Written answers
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Rural Development Programme
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of money spent broken down between EU funding and national funding under each heading of the current 2007-2013 rural... - Food Labelling
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure that food processors and transfers are obliged in future to report the results of tests that they conduct themselves... - Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his proposal on internal convergence is still on the table for the Common Agriculture Policy negotiations; if this proposal has been... - District Veterinary Offices
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an outline of his plans regarding the consolidation of district veterinary offices across the country; and if he will... - Single Payment Scheme Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to propose as President of the Council of Ministers of the EU that each country will have the flexibility to put a national... - Food Labelling
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he supports the proposal to introduce new legislation, in view of the food contamination cases, to tighten up traceability and country... - Harbour Authority Properties
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his timetable for the introduction of paid parking charges in Howth Harbour, Dublin 13, and if he will reconsider his decision not to meet... - Agri-Environment Options Scheme Application Numbers
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the new agri environment option scheme programme will commence; when farmers will be informed whether their applications have been... - Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the redistributive payment proposal from the French Government and a similar proposal included in the Council of Minister... - Grant Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers with stacked entitlements for single payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14654/13] - Farm Improvement Scheme
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of money allocated to the farm improvement scheme since 2007; the spend to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether farmers on poorer heavier hill and or mountain land who are producing to the best of their ability and the land... - Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to amend the legislation under which aquaculture licences are granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14730/13] - Grant Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers with stacked payments will be able to carry these forward into the new Common Agricultural Policy 2014-2020; if he is in favour... - Horse Passports
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to introduce a unitary registration system for horses; if all change of ownership will have to be registered on this system;... - Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that have not yet been paid their 2011/2012 agri environment option scheme 1 and AEOS payments and the percentage in... - Live Exports
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has had discussions with shippers, operating out of Dublin and Dún Laoghaire to ports in Wales and England, in relation to the... - Dairy Sector
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if in view of the milking cycle of farming he has asked the EU to agree to abolish dairy quotas from the 1 of January 2013 rather than the... - Aquaculture Development
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the policy directions given to Foras na Mara by him or his Department in relation to research on the development of aquaculture; and if he... - Milk Quota Purchases
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to address the current legal situation in regulations 9 and 10 of 227/2208 which allows milk quota to be sold without land... - Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current position in relation to the Common Agriculture Policy negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14644/13] - Forestry Sector
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the forest service has produced any reports in relation to its remit in overseeing Coillte; if so, if he will provide these reports; if... - Common Fisheries Policy Negotiations
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made in the negotiations on the Common Fisheries Policy to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14663/13] - Food Safety Standards Regulation
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of complaints made to his Department since March 2011 regarding possible irregularities in the horse slaughtering business; if... - Common Agricultural Policy Reform
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the discussions to date as part of Common Agricultural Policy reform to ensure price stability and a fair return to primary producers are... - Single Payment Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers not yet paid their single payment for 2012; the number paid; the percentage paid broken down on a county basis; and... - Common Agricultural Policy Reform
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that the steps taken to date in the context of Common Agricultural Policy reform are adequate to ensure the future... - Forestry Sector
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the upcoming meetings he is scheduled to attend in relation to the proposed sale of Coillte's harvesting rights; and if he will make a... - Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the co-financed Exchequer funding that will be required to fully drawdown EU funding under the rural development plan (pillar 2) in the... - Animal Breeding Regulations
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he has withdrawn, without notification or consultation with stakeholders, the 2007 Hen Harrier Management Protocol; and if he... - Food Safety Standards Regulation
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the names of the meat slaughtering and processing plants that have had their licences to operate suspended; if this is temporary or... - Food Labelling
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if unilaterally or in conjunction with his EU colleagues, it has been found possible to put in place accurate and authentic labelling to... - Fish Quotas
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce the prohibition of pair trawling for herring, sprat and bass within a 12 mile radius of our coastline in order to... - Rural Environment Protection Schemes
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers currently in the rural environment protection scheme 4 and the agri environment schemes 1 and 2 schemes; the number... - Food Labelling
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposed regulatory or legislative changes arising from the recent horse meat scandal; when it is proposed to make such changes; and... - Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that were written to in relation to their 2012 disadvantaged payments under the stocking density rule; the number... - Forestry Sector
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide assurances that the open access policy currently in operation on the Coillte Estates will remain unchanged for the... - Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the numbers of farmers who have not being paid their REP scheme 4 payments for 2012; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a... - Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Application Numbers
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who applied under the disadvantaged areas payment scheme for 2012; the number who have received their payments; the... - Commonage Division
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the revised commonage plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14661/13] - Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on any meetings he has attended in relation to the proposed sale of Coillte's harvesting rights; and if he will make a... - Agri-Environment Options Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends increasing the number of places on the agri-environment option scheme 3 scheme to cover all eligible applicants; and if he... - Job Statistics
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will detail the employment levels in the meat processing sector and the value of processed meat exports. [9062/13] - Job Retention
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of jobs under threat as a result of the recent horse meat/food safety scandal; and the steps being taken to safeguard jobs in... - Single Payment Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his position on the question of front loading of single farm payments to protect the livelihood of the 70% of farmers who receive less... - Sugar Quotas Abolition
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will be supporting as President of the Council of Ministers, the abolition of sugar quotas; the current position in relation to this... - Animal Slaughtering Numbers
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of lambs and sheep from Northern Ireland and Britain respectively that have been slaughtered in factories in this jurisdiction...
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