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- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Brendan Smith: ...differences, to put Ireland's long-term strategic and economic interests first. It should be an opportunity for us to state with a single voice that we reject the European Commission's ruling on Apple and its spurious claims that Ireland has done sweetheart anti-competitive deals with an individual company. We should be united in asserting our sovereign right to decide our own tax laws -...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 Nov 2010)
Brendan Smith: .... The scheme has made an immense contribution to the growth and development of the horticulture sector across all areas- protected crops, field vegetables, mushrooms, nursery crops, soft fruit, apples, cut foliage and beekeeping. Under the first two rounds of the scheme, a total of â¬8,254,321 was paid out to 222 producers in 2008 and 2009 which supported investment of â¬20.6M. The...
- Written Answers — Food Industry: Food Industry (26 May 2010)
Brendan Smith: ...investment contributes significantly to the growth and development of the horticulture sector across all areas including the protected crops, field vegetables, nursery crops, mushrooms, soft fruit, apples and beekeeping sectors. In addition, financial support continues to be available to those producers who participate in the Producer Organisation (PO) Scheme. This EU Scheme provides an...
- Written Answers — Horticulture Industry: Horticulture Industry (20 Apr 2010)
Brendan Smith: ...investment contributes significantly to the growth and development of the horticulture sector across all areas including the protected crops, field vegetables, nursery crops, mushrooms, soft fruit, apples and beekeeping sectors. In addition, financial support continues to be available to those producers who participate in the Producer Organisation (PO) Scheme. This EU Scheme provides an...
- Written Answers — Food Industry: Food Industry (27 Jan 2010)
Brendan Smith: .... The scheme has made an immense contribution to the growth and development of the horticulture sector across all areas- protected crops, field vegetables, nursery crops, mushrooms, soft fruit, apples and beekeeping. Under the first two rounds of the scheme a total of â¬8m was paid out to 220 producers supporting investment of â¬20m. This year I am providing a further grant package of...
- Written Answers — Horticulture Sector: Horticulture Sector (3 Nov 2009)
Brendan Smith: ...horticultural products between 1999 and 2009 where data are available. Estimate of the Number of Commercial Producers of Edible Horticultural Products (1) Year Field Vegetables (2) Potatoes(4) Apples (3) Mushrooms(5) Protected Food crops (2) Protected soft fruit. (2) Soft Fruit(outdoor) (2) 1999 377 1046* 87 145 2000 956* 504 2001 905* 2002 294 832* 46 365 2003 ...
- Written Answers — European Council Meetings: European Council Meetings (30 Oct 2008)
Brendan Smith: ...outcome of the 23rd conference of EU paying agencies held in Ljubljana in May of this year during the Slovenian presidency. Hungary and Poland raised concerns about the crisis on the market for apples for processing in certain central European Member States. Poland also presented its views on how unspent CAP funds might be used and raised issues in relation to some current difficulties...
- Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (10 Jul 2008)
Brendan Smith: ...Association based in Scariff, Co. Clare have been one of the benefactors of this funding and are very active in conserving promoting and bulking up, for sale to the public, many old varieties of apples and vegetables. This funding has also been used to conserve native species of Elm and Oak and establish collections in public arboretae and re-introduce them in multi-species plantations....