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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (2 Oct 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken to ensure that farmers who have enquiries regarding the single farm payment will receive a prompt reply; if adequate staffing resources have been provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41241/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (2 Oct 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of letters issued to farmers in relation to stocking density issues under the disadvantaged areas scheme; the number of applications for derogation received to date; the number granted; the number queried; the number refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41578/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (2 Oct 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated savings calculated by his Department for estimates purposes from the changes in the disadvantaged area scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41579/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (2 Oct 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will details of any regulations or orders or policy papers issued or signed by him in 2012 in relation to the allocation of herring quota; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41582/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (2 Oct 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding being provided to Dublin City Council for youth work compared to 2011; the reason for any change in the funding in view of the important work being done in this field; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41710/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Applications (2 Oct 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue on an application for funding made by an organisation (details supplied) in view of the vital work they are doing in assisting persons with financial difficulties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41711/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (26 Sep 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has had discussions with groups representing childcare providers regarding the impact that Minister Burton’s proposed sick pay proposals would have on the provision of childcare services and the additional costs such a measure could impose on these services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40692/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (26 Sep 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has had discussions with groups representing childcare providers regarding the impact that Minister Burton’s proposed sick pay proposals would have on the provision of childcare services and the additional costs such a measure could impose on these services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40692/12]

Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Sep 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Has Coillte been consulted on this issue? What is its advice about the desirability of the Government policy in this regard? The Minister says the crop will strategically stay in ownership, but it will not. The most important thing in the forest is the crop which will not strategically stay in ownership. The Minister will be aware that, remarkably, our major mills are still at full...

Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Sep 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What is the amount of money involved?

Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This Government takes the money off the poorest on the most marginal land. The Minister's policy is to hit the guys on the hill and marginal land. He does not care about them because they just have poor land and in his numbers they do not stack up in production.

Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: From all the Minister's actions.

Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Of the 4,000 decisions made, how many were in favour and how many were against derogation? If farmers appeal to the independent appeals committee, is it likely they will have to wait until 2013 for payment before the committee has finished its hearings?

Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine wrote to 10,000 farmers asking them to state whether they were in the agri-environment options scheme, AEOS, or the rural environmental protection scheme, REPs. The Department which actually runs these schemes could not match its own files as to which farmers were in AEOS and REPs.

Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is holding up the hill farmers and those on marginal lands. He has created a huge bureaucracy which has little purpose and that will save him for very little moneys. The Department then asked farmers if their lands were designated as a special area of conservation, SAC, special protection area, SPA, or a natural heritage area, NHA. However, the Department has maps of every...

Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a fault.

Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is it – the farmers can wait.

Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Mair, a chapaill, agus gheobhaidh tú féar. Ar chuala tú é sin riamh?

Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yet the Department knows that already.

Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not creating an issue because I am the one they come to when they have difficulties with the forms, particularly the older farmers. What they cannot understand is why the Department had to write to them when it already had the information. The Department knows from its area aid maps, which are satellite pictures and not maps in the conventional sense, exactly to the inch the eligible...