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Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: Hear, hear.

Farm Retirement Scheme. (3 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if, in the context of the suspension of the early retirement scheme and the young farmers installation aid scheme, he proposes to make concessions to would-be applicants under those schemes who have entered into legally binding and irrevocable commitments arising from their clear intention to submit valid applications under...

Farm Retirement Scheme. (3 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: I have no interest in having a dialogue of the deaf with the Minister. We must try to make progress on the issue. I would like if the Minister would agree to open the scheme immediately. I have no doubt that if the times were better financially the Minister would agree to do that, but there is a category of people in respect of both the installation aid scheme and the early retirement...

Farm Retirement Scheme. (3 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: I am disappointed with the Minister's response because I referred to a handful of applicants where there is clear evidence of a delay in probate or the Revenue stamping deeds and leases. Has the Minister received any legal advice on the vulnerability of the Department to a legal challenge following the suspension of the scheme? It would appear that the principle of legitimate expectation...

Sheep Sector. (3 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: What is the consultation about in that case?

EU Funding. (3 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: Question 64: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the way he proposes to allocate to farmers funding accruing to his Department arising from the 5% reduction in the single farm payment as approved by him in negotiations on the CAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44382/08]

EU Funding. (3 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: I understood there was an obligation on the State to match modulated funds exactly. What amount of matching State funding will the Department provide? What are the schemes he envisages financing? When will we see the application forms and the detail in respect thereof?

EU Funding. (3 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: This is not devoted to rural development per se but to the agriculture budget.

EU Funding. (3 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: All farmers will be hit by the modulation proposals but only farmers who apply to participate in the schemes envisaged by the Department will recoup the funding. I want a specific answer to my specific question on the additional State funding required to match the modulated fund.

Fisheries Protection. (3 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: How will the Minister of State allocate that?

Fisheries Protection. (3 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: I did not hear what the Minister of State had to say about the mackerel quota.

Fisheries Protection. (3 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: We did not hear how the Minister of State will distribute it.

Afforestation Programme. (3 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: Agreed.

Afforestation Programme. (3 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: We are agreeable to take the written reply.

Farm Waste Management. (3 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: Is the Minister aware that in Northern Ireland this scheme has been extended by a number of months? In October last, 30,000 of the 42,000 applicants had proceeded and notified the Department that they were commencing work. Obviously, there will be a number — let us not argue about its size — who will not proceed in any event. However, there is a sizeable number of farmers who will not...

Farm Waste Management. (3 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: No, it was not.

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (2 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: Question 145: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 25 November 2008, the industries to which work permits were granted; the nationalities of those granted permits who entered each respective industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43925/08]

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (2 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: Question 146: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of work permits issued to the meat industry in 2008; the nationalities in receipt of these permits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43926/08]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (2 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: Question 421: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork in respect of their single payment. [43924/08]

Agriculture: Motion (2 Dec 2008)

Michael Creed: On a point of order, is the Deputy obliged to address the motion before the House or to have a debate on the Limerick county development plan?