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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Would it be possible to get details from the Department of Finance on the take up of the various tax breaks that were introduced, which are welcome. I would not always praise the Irish Farmers' Association but its submission on this issue is comprehensive and reasonable. Of all the tax changes that are impacting on ordinary throughout the country, the reduction in the thresholds applying to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How much will be the natural savings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is that national as opposed to European savings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Let us be precise. Will the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform consider the full €25 million as a saving or will it view it as €25 million minus the EU clawback?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will there be a saving in respect of the fodder scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The €10 million for the scheme was found from somewhere else within the Vote.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister has told us the figures are available on the departmental website. I expected to receive a detailed brief outlining those figures. Instead, I did not receive the documentation, such as it was, until last night, and I had other meetings to prepare for this morning. Expecting each member to log onto the website and hunt down the figures is unacceptable and not conducive to a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I did not receive it until last night.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That type of practice is unhelpful. The Minister referred to mapping. I came across the case of a farmer who had an overclaim of 0.09 hectares on one plot and 0.01 hectares on another, amounting to 0.1 hectare in total. The penalty that has been imposed on him is €258 per year, multiplied by five years, which works out at €12,900 a hectare. This individual claims that some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is in this case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My point in regard to mapping is that the Department should not be clawing back any money until it has given people all the information and allowed them a chance to appeal. It is outrageous to begin taking back these moneys before people have time to initiate an appeal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have several questions on the general issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will it be possible to get the saving from REPS and, in addition, will the scheme be rolled over? The Minister indicated that he could not start a new agri-environment options scheme. Will he explain why the 3,000 people who are ready to go into AEOS are not being facilitated in doing so? Finally, how much would the €100 per cow suckler cow welfare scheme cost if it were implemented...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If I may ask two questions-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I would like to make a very brief overall comment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for coming in and providing the information. We got a lot more detailed information last year, however, and it was much easier to work out the figures. I presume the Department still has what used be called an NPC, or no policy change, and which later changed to an ELS, or existing level of service. It would be very useful to get a breakdown of the expected outturn for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is going to be told that that is fixed and we cannot go for €12 million in further administrative savings, because he will probably tell me that if there is another €5 million in savings to be made, the Department of Finance will grab that and we could not use it for giving out aid for suckler cows.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When we come to supports for farmers, including this year when we had the one-off support for the fodder scheme, it would be useful if we had the figures for what will be given to farmers next year at both EU and national level compared with what was given this year, as well as a list of the EU programme of single payments. It is very relevant to compare this year's single payment with next...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: 2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I accept that it has nothing to do with the single farm payment. We have to look at this from the Minister's point of view, but we also have to look at it from the point of view of the farmer who is trying to pay the bills. The first thing he will be hit with is the reduced single farm payment. That strengthens the case for the Minister to say to the Minister of caiteachas poiblí that...