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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Mr. Comer is missing the point. That €600 to which I referred would come from the elite farmers. All of the farmers who have the high borrowing, except the 2% elite, would get extra money. It would pay a fair amount of interest in a year. If one puts a cap on the payment to the top 2% and redistribute that money in some ways to the struggling 98% of farmers who would benefit from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I would be open to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are beginning to see some coherence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No. I have looked at the figures. I asked the Department how far €50,000 would go on a payment of €500 per hectare. It would give a €50 million saving and gives €40 million saving in the other aspect. I have asked further questions to elicit more information but basically if one wanted one could opt for a Cioloş mark 11 or a Minister's mark 11. I do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When they apply for their single payment, do they not have to put down all the hectares?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They could be ten years-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can I clarify a point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I want to clarify because there seems to be a major misunderstanding of what I said. The allegation seems to be made in farming organisations that marginal farmers on marginal land are the armchair farmers, the guys who make a killing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Reference was made to farmers farming 50 sheep over 1,000 acres. The only farmers I know forced to chase 1,000 acres for 50 sheep have been forcefully destocked by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. They are not allowed to have 200 or 400 sheep and there is as much chasing in 50 ewes across the mountain in a commonage of 1,000 acres as there is in 400 ewes. One must still...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We have that, we already got that this year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Why not just give up farming completely? What will happen? The danger is that farmers will give up farming because they are not allowed to have stock on the hills.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They will give up the payment and farming. That is a challenge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It would, if one had to chase a 1,000 acres for 20 or 30 sheep. That is what people know about the hills.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have a straight question. Are the witnesses opposed, in principle, to any cap in the amount of payment that any individual can get? If they are, that is fine, but if they are not, perhaps they could indicate a suitable cap? There have been suggestions from Commissioner Cioloş and the European Parliament, which basically stipulates that there can be a payment of between €200...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There are 120,000 registered herd owners. It is interesting that 90% of these get a payment of less than €25,000, and there must be many dairy farmers in the group. Considering the amount paid per hectare, the majority seem to be under the famous €274. If we cap the really big operators, who do not need the single payment if they are making any money from farming, we would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The objective is to defend them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is funnily enough a low land issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will deal with the topics in reverse order, I agree with the concerns of the ICMSA on conveyancing. I tabled a parliamentary question to the Minister but I did not get much joy. I believe this issue should be discussed. At this time of the year everybody comes in with the shopping list. At this stage it is normally way too late but I suggest the committee should look at the issue of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Relief (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Finance the extra cost to the Exchequer in income forgone of granting 30% and 35% mortgage interest relief TRS to all householders who purchased house between 1 January 2000 and 1January 2012 respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49424/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Centres (13 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform cé mhéad airgead a caitheadh ar Ionad an Bhlascaoid Mhóir in 2011 agus in 2012 go dáta; cén costas a bhain le cúrsaí foirne ann; céard air a caitheadh an chuid eile den airgead; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [49442/12]