Written answers
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Department of Agriculture and Food
- Import Tariffs
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the details of the proposed World Trade Organisation import tariff cuts on the main farm sectors; if her Department has... - Farm Improvement Scheme
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 331 of 13 November 2007, the number of applications and the amount applied for in... - Food Labelling
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress she is making on ensuring a more comprehensive labelling system for meat and food products imported into this... - Aquaculture Industry
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will press the European Commission for an EU strategy to support a sustainable fish and shellfish farming sector to... - Farm Improvement Scheme
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the situation regarding outstanding applications for the farm improvement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the... - Animal Feedstuffs
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food her views on the expected impending meat scarcity due to increasing feed prices; and if she will make a statement on the... - Beef Industry
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her Department has carried out analysis of the economic impact on the Irish beef industry of the decision to re-open... - Pigmeat Sector
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the measures she will introduce to alleviate the difficulty facing the pig industry, in view of the clear disparity between... - Grant Payments
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the EU Commission is seeking the publication of details of the 2007 payments... - Food Labelling
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the measures that are in place to ensure that non-organic food is not mislabelled; and if she will make a statement on the... - Price Inflation
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the steps her Department is taking to combat food price inflation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13077/08] - Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will lobby the European Commission to rescind the decision to pay REP scheme four retrospectively to participating... - Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the specific measures she will introduce in the agricultural sector to meet Ireland's national target of reducing greenhouse... - Obesity Levels
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the consultations she has had with the Department of Health and Children in relation to the recent evidence of an alarming... - Farm Waste Management
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if all applications for grant aid received and approved under the farm waste management scheme will be paid; and if she will... - Departmental Communications
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she has received communications from the Agriculture Committee of the Northern Ireland Assembly in the past year; the... - Fishing Industry
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the Government's position with regard to internal transferable quotas; her views on the re-flagging of the Johanna Maria... - Common Agricultural Policy
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the steps she will take in the context of the World Trade Organisation to ensure that the Irish and European food producing... - Animal Diseases
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if, in view of the continuing threat to human health and the economy generally from animal diseases, she will consider the... - Food Industry
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food her views on the impending food security crisis; the measures she will take to ensure the Irish consumer is not adversely... - Aquaculture Licences
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason aquaculture licences are not available to inshore mussel dredging fishermen. [13086/08] - Food Labelling
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if all food and food products on sale here are accurately labelled to reflect the country of origin and full traceability; if... - Farm Waste Management
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will reopen the farm improvement scheme to enable farmers in the middle of some developments to complete the work so... - Milk Quota
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will review her allocation of the milk quota to facilitate development farmers and thereby honour agreements to them... - Noxious Weeds
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of prosecutions and convictions in 2007 for failure to control ragworth; and if she will make a statement on the... - Planning Issues
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will include forestry under the Strategic Infrastructure Act which came into force in January 2007; and if she will... - Bovine Disease Controls
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the latest information available to her Department on the outbreak of bluetongue in Northern Ireland; the steps she is... - On-farm Investment Schemes
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the grants available to individuals hoping to acquire anaerobic digestion systems; the extent to which such grants have been... - Milk Quota
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the measures in view of the envisaged changes to the milk quota system, she will bring forward to encourage new entrants to... - Grant Payments
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if all applications for grant aid received and approved under the farm improvement scheme will be paid; and if she will make... - Alternative Farm Enterprises
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will make a statement on recent reports regarding the threat which energy crops pose to world food production and the... - Food Labelling
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will extend the country of origin labelling of beef introduced in 2006 to cover lamb products; and if she will make a... - Grant Payments
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when she will give ministerial clearance for the processing of the 3,000 applications that were received between 21 October... - Potato Industry
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the efforts being made to promote consumption of the potato which has dropped significantly among younger consumers; and if... - Sheep Industry
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will implement the Malone report on the sheep industry in full; her timetable for the implementation of its...
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