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Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)

Seymour Crawford: When the Taoiseach is at it, he should tell us about the Monaghan CT scanner.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (6 Feb 2007)

Seymour Crawford: Question 430: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan can expect to receive their single farm payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3465/07]

Written Answers — Bovine Disease Controls: Bovine Disease Controls (6 Feb 2007)

Seymour Crawford: Question 457: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the situation regarding the urgent need to have the age limit raised for BSE tests on animals from 30 to 36 months; if the EU can justify the present age limit in view of Ireland's present health status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4031/07]

Written Answers — Bovine Disease Controls: Bovine Disease Controls (6 Feb 2007)

Seymour Crawford: Question 458: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has plans to remove the 30 day restriction on the brucellosis test in view of the fact that Ireland is virtually clear of the disease; if she cannot fully remove the 30 day rule, if it could be at least extended to 3 months thus relieving additional costs and in many cases serious inconvenience for part time farmers; and if...

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Seymour Crawford: People do not get on the waiting lists.

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Seymour Crawford: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this vital motion on the health service. Once again, people living in the Cavan-Monaghan region are the victims of bed shortages in the main Dublin hospitals. In one case a patient has been waiting in Monaghan General Hospital since before Christmas to have urgent, life-saving heart surgery. If it were not for the high care unit in the hospital, which...

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Seymour Crawford: The Minister would have been welcome if she had come on time.

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Seymour Crawford: Fine Gael played a major role in getting services brought back on stream at Monaghan General Hospital. Both our party leader and Deputy Twomey were up there two days in a row trying to do something about the situation. No doubt, they will provide the extra beds, extra medical cards, the 1,500 consultants needed and an additional 1,500 convalescent beds. In their short two and a half years...

Food Safety Standards. (6 Feb 2007)

Seymour Crawford: Has any progress been made on the other section, that 30 months is still being held as the time by which animals must be tested? It is clear that at least 36 months would be realistic and would make a considerable difference to the cattle trade. This change would have implications right down the line.

Direct Payment Schemes. (6 Feb 2007)

Seymour Crawford: It will be another 32 pages.

Grant Payments. (6 Feb 2007)

Seymour Crawford: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of farmers who have not been paid their single farm payment in each of the years 2005 and 2006 due to difficulties over inheritance issues or partnerships; her views on whether young farmers should be given all the support necessary and payments made a priority; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4082/07]

Grant Payments. (6 Feb 2007)

Seymour Crawford: I thank the Minister of State profusely for giving so much information for which I did not ask.

Grant Payments. (6 Feb 2007)

Seymour Crawford: Absolutely. I have a certain anxiety for what may be a small number of farmers, although I have still not found out how many are owed moneys under the 2005 or 2006 schemes.

Grant Payments. (6 Feb 2007)

Seymour Crawford: I simply ask how many have not been paid. I have serious anxieties regarding those young people encouraged by their parents, uncles or aunts to stay in farming through being granted use of the land by deed, transfer or partnership. There seems to have been a dreadful breakdown in the operation of the scheme. In one recent case, a Teagasc adviser had never heard of the forms that had to be...

Grant Payments. (6 Feb 2007)

Seymour Crawford: It was a Teagasc adviser rather than an ordinary farmer. Farmers are not getting a sympathetic hearing regarding such issues; they are not being heard at all. They have been told to send in material, but no matter how they try to communicate with the relevant personnel, they do not receive the required answers. The important fact is that they are certainly not getting the money. For young...

Grant Payments. (6 Feb 2007)

Seymour Crawford: Absolutely. Those who went first to the Minister of State, Deputy Brendan Smith, and then came to me are still in trouble. Those are the simple facts. There are people in grave difficulty and I wrote to the Minister directly before Christmas regarding at least two individuals in dire straits. It is not funny. While it may be gratifying to emphasise that 99.9% of people have been paid, if...

Grant Payments. (6 Feb 2007)

Seymour Crawford: There are only 100 for 2005, although we do not know how many there are for 2006. If we are sincere about young farmers, we should try to give them all the help we can rather than hindering them.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (1 Feb 2007)

Seymour Crawford: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate an urgent matter of local and national importance, namely, the failure of the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to provide long-term funding for the National Domestic Violence Intervention Agency, NDVIA, and, in turn, relieve the pressure on local groups providing services for victims of domestic...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (31 Jan 2007)

Seymour Crawford: Question 913: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to ensure that persons (details supplied) in County Monaghan receive physiotherapy as a matter of urgency; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the 2006 class of physiotherapists could not get employment with the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2736/07]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (31 Jan 2007)

Seymour Crawford: Question 1306: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cavan can expect to receive their payment entitlements that are single payment and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43715/06]