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Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá dhá cheist agam don Taoiseach. Maidir leis an Bille a bhaineann le foraoiseacha, cén uair a fhoilseofar é agus cén uair a thiocfaidh sé os comhair an Tí? An mbeidh moltaí ann maidir le díol na gcrann atá ag Coillte Teoranta? Mar is eol don Taoiseach, tá amhras mór ar an bpobal maidir leis an moladh atá ag an Rialtas na...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Sea, Bille Uimh. 13.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: An ndéanfaidh sé plé le díol na gcoillte?Cad a dhéanfaimid feasta gan adhmad? Tá deireadh na gcoillte ar lár; Níl trácht ar Chill Chais ná a teaghlach Is is ní chluinfear a cling go brách.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domestic Humanitarian Aid (6 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 332 of 26 February 2013, when it is expected that consideration of the matter will be completed; and when his Department will be in contact again with the person. [11711/13]

Order of Business (5 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are not agreeing to this for the same reasons we articulated before.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Retail Sector: Discussion with RGDATA and Retail Ireland (5 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One perpetually hears from small operators and the more vulnerable sectors that they are fearful of making complaints. I remember an example of a service that was contracted to a Department of which I was a Minister at one stage. It was a very poor service and I was anxious to bring the service provider to court. The problem was that the people who used the service depended on it and had...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Retail Sector: Discussion with RGDATA and Retail Ireland (5 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is much talk about the Competition Authority. From my knowledge of that body, its concern is to stop businesses from forming cartels and overcharging the consumer. It is not concerned about what the supplier gets, good, bad or indifferent. In fact, the less money the supplier gets, the cheaper the product for the consumer. It does not deal with the issue we are discussing, which is...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Retail Sector: Discussion with RGDATA and Retail Ireland (5 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I was very interested in what Mr. Lynam and Mr. Gleeson had to say. However, I talk to various people involved in the supply chain, particularly those in its weakest link, small processors or producers who, by their very nature, are small and diverse. What they report is very far from the rosy picture painted today. We are often told there are a few dominant players in the market, an issue...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Retail Sector: Discussion with RGDATA and Retail Ireland (5 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Excuse me, please. With regard to the big multiples, it is my understanding that if a supplier is producing milk, that supplier provides the fridge, stacks the milk in it and all the retailer has to do is to check it out and so on. Is there a difference between the sector and the big multiples in getting the supplier or processor to do all of the hard work? Do RGDATA members have to stack...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Retail Sector: Discussion with RGDATA and Retail Ireland (5 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In hindsight, was the abolition of the groceries order and the change in regard to below-cost selling good or bad ideas?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Retail Sector: Discussion with RGDATA and Retail Ireland (5 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As a matter of information, how many of the 4,000 local shops which were mentioned are garage forecourt shops? This information would give us a sense of where the sector is surviving. I mentioned ugly fruit, and food wastage is a serious issue. The point I was trying to make is that certain stories are more media friendly than others and not that one issue is more important than another....

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Retail Sector: Discussion with RGDATA and Retail Ireland (5 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome RGDATA to today's meeting. I read and listened with interest to what the delegation had to say. There are two issues here, namely, the local supplier providing locally to a retailer and winter liquid milk producers supplying the multiples and the small shops who claim they are doing so at an ever decreasing margin. The latter claim that it will come to a point where there will...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Retail Sector: Discussion with RGDATA and Retail Ireland (5 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How much of what a RGDATA retailer stocks is determined by the wholesaler and how much is supplied by a food processor? Can an independent retailer make a deal with the wholesaler? We are concerned not just with price of foodstuffs but the conditions for sourcing products. My understanding with liquid milk is that if there is a surplus in the North, it comes to the South and southern...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (5 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if funding will be provided to Galway County Council to connect 10 houses in Ballyloughane, County Galway, to the main Galway sewerage scheme phase three; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11129/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (5 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on a derogation appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11401/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foreign Adoptions (5 Mar 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress made to date in discussions with the Russian authorities in relation to adoptions from Russia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11591/13]

Other Questions: Banks Recapitalisation (28 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the impact on Ireland's prospect for attaining ESM investment in the pillar banks of the proposals under consideration by eurozone finance ministers to limit the the amount of money the ESM can use for direct recapitalisations of banks. [10619/13]

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is always very glib and smart. For his information, I questioned the names of constituencies and if there had been a popular demand for changing the name of a constituency I would have supported it.

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I was not the Minister for the Environment, except for four weeks and there was no electoral Bill before the House at the time. I will not allow the Minister to waste time because that is all he ever does. The simple fact is that one county, one constituency has asked for its name to be changed and none of the rest has asked-----

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They did not ask me. If they had asked me I would have put down the amendment. One county asked-----