Results 1-20 of 153 for agriculture scheme data speaker:Simon Coveney

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Environmental Policy (26 Sep 2023)

Simon Coveney: The Growth and Sustainability Loan Scheme is a long-term loan guarantee scheme jointly developed by my Department and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The scheme is underpinned by resources from the European Investment Bank Group and delivered by the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland. The €500 million Growth and Sustainability Loan provides longer-term lending...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (10 May 2023)

Simon Coveney: In regard to TBESS, as the Deputy knows, we have effectively changed the thresholds and changed the percentage payout to make it a much more attractive scheme. Companies will now be able to claim 50% of the increase whereas it previously would have been 40%, they qualify on a lower threshold in terms of price increases and the net maximum amount they are able to get per month has also...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (18 Jan 2023)

Simon Coveney: The recently published Department of Justice report on the Review of the Atypical Scheme for non-EEA Crew in the Irish Fishing Fleet concluded that the employment of non-EEA crew in the Irish fishing fleet who had been catered for under the Atypical Working Scheme (AWS) since 2015 should be provided for under the Employment Permit scheme. For this key recommendation to be implemented it was...

Seanad: Final Report on Impacts of Brexit of Seanad Special Select Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Simon Coveney: ...IT systems to complete and staff border control points and agree to labelling requirements for these goods. The EU is being very reasonable in this ask. It is saying the UK has to show the EU, through data sharing and labelling, that these goods are staying in Northern Ireland, to be purchased and consumed in Northern Ireland, and, therefore, the EU will not be required to apply the same...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Update on Withdrawal Agreement, Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland and Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Minister for Foreign Affairs (24 Nov 2021)

Simon Coveney: Let me start in reverse. First of all, it is welcome that the Northern Ireland planned healthcare scheme and transition cross-Border directive arrangements have been successfully in operation since 1 January. Both these measures continue to ensure that patients have access to healthcare in Northern Ireland and, in limited circumstances, the UK. While the scheme has been operating on an...

Seanad: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Simon Coveney: ...transition period and into the new reality we are facing. Regarding our own ports, there has been a lot of planning involving the Revenue Commissioners, the Department of Health, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, my Department, the Department of Transport, Dublin Port and, of course, the shipping and haulage companies. There will be a traffic plan for Dublin in place...

Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2019)

Simon Coveney: ...farmer friendly, supports family farms for the future and empowers farmers to be able to negotiate with a lot more power and weight with the factories to which they are selling. As the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine stated, we are at a critical tipping point in this dispute, and I do not say that lightly, as somebody who is passionate about the agrifood sector and about...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Interdepartmental Working Groups (26 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: ...Coordination Working Group. Focus: Trade and Promotion. Membership: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Department of Finance, Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Department of Education and Skills, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Department of the Taoiseach,...

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2017)

Simon Coveney: ...straight answer to that question is "Yes". We will ensure farmers are not shortchanged and that all the available funding under the rural development plan is fully drawn down for a whole series of schemes, including GLAS, the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, the sheep welfare scheme, the beef genomics and data programme, the organic farming scheme, the knowledge transfer...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Reports (7 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: ...Air Monitoring Facility. €1,210 2011 Building Research Establishment Ltd Retrofitting Code of Practice. Published March 2014. (1) €21,190 2011 Certification Europe Ltd. Compost Quality Assurance Scheme. Published October 2012. €139,142 2011 Dr. Eoin O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin Review of the Homeless Strategy 2008-2013. Published November 2012....

Agriculture: Statements (4 May 2016)

Simon Coveney: ...period and now has new leadership following an election. I wish Joe Healy well in the challenges he will face and I look forward to working with him, if I have the privilege of being Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in the future. As Members are aware, the agrifood sector has performed strongly in recent years despite very difficult economic circumstances, with exports...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Direct Payment Scheme (20 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: ...with my counterparts at European level, and I am fully satisfied that farm families in Ireland will continue to benefit in a fair and equitable manner from the ongoing reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. These twin imperatives informed my approach to the negotiations in 2012 and 2013, and they continue to inform the process by which the various elements of CAP reform are now being...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Contracts Data (14 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: ...Glennon - Interviewer Skills Training course provider Freedom of Information Training Course (Issued through OGP) awarded to Arcline Ltd. Retirement Planning Council – speaker at course Enovation – Computer Training Provision of Oracle Database Administration Support (Extension of existing contract) to 30/04/2016) Provision of Application Development and Deployment...

Seanad: Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Second Stage (27 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: ...Ireland Bill 2015 to the Seanad. I should say at the outset that this Bill has been the subject of a very constructive process of pre-legislative scrutiny by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The final shape of the Bill before the House today has therefore been very significantly influenced by the view of Senators, Deputies and stakeholders throughout...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (26 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: ...of €482m to be spent over six years. The aim of the new programme is to plant almost 44,000ha of new forest over the period 2015-2020. In order to achieve this target the afforestation scheme was restructured to encourage more landowners to convert land from agriculture use to forestry. First of all, the grant rate for establishing forests was increased by 5% across all...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Data (26 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: The information requested by the Deputy is outlined below: Pillar 1 2013 -2016 Direct Payment to Farmers €'000 Title of Scheme/Programme 2013 Expenditure 2014 Expenditure 2015 Expenditure 2016 Budget Single Payment Scheme 1,202,000 1,178,000 25,216 0 Basic Payment Scheme (incl Greening & Young Farmer & Protein) 0 0 1,096,491 1,200,000 Other Pillar 1 (Grassland...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Data (26 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: The information requested by the Deputy is outlined in the following table: Title of Scheme/Programme Expenditure for 2015 €000 Beef Data and Genomics Programme 29,000 Rural Environment Protection Scheme 30,173 Agri - Environment Option Scheme 79,801 Green Low-Carbon Agri-Environment Scheme 11,453 Locally Led Environmental Schemes *1,044 Land Mobility 7,143 ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Data (19 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: Under the provisions of the Basic Payment Scheme, farmers need to declare an eligible hectare for each payment entitlement held in order to benefit from payment. The hectares declared must be eligible and must have an agricultural activity carried out on them The governing EU regulations define an agricultural activity as the production, rearing or growing of agricultural products,...