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Written Answers — Forestry Sector: Forestry Sector (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: A Limited Felling Licence was issued by the Forest Service of my Department to the person named on the 28th November 2008.

Written Answers — Harbours and Piers: Harbours and Piers (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: Rathmullan Pier is owned by Donegal County Council and responsibility for its repair, maintenance and development rests with the Local Authority in the first instance. My Department provided €50,625 in funding to Donegal County Council for this location in 2007 as part of the Fishery Harbours & Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme. However no application for funding was made by...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: The terms and conditions of the Farm Waste Management Scheme explicitly provide that— (a) the grant shall be calculated on the basis of the eligible receipts presented by the farmer or my Department's Standard Costs, whichever is the lesser, and (b) investments grant-aided under the preceding versions of the Scheme are taken into account in determining the level of eligible investment...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: The following table shows the staff numbers in my Department based at Dockgate Building, Merchants Road, Galway in the years 2004-2008: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Agri Environment Schemes 19.0 17.0 20.0 20.00 19.00 District Livestock Office 27.5 26.4 District Veterinary Office 55.0 54.0 57.0 48.96 48.46 Integrated Controls 17.0 16.0 16.0 13.00 15.00 Services Staff 1.0 1.0 1.00 1.00...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: The person named is an applicant under the Farm Waste Management Scheme. Payment will be made by my Department to the person concerned shortly.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: The person concerned is an applicant under the Installation Aid Scheme. His application for payment is currently being examined and a decision will be made in regard to the application as soon as possible.

Recall of Irish Pork and Bacon Products: Statements (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: I want to be clear about this. Indicative tests on a sample of pork fat routinely taken under the Department's national residue monitoring programme were found to be positive for non-dioxin-like marker PCBs at the Department's laboratory at Backweston. That was on Friday 28 November, not September. Deputy Crawford, Deputy Ó Caoláin and I know many pig producers and people working in the...

Recall of Irish Pork and Bacon Products: Statements (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: An extremely important point was made by Deputy Creed and others. On Sunday, through the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Micheál Martin, and his Department's senior management, we contacted all our embassies in the relevant countries and appraised them of the situation. We gave them a particular message to get out to the markets. Bord Bia has been in discussion with people who have...

Recall of Irish Pork and Bacon Products: Statements (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: A sample of pork was taken in a pig processing facility——

Recall of Irish Pork and Bacon Products: Statements (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: Yes. That was the first time. There was no indication from anybody before that. When the Dutch authorities were sampling products, this included products from any number of countries, so they could not pinpoint where it came from.

Recall of Irish Pork and Bacon Products: Statements (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: We circulate within the European Union——

Recall of Irish Pork and Bacon Products: Statements (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: No. We had no word from anybody.

Recall of Irish Pork and Bacon Products: Statements (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: No. The Dutch had no grounds to circulate the information to anybody because they had not identified the source or traced the problem back to a particular place. It was our investigations that initiated the train of actions that occurred.

Recall of Irish Pork and Bacon Products: Statements (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: Immediately on——

Recall of Irish Pork and Bacon Products: Statements (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: The Department examined where this particular pig producer was sourcing its supply of feed, and then immediately went to the facility and obtained the customer list.

Recall of Irish Pork and Bacon Products: Statements (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: What is the question?

Recall of Irish Pork and Bacon Products: Statements (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: No. The previous inspection——

Recall of Irish Pork and Bacon Products: Statements (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: No. I did not say that. I am talking about the facility in Carlow. The previous inspections did not show up any problems.

Recall of Irish Pork and Bacon Products: Statements (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: Is the Deputy talking about similar food-milling operations?

Recall of Irish Pork and Bacon Products: Statements (9 Dec 2008)

Brendan Smith: I have no information with me, but I will communicate with the Deputy this evening in that regard.