Written answers

Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

 
  • Fish Farming
    480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on the application for a fish farm licence by Bord Iascaigh Mhara for a fish farm in Galway Bay; and if...
  • Forestry Sector
    481. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the issue of allegations of weight-to-volume conversion fraud at Coillte; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Beef Industry Issues
    482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the price of beef, which in some instances has dropped to as low as €3.20 a kilo at the factory gate; his views...
  • Farm Inspections
    483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he will take to ensure fairness and transparency in the on-farm inspection regime; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Agriculture Schemes Payments
    484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo can expect to have their farm payments application processed; and if he will make a...
  • Grassland Sheep Scheme Payments
    485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo may expect to receive their sheep headage scheme payment; and if he will make a...
  • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
    486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo may expect to have their disadvantaged area payment for 2013 processed; the reasons...
  • Single Payment Scheme Payments
    487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) in County Galway was notified of an over-claim assessed against them; if details of such an...
  • Equine Identification Scheme
    488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 480 of 17 December 2013, under what statutory authority are equine breeders being asked to pay...
  • Credit Availability
    489. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the credit options or State supports available to a farmer wishing to invest but unable to access funding through the banks. [6316/14]
  • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
    490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when arrears will be paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Town Trusts
    491. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has reconciled the financial situation between the Castlerea Town Trust and the other non-Department trust in the town of...
  • Food Industry Development
    492. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way he foresees smart technology improving the efficiency of the agrifood sector while protecting the sustainability of the...
  • Young Farmers Scheme
    493. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify the ceiling for off-farm income to an applicant for young farmers entitlements who is under 40 years of age and...
  • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
    494. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there is a continuing delay in processing the 2012 disadvantaged areas scheme application in respect of persons (details...
  • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
    495. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the penalties imposed on farmers as a result of parcels of land being excluded from single farm payments for...
  • Departmental Contracts Data
    496. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will name each company awarded a contract for the provision of professional services by his Department and agencies under his...
  • Live Exports
    497. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions he has taken to open up and secure the potential of the live export market for Irish cattle to the UK; if, together with...
  • Beef Industry Issues
    498. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions he has taken to help safeguard livestock farmers against a collapse in bull beef prices by 30 cent to 50 cent per...
  • Single Payment Scheme Payments
    500. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will negotiate with the EU Commission on behalf of farmers to ensure that thousands of Irish farmers are not unfairly burdened...
  • Beef Imports
    501. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he ask the EU Commission if, during the past five years, it has undertaken laboratory tests on Brazilian beef and US beef imports...
  • Fishery Harbour Centres
    502. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the capital projects he intends to progress in 2014 at fishery harbour centres; the amounts allocated to the projects; and if he will...
  • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility
    503. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a payment under the disadvantaged areas scheme will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Laois in respect of 2013;...
  • Felling Licences Applications
    504. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average waiting times for applicants for felling licences; his plans to reduce this time; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Forestry Grants
    505. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will increase the rate of forestry road grant aid to €45 and to 25 m per hectare; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
    506. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount spent on advertising by his Department and each agency under his aegis in 2013; if he will provide a breakdown of...
  • Departmental Social Media Policy
    507. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department currently engages in real-time reporting of online conversations on issues relating to his Department; and if he...
  • Animal Disease Controls
    508. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is engaged in the practice of culling badgers; his future plans for control of the badger population; and if he...
  • Aquaculture Development
    509. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will detail the damage to aquaculture operations during the recent stormy weather; the number of fish which escaped as reported...
  • Aquaculture Licences Application Numbers
    510. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of the current and any outstanding applications for temporary aquaculture licences, together with their...
  • Aquaculture Licences
    511. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of all unauthorised aquaculture operations of which he is aware; the method of inspections on which he...
  • Aquaculture Development
    512. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 660 and 661 of 15 January 2014 if he is satisfied that his Department is fully compliant with...
  • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
    514. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal against penalties on a single farm payment for 2013 in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
  • Animal Welfare Expenditure
    515. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total money allocated to each local authority, in tabular form, for the control of stray horses, in the past three years. [6773/14]
  • Fish Farming
    516. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way it is proposed to treat any outbreak of amoebic gill disease at the fish farm project proposed by Bord Iascaigh Mhara in...
  • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
    517. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) under REP scheme 4; the reason there appears to be disagreement between the...
  • Official Engagements
    518. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of all official engagements by him or the Ministers of State in his Department that have taken place in...
  • Commonage Division
    519. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Property Registration Authority has identified mapping issues within his...
  • Beef Genomics Scheme
    520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the precise costs involved for individual farmers in terms of genotype testing for suckler farmers who wish to partake in the beef...
  • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
    521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposals, if any, he has to reverse his decision to incorporate the sheep grassland scheme payments into the single farm payment...
  • Animal Welfare
    523. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which animal welfare regulations continue to apply to non-thoroughbred sporting and non-sporting horses; the extent to...
  • Beef Industry Issues
    525. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he and his Department continue to monitor variations in the prices paid to beef farmers here compared with those...
  • Food Labelling
    528. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding the adequacy of food traceability with particular reference to the authenticity of...
  • Exports Growth
    529. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which new markets have become available for Irish dairy, beef and lamb; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Beef Exports
    530. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which the beef suckler herd remains adequate to meet the demands of future markets; if any particular needs have arisen...
  • Fishing Industry Development
    531. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which his Department continues to monitor the needs of the fishing industry with particular reference to traditional...
  • Common Fisheries Policy Reform
    534. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the degree to which conservation measures already adopted in the context of the Common Fisheries Policy or otherwise continue to...
  • Food and Agriculture Organisation
    535. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he and his EU colleagues expect the EU food-producing sectors to contribute to world food production in the...
  • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
    536. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers due rural environment protection scheme 4 and agri-environment options scheme 3 payments who have been paid to...
  • Commonage Division
    538. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will set up a commonage working group; if he will appoint an independent chairman to this group; and if he will make a...
  • Departmental Schemes
    539. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers who applied for and were not accepted on the agri-environment options scheme in 2013 will be a priority group for...
  • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
    540. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of land deemed ineligible for single farm payments in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6882/14]
  • Single Payment Scheme Administration
    541. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the monetary amount of penalties imposed each year on farmers since the single farm payment was introduced; and if he will make a...
  • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Application Numbers
    542. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applicants under the disadvantaged areas scheme 2013; the number paid to date; the number remaining to be paid, broken...
  • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme Application Numbers
    543. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of applicants who have applied under each measure of the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme to date; and if...
  • Fisheries Offences
    544. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the interpretation of bye law 533 of the 1966 Fisheries Act as it relates to snorkelling for shellfish when snorkelling is permitted;...

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