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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (6 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will be paid their 2012 disadvantaged area payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54939/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme (6 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications for a derogation under the disadvantaged areas scheme that have been examined to date; the number in which the derogation was granted and the number refused; the number of those who were refused a derogation that appealed this decision; the number subsequently granted a derogation and the number refused; if...

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I want to deal first with the issue of the unregistered VAT. I will be told that this is a small cut but it is €18 million out of the pockets of small farmers.

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, except the very large-----

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The very big farmers who are registered for VAT do not come under this and if Deputy Hayes listened to what-----

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It was the Taoiseach-----

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It was the Taoiseach who made that point. It is extraordinary that this cut is being imposed in a year of unprecedented bad weather. One might say it is not a big cut but when it is added to the other cuts, and particularly to the cut in the farm assist scheme, one begins to see the cumulative effect of the changes in this budget.

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will explain the amount being lost in the farm assist scheme. For example, if a single person or a couple with no children had income from the farm of €100 they will have lost €30 under the previous two budgets and they now find that 100% of the income from the farm has been taken off them. For a married couple with four children who are getting €10,000 a year from the...

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Deputy Hayes should not forget that I set up the rural social scheme and eliminated that problem.

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If the Minister expanded the rural social scheme it would resolve a lot of this problem too.

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In terms of understanding and working on these issues, when the €80 million is added to this further cut and to other cuts the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine has announced this evening, one can understand the impact on farm families. It is interesting that although the Minister made great play about some tax breaks he was giving to larger farmers, when one looked at the...

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: You do not have to buy a big new car.

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One has much more discretion about that than a tax on one's house. When we talk about the cross-Border aspect, therefore, we must not forget that if one pays the VRT on this side of the Border, at least one can buy a big second-hand car or a smaller car if one does not need a big car. However, if one lives on the other side of the Border under Sinn Féin one will be paying between...

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is a fact.

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I want to make a final point. When we introduced the change in the rates of taxation for energy-efficient cars it was not foreseen that the industry would change so rapidly and that there would be so much loss of revenue. I accept, therefore, that something must be done to adjust that, but I ask the Tánaiste to examine the issue of older cars because we now have a situation in which...

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: -----particularly on bigger new cars and bigger older cars because, for those who have a 1.6-litre or a 1.9-litre car, €690 per year is a considerable burden. Many of those people cannot afford to buy the new energy-efficient cars. That is something the Government should seriously consider.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move amendment No. 41: In page 23, subsection (2), lines 12 and 13, to delete all words from and including “If” in line 12 down to and including “regulations” in line 13 and substitute the following:“If an authorised officer acting on the advice of a veterinary practitioner or a person specified in animal health and welfare regulations acting on the advice...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome the amendments, which obviate the necessity for amendment No. 41. I thank the Minister for taking on board our suggestions and reverting with amendments to deal with this issue.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will withdraw the amendment but reserve the right to re-enter it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move amendment No. 29: In page 17, subsection (1)(e), line 10, after “bull” to insert “, save for normal, necessary farm practices”.