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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes. That is what would happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Was there not another issue? When rocks were being taken out of land parcels on the basis of aerial maps, I dealt with a case in which half of a 1,000-acre hill was taken out. I am not sure what that is in hectares, but it was reduced by half. When the farmers in question appealed that decision, the ground was walked again. It was decided that a great deal of grass was growing between the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It was not when REPS 1 and REPS 2 came in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It has been there for only seven years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No. They stay-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No. If a special scheme is created because of GAEC, there will be no way of getting at the money. It would be about as realistic as the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow in Connemara. The simple way to do it is through the Commission's proposal whereby one does not blame farmers for being born into bad land. The single payment gives the EU its return on the high nature value payment....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh na hoifigigh atá anseo ón NPWS agus ón Roinn Talmhaíochta, Bia agus Mara. Is dóigh liom gurb í seo ceann de na ceisteanna is tábhachtaí a tháinig faoi bhráid an choiste ó bunaíodh an coiste. Tá cur i láthair thar a bheith cuimsitheach déanta ag na finnéithe ar an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can Dr. Bleasdale tell me what is an LPIS?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know that but is it the full commonage or is it a part of a commonage?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sale of State Assets (19 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his intentions with regard to the Government stake in Aer Lingus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8561/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Service Obligation Services (19 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to deregulate the provision of public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8557/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Eligibility (19 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a farmer or fisherperson in receipt of farm assist and fish assist have to be available for employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8339/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (19 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when 2012 REP scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; the reason for the delay in issuing payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8527/13]

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They will find it difficult to have a voice at a national level with an unelected agency ensuring water supplies. I note the absence of any mention in the Bill of the 145,000 households which do not have either a group water scheme or a mains water supply. I was making huge progress to deal with that issue when I was Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. With the CLÁR...

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I listened to Deputy Joan Collins's contribution and share her concern. I do not have an objection in principle to the provision of quality services by semi-State bodies. The ESB has served the country well from its inception, particularly in the work it carried out between 1946 and 1958 to provide electricity in every village and every townland in rural Ireland. I do not object in...

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Deputy Fergus O'Dowd and his colleagues, excepting the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Simon Coveney, have a habit of bulldozing on Committee Stage and refusing to listen to reasonable amendments put forward by the Opposition.

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Fear a bhfuil Gaeilge aige. Can the Minister confirm the name by which this utility will be known? Will it be Uisce Éireann or Irish Water? Do not tell me it will be both. Obviously, if one is speaking Irish it will be Uisce Éireann, but there has been a tradition of enforcing our identity as a nation by giving the Irish name as the general name used by the public, as in the...

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Those who have come to live here adapt to the Irish names and use them, just as we use words such as "sauna", which is a Finnish word, and "boutique". Most people can adapt to given names. I seek a firm commitment from the Minister that when this legislation passes there will be one name for this company, Uisce Éireann, which is to be used by all whether they are speaking the first or...

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on this Bill. It amazes me that there will be no more Government speakers on the Bill, even though the Government has the vast majority of Teachtaí Dála in the House. One would think that this side of the House would run out of speakers much more quickly than the Government. It shows a lack of enthusiasm, if one could call it that,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (14 Feb 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health the way he plans to increase the number of general practitioners here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7497/13]