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Written Answers — Disadvantaged Areas Scheme: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme (21 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: Question 538: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of farmers who applied for compensatory area based payments to his Department in 2007 and 2008; the number of farmers in these years who applied for payment on holdings in excess of 34 hectares; the anticipated savings by his Department for 2009 arising from the introduction of a maximum hectarage limit of 34...

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Areas Scheme: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme (21 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: Question 540: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the level of reduction in disadvantaged area payments arising from the Budget 2009 announcement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35784/08]

Written Answers — Fallen Animal Collection Scheme: Fallen Animal Collection Scheme (21 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: Question 539: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the proportion of costs for the fallen animal scheme apportioned to all sectors involved in the scheme in 2007 and 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35783/08]

Written Answers — Suckler Cow Quota: Suckler Cow Quota (21 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: Question 541: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the level of payment envisaged per suckler cow under the suckler cow welfare scheme arising from budget 2009 announcements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35785/08]

Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (21 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: Question 542: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his Department will honour all applicants under the farm retirement scheme and installation aid scheme which were received in his Department before budget 2009 day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35786/08]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (21 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: Question 598: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will confirm that his Department has received the site report and the developed sketch design for the new building at a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and the status of this development. [35681/08]

Medical Cards: Motion (21 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: They are hiding tonight.

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: What we have here are the rules of engagement and the entrance strategy. I ask the Minister to look forward and elaborate on the exit strategy from this arrangement for the State and the taxpayer. There is a sunset clause concerning 2010 but I envisage unintended consequences here because of the public interest that will be served by the appointment of observers to bank boards and the...

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: Can I have an answer to that question?

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: The exit strategy.

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: I am talking about the exit strategy for the scheme.

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: It is about accountability.

Planning Issues. (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for the opportunity to raise this matter and to express my disappointment that I do not have the Minister or a Minister of State from the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to take the issue — no reflection on the Minister of State, Deputy Barry Andrews. I would appreciate it if the issue was brought to the attention of the relevant Ministers...

Planning Issues. (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: Will the Minister of State take up the specific case?

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: I thank my colleagues for their support for the motion. I thank all the Deputies who contributed. In particular, I thank the Labour Party and Sinn Féin for their support for the motion. I am particularly disappointed at the level of Government backbench interest in the motion. Apart from coming in delivering prepared scripts and disappearing, there does not appear to be any grasp of the...

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: ——what is the future for those 3,000 farmers who cannot meet their legal requirements under the nitrates directive?

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: They will go out of business because they will not be able to afford to 100% fund it themselves, or else they will operate outside the law with all of the consequent detrimental impact on the environment which none of us in this House wants to see happening. Whether it is 3,000 or 12,000, or as I suggest somewhere in between, those farmers will be put out of business. That is the legacy that...

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: At least Deputy Behan concluded his remarks by stating that he did not know much about farming, and that probably explained much of it. A deal of what I heard from others, but particularly from Deputy Treacy, showed a clear failure to grasp what is at stake in terms of this motion. All of the points have been made quite clearly. The Government has form on this one, as somebody referred to...

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: We will take no lectures or lessons from Deputy Treacy about the merits of Fianna Fáil and, as Deputy Coonan articulated, the closure of the sugar industry by a series of Fianna Fáil agriculture Ministers. I am disappointed, for example, that the two Independent Deputies who represent rural constituencies have not seen fit to attend at all, namely Deputy Healy-Rae and Deputy Lowry, the...

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: This is an opportunity for the Government to redeem itself in the eyes of farmers and the wider community whose jobs in construction depend on it. I recommend the motion to the House.