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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is what he is doing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is exactly what he is doing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is very sensitive and he is right. If I were him I would be very sensitive about it because I never saw anybody preserve privilege as he is doing. All he is doing is preserving the rich and making them richer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is not rubbish.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I can.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I do know what I am talking about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, it would not. That is rubbish. The Minister is the one talking rubbish because he is talking about payments that do nothing with the farm.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Perhaps we might deal with agriculture today and fishing on another day. Each is a massive issue of itself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What about coming back to the Oireachtas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Surely the Minister has a double hat.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Has the Minister seen all the stuff in the newspapers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on CAP and CFP: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I apologise to the Chairman and the Minister for my late arrival. I had mechanical trouble with the car on the way up. I did not get the full import of what the Minister said and I regret that. That said, I call on the Minister to answer some questions here or else to get me the information. As the trilogue decides things is it possible to make known publicly what has been decided, or is...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Proposed Legislation (7 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 80. To ask the Minister for Defence when he proposes to introduce new legislation for the Red Cross; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21296/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ministerial Travel (7 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 82. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide a report on his St. Patrick's Day programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21312/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications (7 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 335. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made in relation to an agri environment option scheme 3 plan lodged by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21235/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (7 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 337. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on the application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare for the disadvantaged area scheme 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21257/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Harvesting Rights: Discussion with Irish Timber Council (2 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It would be useful for us to get clarification from Coillte on its selling policy. A further issue is that some of the land sold was low-productivity land in terms of forest. It owned all sorts of bits of land.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Harvesting Rights: Discussion with Irish Timber Council (2 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If we found that out today, we would be awfully grateful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Harvesting Rights: Discussion with Irish Timber Council (2 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Give or take, that is what I thought. They predominately go to the private sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Harvesting Rights: Discussion with Irish Timber Council (2 May 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Then one must acknowledge that there were 22 years in which we did not have to give Coillte €100 million because it has been self-sustaining. I am concerned about Coillte's sale of land. It is a matter to which the committee should address itself. I was fascinated by what Mr. Fahy had to say. It is fair to say that he, his father, Mr. P. J. Fahy, and Connacht Gold have done a...