Results 16,461-16,480 of 18,593 for speaker:Michael Creed
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (20 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 543: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 459 of 13 October 2009, when he will make a decision on an application under the installation aid scheme which has been lodged by a person (details supplied) in County Cork over 12 months ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37254/09]
- Written Answers — Animal Diseases: Animal Diseases (20 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 548: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will consider changing the rules regarding tuberculosis testing which currently obliges farmers who are selling animals direct to slaughtering facilities to retest cattle that are more than 12 months since their last TB test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37295/09]
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (20 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 551: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason for the delay in processing the outcome of a field inspection in relation to a disadvantaged area payment for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37539/09]
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme. (15 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of farmers participating in the rural environmental protection scheme on the date the scheme was suspended; the number of farmers whose REP scheme plans have since expired; the number expected to expire by the end of 2009 and 2010; if his attention has been drawn to the impact that this decision is having on...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme. (15 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: I thank the Minister for his reply and I implore him to step back, even at this late stage, from this madness and economic folly by the Government. What the Minister will save will be spent by the Minister for Social and Family Affairs on an increased number of farm assist payments. Rounded up, the figures given by the Minister suggest that by the end of 2010, approximately 20,000 less than...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme. (15 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: Does the Minister accept that a knock-on effect of his decision will be to force more farmers onto farm assist? On the basis that REPS is 45% co-financed by Europe this is a false economy as the State pays 100% of farm assist payments. Did the Minister read the full McCarthy report prior to glancing at that initial recommendation of suspending access to REPS 4? It stated that a full value...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme. (15 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: The Department had an input into it. It made recommendations.
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme. (15 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: The best service for farmers is REPS 4.
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme. (15 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: It is 55:45.
- Beef Exports. (15 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the initiatives he plans to introduce to deal with the income collapse of beef farmers in view of the collapse in the price of store and finished beef cattle; his plans to assist with live exports of cattle to the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36517/09]
- Beef Exports. (15 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: Does the Minister support live exports?
- Beef Exports. (15 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: The critical issue for returns to Irish beef farmers from live exports is that the live cattle exported to the United Kingdom can be slaughtered there. Over the years this State, through its various agencies, has delivered substantial grant aid to Irish meat processors and is delivering in the region of â¬50 million in grant aid under the meat investment fund to the main players who are...
- Beef Exports. (15 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: Did the Minister meet the Goodman group?
- Beef Exports. (15 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: The Minister will go on paying the grants until he gets a bit of cop on.
- Beef Exports. (15 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: Has the Minister met with the meat plants? They are the problem. His Department and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment will pay them â¬50 million in grant aid and give them work permits. This is nothing short of national sabotage by the meat plants that operate in Ireland and the UK. We have no problem exporting live bull beef to Italy, or calves to Holland but we have a...
- Beef Exports. (15 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: I have not got an answer yet.
- Beef Exports. (15 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: What did they say?
- Fishing Vessels. (15 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: We had that in a written reply.
- Fishing Vessels. (15 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: Tactics.
- Fishing Vessels. (15 Oct 2009)
Michael Creed: On a point of order, Deputy Sheahan raised a material question, namely, whether the Minister has taken advice in his Department. This is outrageous.