Written answers

Wednesday, 27 September 2006

  • Transport Services
    Question 1151: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will support a proposal to use rail freight for the delivery of fresh farm produce and organic farm produce from the regions...
  • Grant Payments
    Question 1152: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason for the offset of money against other payments due to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make...
  • Legislative Regulations
    Question 1154: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the legislation which governs and regulates arboriculture and horticulture; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28330/06]
  • Milk Quota
    Question 1155: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wexford has not had their purchased milk quota transferred to their herd; when same...
  • Farm Retirement Scheme
    Question 1156: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has received correspondence from the EU Petitions Committee regarding the operation of the early retirement scheme; the steps...
  • Equine Diseases
    Question 1157: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 377 of 27 June 2006 regarding equine infectious anaemia, if she will furnish a response to the...
  • EU Regulations
    Question 1158: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the rules and regulations which farmers who transport animals more than 40 miles but have less than eight hours have to comply with;...
  • Grant Payments
    Question 1159: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the grant assistance which has been made available through her Department or through any of the agencies under her Department for...
  • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
    Question 1162: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the criteria for a person to start up on their own as a REPs planner; the qualifications which are needed; the way in which a person...
  • Farm Waste Management
    Question 1163: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her proposals to review the regulations on the composting of household organic waste material; and if she proposes to alter the...
  • Installation Aid Scheme
    Question 1164: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will intervene in the application for installation aid by a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [28541/06]
  • Grant Payments
    Question 1165: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a field officer will inspect works for a slatted unit for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a...
  • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
    Question 1167: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason for the hold up in REPS payment to farmers in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28697/06]
  • Grant Payments
    Question 1168: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 234 of 29 September 2004, the grant aid which has been returned to her Department; the...
  • EU Directives
    Question 1169: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the inspection regime which will apply to the enforcement of the Nitrates Directive; the level of on-farm inspection anticipated by...
  • EU Regulations
    Question 1170: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the decision she has made on issues raised (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28744/06]
  • Grant Payments
    Question 1171: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when the headage payment will be released for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28752/06]
  • Cattle Identification Scheme
    Question 1176: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will examine ways to increase the longevity of cattle tags in order that they are more durable in view of the fact that cattle...
  • Grant Payments
    Question 1177: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding an application for entitlements under the single payment national reserve for a person (details supplied) in...
  • Afforestation Programme
    Question 1179: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will institute a review of the 1996 strategic plan for the development of the forestry sector in Ireland which reflects the...
  • Nitrates Regulations
    Question 1181: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the definition of peat soils incorporated in Schedule 1 of the Nitrates Regulations 2006 (details supplied) as soils with an...
  • Afforestation Programme
    Question 1182: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she is satisfied that the foliar analysis, upon which her Forest Service's approval of fertilisation of forestry is based, is...
  • Water Supply
    Question 1188: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will introduce a system of grant aid for farmers who must bore wells on their lands to supply water to their lands in areas...
  • Departmental Funding
    Question 1189: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has received a submission from a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if she will respond favourably to same; and if...
  • Alternative Energy Projects
    Question 1190: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 391 of 3 May 2006, if the review has taken place; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Census of Population
    Question 1191: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if figures released by the Central Statistics Office in July 2006 via the Census 2006 Preliminary Report will be used by her...
  • Waste Management
    Question 1192: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she proposes to extend the farm plastics collection pilot scheme to cover the entire country; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Alternative Energy Projects
    Question 1193: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the plans she has to introduce start-up grants for farmers entering the biofuel crops market; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Grant Payments
    Question 1194: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding an application for a person (details supplied) in County Cork in respect of the single payment national reserve...
  • Alternative Energy Projects
    Question 1195: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the plans or proposals she has to provide incentives to farmers in the Kildare and Carlow region to provide alternative crops to...
  • Grant Payments
    Question 1198: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on increasing the level of grant assistance under the farm waste management grants where steel structures will form a major...
  • Factory Closures
    Question 1199: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the progress to date on the compensation payment negotiations in respect of the sugar industry; if she will ensure that beet growers...
  • Grant Payments
    Question 1200: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the number of farmers awaiting payment under the 2005 single farm payment scheme in each county; the most common reasons...
  • Rural Development Plan
    Question 1201: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the measures included in the Rural Development Plan 2006-2013; when the plan was sent to the European Commission for approval; when...
  • Grant Payments
    Question 1202: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a national reserve top-up from the single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reasons...
  • Alternative Energy Projects
    Question 1208: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will resist attempts to dismantle the Mallow sugar factory and what remains of the Carlow sugar factory and instead investigate...
  • Cattle Movement Monitoring System
    Question 1212: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her Department will assist a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in removing an animal from their CMMS herd profile, in view...
  • Grant Payments
    Question 1213: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason the application by a person (details supplied) in County Galway for entitlements under the national reserve was not...
  • Rural Development
    Question 1214: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on whether the current concept of rural development in EU terms and as applied to EU programmes is too restrictive; and if...
  • Forestry Sector
    Question 1215: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will arrange through Coillte for the replacement of the current wooden pallisade fencing with similar steel fencing in an area...
  • Grant Payments
    Question 1216: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to the circumstances (details supplied) regarding entry to REPS3; if she will make a favourable...
  • Farm Retirement Scheme
    Question 1217: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions has called on her Department to re-examine issues relating to the Early Retirement...
  • Fur Farms
    Question 1218: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of people who are currently employed full-time and part-time on fur farms here. [30132/06]
  • Farm Waste Management
    Question 1219: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she is satisfied regarding the fact that farmers paid a collection fee at the time they purchased plastic for silage wrap and that...
  • On-Farm Checks
    Question 1220: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to the problems being created by the limited warning being given to farmers for farm inspections in...
  • Grant Payments
    Question 1221: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will confirm receipt of an application under the national reserve by a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; when a...

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