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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Trade Agreements (14 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: The Minister will be aware that the second largest beef producer in Canada, XL Foods Inc., had its operation closed down due to an E.coli outbreak. A $10 million court case was brought by people who became ill due to the outbreak. The plant owners have claimed that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's testing practices at the time were not stringent enough to protect consumers from the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Trade Agreements (14 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: As the Minister said, the concern is that it opens the door and once the door is opened, where does it end? The concern for Irish producers is whether they can compete, given the traceability and stringent measures that are applicable here, with countries over which the EU has no control and which do not have a very good track record.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Parcel Review (14 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 154. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the clawback of single farm payments and the ongoing land parcel review; if he will clarify the number of land parcels that have been reviewed to date; of those reviewed to date, the number that had over claims; the number of farmers to which this relates; the average and range of the over claim in percentage...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Quotas (13 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 155. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the proposed increase in mackerel quota of 300,000 tonnes will be allocated to EU countries or countries outside of the EU. [48564/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Agreements (13 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 148. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the standards which will be applied to Canadian beef and pork imports to Ireland as a result of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement signed between the EU and Canada last month. [48557/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Agreements (13 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 149. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions he is taking to prevent the same market access concessions as were given to Canada in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement being made available to the United States during its current negotiations of a trade deal with the EU. [48558/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Milk Quota Trading Scheme (13 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 150. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the volume of milk quota being offered, and being sought, by Irish farmers in circumstances where the State has exceeded its quota six months before the quota year ends. [48559/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry Development (13 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 151. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form, on an annual basis for the past five years, the value of exports of thoroughbred horses and the number of horses being exported. [48560/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Quotas (13 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 152. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Sentinel herring quota for small vessels in the Dunmore box will be lost if the quota is not fulfilled in the period specified in 2013. [48561/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Quotas (13 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 153. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the sentinel herring quota for small vessels in the Dunmore box is not fulfilled before 27 December 2013 he will allow a period in January 2014 for the quota to be fulfilled. [48562/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Quotas (13 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 154. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Sentinel herring quota for small vessels in the Dunmore box is not fulfilled in 2013, that it will not be reduced in 2014. [48563/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Quotas (13 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 156. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the situation whereby Dutch factory vessels in Irish waters remain at sea for an entire year with half the mackerel quota that Irish vessels have, while Irish vessels may remain at sea for only half a year, due to lack of quota. [48565/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbour Authority Properties (12 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 371. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to publicly advertise a public competitive tendering process for the leasing of vacant properties, at State-owned fishery harbour centres, including Howth, County Dublin, in the near future; when this process might begin. [48188/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (12 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 462. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question 1049 of 5 November 2013, the reason a seriously ill infant had to wait for a private ambulance to arrive from Cork to get a transfer to the Bons Secours Hospital, Cork form Kerry General Hospital on 17 September 2013 when there were public ambulances available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48100/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Threat (7 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: 185. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the confirmation of ash dieback disease in a hedgerow in Ballinamore, County Leitrim; if he established where the disease originated; the quantity of firewood that has been lost through the culling of ash trees; if restoration works will be carried out to the stock proof fencing damaged by the removal of the trees and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: I would like to find out why the National Dairy Council refused to allow its logo be used on the witnesses' product given that it was farmed in the Republic of Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: If Strathroy Dairy Limited had a plant in the South and sourced its milk on both sides of the Border, it could buy most of its milk in the North and sell it in the South under the NDC brand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: Not all of the milk. If a portion was from the North and a portion was from the South.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. It is annoying and embarrassing that it is possible to buy milk in this part of our island that has been processed in the other part of the island without the same legal entitlements from the NDC. It is effectively cementing partition for want of a better word and is an indictment. Mr. Cunningham said his company provided 250 jobs. How many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)

Martin Ferris: The Strathroy processing plant is in Omagh and five other counties were mentioned in the presentation. Mr. Cunningham mentioned that he bought heifers or cows in the South, brought them back, milked them there, brought them back down to the South and yet the company is being discriminated against. Mr. Cunningham mentioned that it is anti-competitive and contravenes EU legislation. Whereas...