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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, absolutely.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes. In amendment No. 69 I give the wrong reference. It is section 37(3) which states: "A person with whom the Minister enters into a service agreement under section 74 may for the purposes of enforcing this Act, appoint in writing, with the consent of the Minister, such persons as he or she considers appropriate to be authorised officers for the purpose of all or any of the functions that...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How can you respond to what you do not know?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In terms of procedure, it has always been the case that when I table an amendment-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister was responding to points we had not made. He cannot presume we will make a point-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: You seem to-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If we are not going to follow the normal procedure, I am leaving because there is no point in us being here. If the normal rights given to members of the Opposition who table amendments to a Bill to outline their reasons for tabling them are not adhered to, I am not taking part in the proceedings because it is not the correct procedure to follow.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Chairman has accepted the error.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is unusual to hear the response before we have even made our case. What happens outside this House is of no relevance at committee. A case is being put forward by the movers of the amendments and what the Minister thinks we think is of no relevance. The way Committee Stage always worked when I was a Minister was that the movers of an amendment made a case for that amendment, explained...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Universal Health Insurance (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health when the White Paper on Financing Universal Health Insurance will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48933/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Positive Ageing Strategy (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the Positive Ageing Strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48948/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Relief (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who are in receipt of mortgage tax relief at present for loans taken out in or after 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49180/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Relief (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Finance the total cost of mortgage tax relief in 2012 for loans taken out in or after 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49181/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Relief (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost in tax forgone of increasing mortgage interest relief for all loans taken out in or after 2004 by 1%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49183/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Relief (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Finance the years that mortgage tax relief will cease for persons who took out loans in each of the years 2004, 2005,2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49182/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Expenditure (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers, broken down by county, that are receiving less than €10,000, between €10,001 and €25,000, between €25,001 and €40,000, between €40,001 and €50,000 and more then €50,00 respectively in single payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49224/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Expenditure (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers, broken down by county, that have entitlements for single payment per hectare of less than €200 per hectare, between €201 per hectare and €300 per hectare, between €301 per hectare and €400 per hectare, between €401 per hectare and €500 per hectare and more than...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Disease Controls (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of compensation paid in 2011 in respect of all animals that were slaughtered as part of the disease eradication programme broken down by disease type; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49321/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide finance for the setting up of a Huntington's disease clinic here that would include the appointment of a neurologist, a HD specialist nurse, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, speech and language therapist, social worker and neurophysiologist in view of the devastating effect of this illness and the fact that it is an inherited...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Fisheries Policy: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will be brief. Can the Secretary General confirm that at the beginning of the negotiations Ireland made a strong protest that the whole regime is totally inequitable as we own 18% of the fish of Europe and yet are allocated a quota of 4%? I presume he can confirm that the Department made a strong stand that we are starting from the wrong place and that he will continue to make that stand...