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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (16 Jan 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to reduce the payment on the first 10 hectares of land under the disadvantaged areas scheme to farmers in areas classified as mountain that do not have sheep; the amount of any proposed reduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1092/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Foodstuffs (16 Jan 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the regulations prohibiting a farmer from added molasses to rolled barley in order to reduce the dust; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1093/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calafoirt agus Céanna (16 Jan 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine an bhfuil sé i gceist aige deontas de €150,000 a chur ar fáil do Chomhairle Contae na Gaillimhe mar atá iarrtha acu le hobair riachtanach a dhéanamh ar Ché Inis Oírr faoin gClár do Chalafoirt Iascaigh agus Bunstruchtúr Cósta; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (16 Jan 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when applications will be accepted for the fund of €1.75m for capital projects, including youth cafés and for play and recreational initiatives in 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1103/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Social Workers Register (16 Jan 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health the role of the new registration authority for social workers, the Health and Social Care Professionals Council; the details of the persons charged with responsibility for setting the registration fee for social workers and on deciding the expenditure plan of this body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1101/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Social Workers Register (16 Jan 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health the role of the new Health and Social Care Professionals Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1102/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (16 Jan 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure adequate mental health services in south Mayo where services can no longer take any more referrals from general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1465/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Project Contracts (16 Jan 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of all major roads projects that received EU funding in 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1099/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Road Network (16 Jan 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the standards that are laid down for the upgrade and re-alignment of regional roads including width, camber, sight distances and surface; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1100/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Burren Farming for Conservation Programme: Discussion (15 Jan 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If there was land abandonment in the Burren - in other words, if farming became impossible with likely cutbacks in REPS and so on - what would it do to the ecology? Dr. Parr keeps stressing that this is a farmed landscape and that none of it is wild. I accept that there is not any wild landscape there and that is true of most landscapes in Ireland. However, what would land abandonment do,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Burren Farming for Conservation Programme: Discussion (15 Jan 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This has been instructive, and maybe gives us the bones of a totally different approach to this environmental issue. Has the BFCP been able to get environmental groups, such as An Taisce, Friends of the Irish Environment and all the groups which often have complained to Europe in the past, to buy in to this approach and deal with the BFCP rather than with the Commission and having it come...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Burren Farming for Conservation Programme: Discussion (15 Jan 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What Dr. Dunford has outlined is very interesting. First, if I understand him correctly, the first lesson from the presentation is that all of this so-called wild landscape is farmed landscape, right to the top of the hills. Second, the perception, or the reality, is that it was damaged. Dr. Dunford might clarify what caused the damage. In other words, the perception seems to be that in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Rebate Scheme (20 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Finance in view of his statement that under EU law a fuel rebate system may not be restricted to Irish licensed hauliers but would have to be extended to all vehicles intended exclusively for the carriage of goods by road with a maximum permissible gross laden weight of no less than 7.5 tonnes, as well as the carriage of passengers by a category M2 vehicle or category...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Rebate Scheme (20 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Finance if permission has or will have to be sought from the EU for the essential users rebate for road haulage operators; the reason that was given for excluding vehicle for the carriage of passengers; if it is now intended to include M2 and M3 category passenger vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57741/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Clár Tógála Scoileanna (20 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le cóiríocht bhuan a chur ar fáil do Ghaelscoil de hÍde ar an Órán Mór, Co. na Gaillimhe, cad é údar na moille leis an togra seo le bliain anuas; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [57708/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Clár Tógála Scoileanna (20 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cé mhéad scoil a bhfuil céim 2B den phróiseas tógála críochnaithe acu, idir scoileanna céad leibhéil agus dara leibhéal, agus nach bhfuil san áireamh i bplean tógála cúig bliana na Roinne, cad iad ainmneacha agus cad í uimhir rolla gach scoile acu; agus an ndéanfaidh...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Clár Tógála Scoileanna (20 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cé mhéad scoil atá ar chéim 2B den phróiseas tógála, idir scoileanna céad leibhéil agus dara leibhéal, agus nach bhfuil san áireamh i bplean tógála na Roinne, cad iad ainmneacha agus cad í uimhir rolla gach scoile acu; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Clár Tógála Scoileanna (20 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad é an staid reatha maidir leis an iarratas ó Scoil Shailearna ar airgead le síneadh a chur leis an scoil; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [57712/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Procurement Service (20 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has any concerns regarding the effect on local small indigenous businesses as a result of circulars issuing from his Department in relation to the purchase of consumables such as stationary which state that from April 2013 it will be mandatory to purchase these from one named supplier thus depriving local businesses of a very important source...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (20 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new payment scale for new primary school teachers agreed with the social partners of €30,702 will come into effect; the reason for the delay in implementing this arrangement; whether arrears are now owing to teachers who will benefit from this pay scale and if so when will these arrears be paid; and if he will make a statement on...