• Food Agency Co-operation Council
  Question 52: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of meetings of the Food Agency Co-operation Council in 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14003/05]
• Single Farm Payment
  Question 53: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans for cross-compliance under the single farm payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13993/05]
• Farm Safety
  Question 54: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the details of planned initiatives on farm safety, in view of relative danger of the farm as a workplace; and if she will make a...
• Ministerial Visit
  Question 55: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will report on her recent visit to the US with Enterprise Ireland. [14138/05]
• Food Industry
  Question 56: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will report on her efforts to develop a competitive potato sector here. [14143/05]
• Genetically Modified Organisms
  Question 57: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the European Commission's view that governments of member states should take more responsibility for European policy on...
• EU Directives
  Question 58: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the discussions she has had with other Departments and State agencies with a view to meeting the EU biofuels directive requiring Ireland...
• Live Exports
  Question 59: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to recent concerns expressed, following the release of film by Compassion in World Farming, of the...
• Food Safety Standards
  Question 60: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the extent to which production, processing, hygiene and traceability standards applicable here have been applied to all meat imports in...
• Grant Aid
  Question 62: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will increase the level of grant aid available to farmers under the SFP scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• Animal Welfare Bodies
  Question 63: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the assistance made available to animal welfare centres throughout the country in 2004 in comparison with the previous three years. [14136/05]
• Farm Household Incomes
  Question 64: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has carried out an assessment to determine the degree to which farm families can rely on the family farm for their livelihood in...
• World Trade Negotiations
  Question 65: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her priorities for the current round of world trade talks and the summit due in Hong Kong later in 2005; and if she will make a statement...
• Animal Feedstuffs
  Question 66: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the final conclusion to the reported importation of animal feed contaminated with traces of bone; and if she will make a statement on the...
• EU Directives
  Question 67: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of EU directives for which her Department has responsibility that are yet to be implemented; the number in respect of which...
• Single Payment Scheme
  Question 68: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the assessment carried out by her Department regarding the implications of the SFP on the ERS; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Farm Retirement Scheme
  Question 69: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will index link the early retirement pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13992/05]
• Farm Safety
  Question 70: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps being taken to address the serious problems of death and injuries through farm accidents; and if she will make a statement on...
• Milk Production Partnerships
  Question 71: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to encourage dairy partnerships; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14163/05]
• Farmer Numbers
  Question 72: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of farmers who have left full-time farming since 1997; her views on the fall in the number of full-time farmers; the steps she...
• Genetically Modified Organisms
  Question 73: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the plans her Department has to evaluate the economic implications of the use of genetically modified organisms; and if she will make a...
• Energy Requirements
  Question 74: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will act to make a reality the prospect outlined at the Teagasc national tillage conference in 2003 of Ireland supplying all its...
• EU Directives
  Question 75: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding the nitrates directive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14208/05]
• Sugar Quota
  Question 76: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding the ownership of the Irish sugar quota; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14008/05]
• Live Exports
  Question 77: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will report on her efforts to protect the trade in live animals from Ireland; the number of cattle exported in the first four...
• Forestry Sector
  Question 79: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will investigate the clear felling by Coillte Teoranta of the Nenagh River gorge, a SPA, and the planting of Bolingbrook Hill...
• Food Imports
  Question 80: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Ireland imports between 10,000 and 20,000 litres of goats milk per week; and if she will...
• World Trade Negotiations
  Question 81: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her Department's position regarding the abolition of export credit refunds by the EU; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• Food Labelling
  Question 82: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the action she is taking in order that all third country beef is properly labelled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14002/05]
• Grant Payments
  Question 83: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the discussions she has had with the EU Commission to index link the single farm payment; if she intends to make the payment in two...
• Food Industry
  Question 84: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the main areas being targeted under the food institutional research programme. [14140/05]
• Departmental Agreement
  Question 85: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will make a statement on the agreement between her Department and a company (details supplied). [14021/05]
• Sheepmeat Prices
  Question 86: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps she intends to take to address the serious crisis facing many sheep farmers due to poor prices being paid for lambs by meat...
• Farmers Markets
  Question 87: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of farmers markets in operation in the country; the action or supports her Department has taken or made available, or intends...
• EU Directives
  Question 88: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the discussions she has had with the EU Commission and the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government regarding a...
• Beef Industry
  Question 90: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will report on her efforts to assist the trade in Irish beef in 2005. [14142/05]
• Animal Diseases
  Question 91: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she plans to introduce procedures that will reduce the risk of animals contracting MRSA; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Animal By-Products
  Question 92: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she is examining the possibility of making safe use of digestate from anaerobic digestion in view of the fact that Denmark and Britain...
