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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (25 Apr 2024)

Flood Relief Schemes

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): I confirm that 867 applications have been received with 33 in the first two tranches and it is increasing all the time. I do not have the figure for rejections. I can find that and get it to the Deputy. This is a generous scheme which supports women in farming. The eligibility criteria are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024) See 20 other results from this debate

Charlie McConalogue: I will take the Deputy’s second point first. He talks a lot of hot air. He has no policy and no proposals. When he mentions young Muireann Kavanagh and the issue of the hook and line pollock fishery, the Deputy does not understand what he is talking about in terms of the wider policy environment. I have engaged with that young fisher lady - it is great to see her passion for it -...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Richard Bruton: First, I welcome what the Minister of State has said, but so long as there is no clear picture of what a revenue stream from sound environmental farming will mean in ten or 20 years' time, this uncertainty and unease will continue. We know, for example, that raising water levels on certain lands has huge carbon dividends. We know that benchmarking and reducing emissions by sequestration or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024) See 13 other results from this debate

Peadar Tóibín: It is interesting there is such a disparity between the numbers the Minister has quoted, which are correct according to the census, and the number of people who are declaring as farmers. Fewer people are declaring as farmers because they must have another occupation when they cannot make enough money from their farms. In the census, they declare they are not farmers but are something else....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Staff (25 Apr 2024) See 9 other results from this debate

Charlie McConalogue: I certainly will take an interest in that. It is something I am very committed to because I want to see our small abattoirs being supported. I know we have seen a significant change in the landscape over the past decade or two in relation to the number of abattoirs in the country. There has been significant consolidation, but I want to ensure the services that small abattoirs need are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (25 Apr 2024)

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024)

Agriculture Schemes

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024) See 11 other results from this debate

Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): I accept people’s frustration. They have been waiting a long time, but it is important that we get this right. This is not just a decision for me to make in my Department. Rather, it requires engagement across the Government, in particular with the Department of public expenditure. ...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fodder Crisis (25 Apr 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Peter Fitzpatrick: I am extremely concerned and I am sure the Minister is too. The adverse conditions have been really bad. There have been serious concerns around livestock and tillage. The Minister knows the spring crops such as barley have not been sown yet, even in County Louth, which is normally a very dry county. I ask the Minister again if he intends to reinstate the fodder schemes. There has been...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Offices (25 Apr 2024) See 11 other results from this debate

Seán Canney: The Minister can revert to the Deputy with an answer on that because we are out of time. Has Deputy Ó Murchú something to say to the Minister before we conclude?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (25 Apr 2024)

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Supports (25 Apr 2024)

Agriculture Supports

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Apr 2024) See 8 other results from this debate

Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy. The activation support programme provides funding to local organisations and agencies to implement training and education initiatives. It is focused on the needs of social welfare recipients, and their families, who are very distant from the labour market. There is a plethora of other initiatives that help people to get back into the labour force. The Department makes...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Programmes (25 Apr 2024)

Departmental Programmes

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Apr 2024) See 13 other results from this debate

Peadar Tóibín: These are shocking figures. The Minister basically said that since she was elected, approximately 40,000 people with disabilities have applied for disability allowance, been refused, had to appeal the decision and were then successful. She is saying that, for the big chunk of those cases, the initial refusal of the application by the Department was incorrect. These are people with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (25 Apr 2024)

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)

Social Welfare Payments

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Citizens Information Services (25 Apr 2024) See 9 other results from this debate

Heather Humphreys: What I am saying is that I will not be found wanting, depending on the Labour Court outcome. We have to hear what it has to say. These people, as the Deputy knows, are set up in such a way that they are not employees of my Department. That probably emanates from voluntary boards many years ago. That is the way it is, so we have to go through the process. The Labour Court will make its...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (25 Apr 2024)

EU Directives