Results 1,721-1,740 of 18,593 for speaker:Michael Creed
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: We have spent less than half of what is available to local authorities in this area.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: If they had acted under the service level agreement and taken the appropriate actions they would have got the refund.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: I appreciate-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: Several thousand per horse?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: Let there be no confusion. The first and absolute responsibility is on the owner of the horse.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: Local authorities are drawing down these funds. However there is more funding which is not spent. I accept there may be horses that are in good ownership and well looked after but are not compliant with the law as regards chipping and passports. That is a problem. It makes traceability more difficult. The Department is aware of this. In the first instance, responsibility rests with the...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: I can send the committee a note on the scheme and how it operates.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: Regarding the organic sector, I note that €56 million was provided for the organic scheme over the lifetime of the rural development programme, RDP. Members should bear in mind that under what is known as the N+3 rule, the RDP does not run for a fixed five-year period. Sometime a contract starts in the middle of one stream and rolls over into the next one. If anything we are...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: It was because the expert group felt that the market was looking for more product in the horticulture, dairy and cereal areas.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: Originally, we opened it to everybody. Everybody who wanted to came in, and they are still in the scheme and getting a payment. We subsequently reopened it, on the advice of the expert group, to take in applications where they felt there was a market demand for the product. That was in cereal, dairy and horticulture.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: They felt that is where the demand in the marketplace was located.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: Yes. Applicants who came in under the beef sector would not have been included. That is where the high number of applications that were refused came from. I would imagine that will be one of the areas that will grow more in the next Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, but we are growing from a low base. Deputy Stanley asked about renewable energy. I would make two comments in reply....
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: On the point raised by Deputy Cahill about forestry, we are facing a particular difficulty. As a consequence of court rulings, both domestic and European, we have to effectively rebuild our licensing system. We have established an appeal system as well. I hope that the new licences that have been issued, and they are relatively recent in the context of the rebuilt licensing system that we...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: The problem is that along the supply chain, from afforestation to felling, tilling and forestry roads, we have faced a situation where our previous licensing regime was found to be deficient in some respects in terms of court challenges. We have had to take account of the court rulings, both here and at the European Court of Justice, ECJ, and rebuild our licensing process as it relates to...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: I cannot give the Deputy an exact date but it was relatively recently.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: My understanding is that some of those licence appeals should be heard imminently.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: No, but we are aware of concerns. In terms of the pipeline of activity that various actors along the chain are involved in, whether it is planting, felling or building roads, all of them are seeing the consequences of work they had envisaged would be coming on-stream now being the subject of possible delays and their existing contractual commitments coming to an end. We are aware of the...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: Yes. Under the TAMS regulations, a herd number is required to be eligible for TAMS grant aid. The greater or more onerous obligations to which the Deputy alluded and which relate, for example, to the low-emission, slurry-spreading equipment scheme could be considered in the context of a new rural development programme. There is no eligibility under the current scheme unless a person has a...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: Regarding the point made by Deputy Stanley on Brexit funding, that relates exclusively to east-west arrangements in the context of Rosslare, Dublin Port and Dublin Airport. There is some minor provision in terms of the fishing ports in Killybegs and Castletownbere.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019) Michael Creed: There has not been and there will not be.