Results 16,841-16,860 of 18,593 for speaker:Michael Creed
- Suckler Cow Welfare Scheme. (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: I appreciate that the Government and the Department are having to operate under difficult financial constraints. The Minister will accept that beef production is a marginal enterprise. It is a part-time enterprise for many people. Will the Minister consider revising the terms of the suckler cow welfare scheme so that an â¬80 level of payment can be guaranteed to all farmers for their...
- Suckler Cow Welfare Scheme. (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: The Minister can accept it, but will he implement it?
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: Zero tolerance.
- Dairy Sector. (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made with the EU Commission regarding support for the dairy industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12209/09]
- Dairy Sector. (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: There is unanimity on all sides of the House regarding the crisis. Most people are interested in hearing about what progress in being made to deliver a solution, not just at the farm gate where, at prices of 20 cent a litre, many farmers will milk cows twice daily for no financial return. Another issue is the processing sector where, in the previous milk year, processors probably subvented...
- Dairy Sector. (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: What most farmers are concerned about is how the Minister's statement will translate into their monthly milk cheque. At a price of 20 cent a litre, it is a loss-making enterprise for farmers. Will what the Minister has achieved deliver 26 cent a litre, which is the target figure for profitable milk production? Anything less than that will not bring any comfort to the dairy sector which for...
- Farm Waste Management. (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how he will finance the commitments made under the farm waste management scheme for 2009 in view of the shortfall in his Department's Estimates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12210/09]
- Farm Waste Management. (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: I assure the Minister that I am not seeking any budgetary figures and do not intend to probe into confidential Cabinet deliberations. Does the Minister accept there is a shortfall of â¬105 million in his Department's capacity to make the 40% payments in 2009? Farmers seek an assurance that the payments they are receiving under various schemes will not be reduced. In other words, there...
- Farm Waste Management. (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: Will the Minister answer the question? Is there a shortfall of â¬105 million?
- Farm Waste Management. (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: We are not interested in that. Will the Minister answer the question I have put to him?
- Farm Waste Management. (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: We know all that.
- Farm Waste Management. (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: I will put my question to the Minister once again. Will he confirm that the shortfall is currently â¬105 million? Will he also confirm that in order to make up that shortfall there will be no cutback in other schemes under which farmers benefit? I mention, for example, the suckler cow welfare scheme. Will the Minister give an assurance that disadvantaged area payments will not be...
- Farm Waste Management. (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: How?
- Farm Waste Management. (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: How will the Government make up the shortfall? A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, are we not entitled to an answer to the question on the Questions Order Paper, which asksââ
- Farm Waste Management. (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: ââthe manner in which the Minister will finance the commitments made in view of the shortfall. Will he confirm the shortfall is â¬105 million? Will there be a Supplementary Estimate?
- Farm Waste Management. (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: So there will be a Supplementary Estimate. There will be no cutbacks in the Department.
- Common Agricultural Policy. (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the way he will allocate the unspent CAP funds in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12211/09]
- Common Agricultural Policy. (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: A maximum payment of â¬525 per sheep farmer will do nothing to arrest the alarming decline in sheep numbers and in particular the decimation of sheep stock with the slaughter of ewes in recent years. The Minister's decision is motivated more by the numbers game rather than any strategic analysis of what the industry needs and flies in the face of the Malone report, for example, which...
- Common Agricultural Policy. (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: Why did the Minister not link it to ewe numbers?
- Common Agricultural Policy. (24 Mar 2009)
Michael Creed: The Fianna Fáil 2007 general election manifesto promised â¬27.5 million for the sheep industry to tackle the type of issues specifically identified in the Malone report, particularly the issue of the alarming decline in the number of breeding ewes in the country. That would have been the correct strategic decision to make. While I accept that the â¬7 million available is nowhere near...