Other Questions: Value for Money Reviews (21 Jan 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Small primary schools are the lifeblood of local rural communities. They have given outstanding outcomes in respect of both the academic achievements of the graduates of those schools and the social coherence they have created. They are under constant attack by people in ivory towers and the Minister appears to be one of the cheerleaders in this campaign. The Minister has had carried out...
- Other Questions: Value for Money Reviews (21 Jan 2014)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister tells me he is unable to give a precise date. I would be more than willing to accept an imprecise date today. Does the Minister envisage that the report will be published within one, two or three months? I would be more than happy were the Minister to give me the date within a month. That would be a fair and happy compromise, because I can understand that things get delayed...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: Why is there no scheme for half of the farmers, that is, those who will not be in the beef genomic scheme, both to help a wonderful sector and try to continue to improve the quality of animals through ordinary husbandry and all of the other measures?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Minister tell us what record-keeping will be involved? It is not just a question of taking a sample, as all the data must be provided, in addition to records. My experience shows that some of the best farmers are not into records, as all of us note every week.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: The 2014 scheme.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: Has the Minister examined the instruction pack and asked himself whether the typical farmer will feel happy with it?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: They represent the top 10%. I want the Minister’s view on the 90%.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: I know. They represent the top 10%. Let us get down to the ordinary farmer.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a problem because half of the farmers have already opted out and are not improving their herds according to the criteria of the suckler cow welfare scheme.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister agree to provide for me in the next few days the data required under the beef genomic scheme this year according to the pack?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not a farmer. Will the Minister give it to me?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister explain why the Dairy Science Laboratory is now being covered under subhead B.3.21 and not under the Department's administrative budget, as was the case previously?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: On the Horse and Greyhound Fund, is that €54.2 million in addition to or inclusive of the betting tax?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: How much does that bring in?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: How much does the betting tax yield?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: That is what I thought.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: Would the Minister be in favour of raising the betting tax rate to 3%? The reason it was reduced was because punters were migrating to online betting but they will not be able to do that now. Does the Minister favour hypothecation?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: On the genotyping, nobody can argue against what the Department is doing. The use of technology makes much sense. Must the data be provided for all of the calves even though 1.5 in ten will be sampled? The Minister stated he hoped to reach 600,000 calves; presumably, he meant 15% of them. There are many more calves than that in the country. There was a suckler cow welfare scheme. It...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Éamon Ó Cuív: What about the farmers-----