• Animal Identification Scheme
  Question 93: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the rejection by farm organisations of a proposed system of penalty points for non-compliance with animal registration and...
• Food Labelling
  Question 94: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the measures she intends to take to improve the standard of food labelling; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14013/05]
• Disadvantaged Areas Scheme
  Question 95: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a decision will be made to upgrade the remaining area of County Monaghan from disadvantaged to severely handicapped status; the...
• Food Industry
  Question 96: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the action she is taking to improve the lot of dairy farmers who are being paid less today for milk than a decade ago; and if she will...
• EU Directives
  Question 97: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the plans she has to deal with the crisis in the intensive farming sector, that is, pigs, poultry and mushrooms, being brought about by...
• Modulated Funds
  Question 98: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans for the modulation fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13991/05]
• Genetically Modified Organisms
  Question 99: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if, arising from the recent decision of the EU to ban US imports of certain types of animal feed unless they can be certified as free of...
• EU Directives
  Question 101: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding her negotiations with the EU on the implementation of the EU nitrates directive; and if she will make a statement...
• Food Industry
  Question 102: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position with regard to discussions within the EU on proposed reforms of the EU sugar regime; and if she will make a statement on...
• Farm Retirement Scheme
  Question 103: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to implement the recommendations of the joint committee report on the ERS; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• Organic Farming
  Question 104: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will urgently introduce initiatives to encourage organic farming here and to rescue Ireland's green clean image in the food...
• Special Beef Premium
  Question 106: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the action she is taking to reduce the impact of the special beef premium overshoot on farmers; and if she will make a statement on the...
• World Trade Negotiations
  Question 107: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the discussions she has had with the EU Commission regarding the next round of the WTO; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
• Rural Environment Protection Scheme
  Question 108: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the progress of REP scheme 3 to date. [14139/05]
• Animal Diseases
  Question 109: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of cases of BSE in cattle discovered in 2004 and to date in 2005; the way in which this compares with recent years; the...
• Rural Environment Protection Scheme
  Question 110: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the measures she intends to take to address the problems experienced by farmers in the Shannon Callows, as a result of current proposals...
• Decentralisation Programme
  Question 111: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding the decentralisation programme within her Department; the number of the 60 posts that were due to be moved to...
• Farm Retirement Scheme
  Question 112: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to the concerns expressed by the farm retirement group for justice that farmers who opted for the EU...
• Food Industry
  Question 113: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the plans she has to develop the marketing potential of Bord Bia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14000/05]
• Forestry Sector
  Question 114: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food further to the recent Bacon review of the forestry sector, the proposals her Department intends to pursue to develop the sector,...
• Food Banks
  Question 115: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of food banks in operation in the country; the success of these food banks in combating food poverty; the measures her...
• Forestry Sector
  Question 116: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her position on the proposed cut by the EU of grant aid for forestry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14007/05]
• Depopulation Programme
  Question 117: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of cattle born before 1996; the estimated value of same; the projected cost of herd depopulation as a result of BSE from 2005...
• Avian Influenza
  Question 118: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she is satisfied that adequate procedures are in place to protect against the spread of avian flu to this country especially in view...
• Genetically Modified Organisms
  Question 119: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to the large number of farmers now erecting genetically modified free zone signs on their land around...
• Departmental Staff
  Question 120: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her Department will be restructured in view of the projected staff surplus of 400 in 2005 and 2006; and if she will make a statement...
• Teagasc Service Development
  Question 122: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the plans she has to develop the Teagasc service provided to farmers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14004/05]
• Carlow Sugar Plant
  Question 123: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her approval has been sought from Greencore for the proposed sale of the site of the Carlow plant which closed on 11 March 2005; if...
• Single Payment Scheme
  Question 124: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if deductions from farmers' SFP will not exceed 3% when linear and other cuts are accounted for; and if she will make a statement on the...
• Animal Feedstuffs
  Question 125: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if, since the challenge by a company (details supplied), she has revised her Department's testing procedures for animal proteins in...
• Farm Retirement Scheme
  Question 126: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her Department has concluded the review of the farm retirement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14207/05]
• Forestry Sector
  Question 127: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the report from the EU Court of Auditors regarding the way in which forestry grants were awarded here; and if she will make...
• Bovine Diseases
  Question 128: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding BSE incidence in the country to date in 2005 compared to the same period in 2002, 2003 and 2004. [14135/05]
• Grant Payments
  Question 129: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the discussions she has had with the European Commission regarding the impact of the special beef premium overshoot on farmers; and if...

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