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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (23 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: Grant-aid under the Farm Waste Management Scheme was paid to the above-named person on 13 October 2008.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (23 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme /Disadvantaged Area Compensatory Allowance Scheme was received from the person named on the 14th May 2008. As part of the control procedures under EU legislation governing these Schemes, this application was selected for and was the subject of a ground eligibility inspection on the 8th August. The file is currently being processed and it is...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (23 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: Valid applications received under the Young Farmers' Installation Scheme up to and including 14 October 2008 will be processed by my Department.

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (23 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: Since the original decentralisation announcement, my Department made no specific provision for expenditure nor has there been any specific expenditure recorded in relation to the proposed move. The Office of Public Works deals with the acquisition of property for the decentralisation programme and they recently informed my Department that a site had been identified and that a price had been...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (23 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: Valid applications received under the Young Farmers' Installation Scheme up to and including 14 October 2008 will be processed by my Department.

Written Answers — Agricultural Schemes: Agricultural Schemes (23 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: The cost of the Suckler Welfare Scheme is €250 million over the five years 2008-2012. The cost will be around €77 million for 2008, at a rate of €80 per cow. There are almost 54,000 suckler farmers currently participating in the scheme, and to remain within the €250 million budget, it will be necessary to reduce the rate of payment in future years by reference to the actual level of...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (23 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: The overall cost of incremental pay increases is determined by the numbers of staff qualifying for increments and the stage in the year from which payments are made. Precise information is not readily available but the estimated cost for my Department is as follows: â'¬2,054,200 â'¬2,245,590. Incremental increases awarded by State Agencies which come under the remit of my Department are...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (23 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: The estimated annual cost to my Department of the 2.5% September 2008 pay increase arising under Towards 2016 is approximately €3.972 million. The estimated cost to my Department of the 3.5% pay increase with effect form 1 September 2009, arising under the recently negotiated draft pay agreement under Towards 2016, is €2.776m in 2009 and €8.333m in a full year. The estimated annual...

Written Answers — Harbours and Piers: Harbours and Piers (21 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: My Department has provided significant funding for the development in Greencastle since it commenced in 2007. In the current year €3.6 million has been provided for the construction of the breakwater. As the 2009 Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme has not yet been drafted I am not in a position to state the level of funding available for Greencastle or any...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (21 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: The bulk of capital expenditure for my Department relates to payments to individual farmers under demand led schemes involving capital expenditure at farm level. Attached are details of the total capital expenditure for each year since 1997. A detailed breakdown by county for the period in question is not readily available and would take an inordinate amount of time to complete. However, if...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (21 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: The Single Payment Scheme application for the person named has been fully processed and any payment due will issue shortly. In addition the person named submitted an application under Category A of the 2008 National Reserve. Category A caters for farmers who inherited land or received land free of charge or for a nominal sum from a farmer who had retired or died by 16 May, 2005 and who had...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (21 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: While under the EU regulations governing the Single Payment Scheme, the earliest date payments may issue is 1 December of the scheme-year concerned, provision is also made for payments to be made earlier, subject to EU approval. Prompted by the very wet summer, which seriously affected farming, I approached the Agriculture Commissioner seeking agreement to an early advance 50% payment, in...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (21 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: The person named is not currently the registered owner of the herd number quoted. An application under 2008 Single Payment Scheme was received on 6 May 2008 in the name of the father of the person named. An official of my Department is in direct contact with the person named with a view to regularising the position, in order that payment may issue at an early date.

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (21 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: My Department has supplied all of the information sought by the Ombudsman in relation to her examination and subsequent formal investigation into the Lost at Sea Scheme. The Ombudsman will decide when her investigation is finalised and when a report on the matter will be published. The Department will of course provide any further information if requested by the Ombudsman.

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (21 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: The purpose of the Lost at Sea Scheme was to enable qualifying applicants, who were otherwise unable to do so for financial or related reasons, to provide replacement capacity for the purposes of introducing a replacement vessel in respect of fishing boats lost at sea between 1980 and the establishment of the fishing boat register in 1990, in order to continue a family tradition of...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (21 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: My Department submits a quarterly return to the Decentralisation Implementation Group detailing the non-property costs of the programme. To the end of June 2008, the last reporting deadline, the costs reported for the programme to date amounted to €147,031 (see table for details by year). Figures for the third quarter will be available at the end of October. Year € 2006 23,278 2007...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (21 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: The original Government decision on the decentralisation of my Department was that 600 headquarters staff would move to Portlaoise; some 100 staff in the local offices in Cork city would move to Fermoy; and up to 100 staff in the laboratories in Cork and Limerick would move to Macroom. Fisheries joined the Department in 2007 and the move of that function of my Department to Clonakilty is now...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (21 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: Applications received under the Farm Improvement Scheme prior to its suspension on 31 October 2007 are being processed by my Department up to the level of funding provided for the Scheme in the 2006 Partnership agreement, Towards 2016.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (21 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: The information requested is set out in a table. It includes staff in my Department who availed of Cost Neutral Early Retirement (CNER) introduced in 2005 and staff whose early retirement on ill health grounds was approved by the Minister for Finance. Year Ill health Pensions Ill health Lump sums CNER Pensions CNER Lump sums â'¬ â'¬ â'¬ â'¬ 2003 (from 1/11/2003) 17,037.60...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (21 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: In relation to the amount spent on staff who replaced those who took early retirement in each of the past five years, a table sets out the salary cost for replacement staff. Staff retiring early were not replaced in all cases. Year Total salary cost â'¬ 2004 95,625 2005 192,632 2006 132,701 2007 256,690 2008 193,581