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Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We should keep going on this question. It is a good question.

Other Questions: EU Regulations (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Let us hope it is the right decision.

Other Questions: Equine Industry Issues (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What was the figure for last year?

Other Questions: Equine Industry Issues (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for the reply. He has outlined the problem very well. He has not given much indication in regard to solutions. I wonder what the Minister intends to do to deal with this problem because we have a real problem. I agree with him that we must be sure about standards but has he any proposals, for example, to introduce a scrappage scheme through which money would be made...

Other Questions: Equine Industry Issues (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome the indication from the Minister that he will come into the committee. The Chairman is sitting behind him and I am sure he will be amenable to that proposal. We look forward to that debate. When the Minister comes into the committee there is one issue that deserves serious consideration, and it is an EU issue. Why is it that the standards that apply within the European Union...

Other Questions: Equine Industry Issues (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a human health issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to date in the Common Agricultural Policy negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29488/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is the Minister confident there will be agreement on the four regulations?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will a minimum payment on the single payment form part of the agreement? Will the Minister be able to achieve an option of a reference year of either 2012 or 2013 - in other words an historical reference year rather any future one?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Before I ask my second supplementary question, I welcome and congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Tom Hayes. I know his commitment to farming and I am sure he will do an outstanding job in the new role he has been given. Would the Minister not agree that his proposals on internal convergence and greening do not reflect productivity, if productivity of livestock farms is measured by...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Would the Minister not agree that the relativities he is trying to protect have no relationship to productivity?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme Projects (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 12. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the process involved in approving and implementing the rural development programme 2014-2020; the time frame within which it is expected that each element of the programme will be rolled out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29361/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 28. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of eligible farmers that were not approved for the agri-environment option scheme 3 due to the prioritisation of certain types of farmer for the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29359/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale (19 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 173. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made in relation to the proposal to sell the forest crop of Coillte; the reason for the delay in making the decision despite his previous undertaking to Dáil Éireann on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29489/13]

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBurnreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The only way around this is to have each person as a member of two committees, and even then I will only have 12 members. When I take into account, as most will be aware from committees, that there is probably one third on most committees in general who are poor attenders, one third who come in for a while and leave, and one third who stick it out every day and do a great deal of work, by...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBurnreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Acting Chairman himself has been known to get the odd minute.

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBurnreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There has been constant talk about the need for expertise in Cabinet. As the late Dr. Garret FitzGerald did, it is possible for a Taoiseach to pick two members of the public who have never stood for election, appoint them as part of his or her 11 nominees to the Seanad and put them straight into Cabinet. In other words, it is possible for the Taoiseach to include in his 15 members of...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBurnreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Before the Deputy who spoke before me leaves the House, I wish to refer to the university Senators. Before independence and up to 1937, there were Teachtaí Dála and MPs. It was something we inherited from the British. They were elected to the House of Commons when the Dáil was set up in 1919. There were Senators from the National University of Ireland, NUI, and from Trinity...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Management of Upland Habitats in County Wicklow: Discussion with Wicklow Uplands Council (18 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sorry; I was at another meeting and could not attend earlier. There is a great deal of sense in the various points the delegates have raised. I would like to address my colleagues and the delegates on the single farm payment issue. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has produced figures for me based on productivity, excluding tillage farmers. What they show is that...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Equipment (18 Jun 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 28. To ask the Minister for Defence if he is satisfied that the Defence Forces mission to Lebanon has been supplied with apparel appropriate to the local environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29097/13]