Results 18,561-18,580 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a minimum saving. We agree on that.
- Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to sell off the Coillte Teo forest crop; the progress made regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40408/12]
- Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Why does the Minister not read it out like we used to do?
- Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: When I was Minister, the official answer was my answer not the civil servants' answer. If I thought there was something in it that should not be there, then I took it out.
- Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister give us his answer? Presumably, his answer is the answer that will be in the record.
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Exactly.
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Minister is aware, no one objects to the change in the criteria as they apply to farmers from outside disadvantaged areas who are in receipt of payments under the disadvantaged areas payment scheme and vice versa. Having submitted a freedom of information request to the Department, I understand the savings achieved in that element of the scheme are tiny.
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The major saving will be achieved from the change in stocking rates. How many letters issued to farmers on stocking density and how many of them responded by applying for a derogation? When will a decision be made on the preliminary round of applications for derogations? Many farmers need the money provided under the scheme. As a result of the Minister's actions, they will have to wait an...
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Is it the case that those who will receive a cheque this week were not informed of that in writing?
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: They will receive the payment without being informed that their appeal was successful.
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: On the basis of how many letters?
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: How many letters were issued indicating to farmers that they did not meet the stocking density requirements?
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I believe it is 10,000.
- Other Questions: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: My point is that the vast majority of the people in question were not in the categories ascribed to them.
- Other Questions: Fishing Industry Development (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What is the current valuation of the total allowable catch and discards allocated to non-Irish fishing operations within our waters?
- Other Questions: Fishing Industry Development (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That is not what I asked.
- Other Questions: Fishing Industry Development (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Does that include discards?
- Other Questions: Fishing Industry Development (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It involves fishing in our waters.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I understand there are considerable delays in getting stocking loans from the banks so that by the time one gets such a loan one probably will have been forced to sell the stock. What steps are being taken to ensure the banks make decisions speedily? Second, can the Minister confirm the continuation of the beef suckler cow welfare and the sheep grassland schemes? Third, what steps has the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Severe Weather Events (25 Sep 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Does the Minister agree that for most farmers this will be an incredibly difficult year but for some farmers it is an utter disaster? Some farmers lost all their silage while others could not make it. Does the Minister not agree that some form of assistance should have been given on an emergency basis for extreme cases? The total cost of emergency assistance would be literally a margin of...