Written answers
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Trade Relations
434. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total value of Ireland’s agricultural imports and exports with Russia in each year from 2008 to 2013; and if he will make... - Departmental Properties
435. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the maintenance of a car park (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the... - Departmental Agencies Funding
436. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount the Teagasc budget has been cut in the past four budgets. [32968/14] - Single Payment Scheme Payments
437. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of recipients of the single farm payment in County Waterford and nationally; and the average payment that is received in... - Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
438. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive their agri-environment option scheme payment; and if he will make a... - Agricultural Colleges Courses
439. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to cater for the anticipated increase in demand for places for young farmers in agricultural training colleges identified... - Animal Welfare
440. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether Wicklow County Council overstepped its remit under the Control of Horses Act on 4 December 2013 by seizing 63... - TB Eradication Scheme
441. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine not to spend €2 million killing badgers and research properly the cause of the spread of bovine TB; and if he will make a... - Departmental Staff Data
442. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of staff who retired, left or otherwise departed from their employment from 1 July 2013 to 31 December 2013, and the... - Departmental Staff Recruitment
443. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of new staff employed since 1 July 2013 up to 31 December 2013 and the expected annual costs arising therefrom; the... - Farm Inspections
444. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 300 of 15 October 2013 if he will review the answer given in view of the fact that it has now... - Turbary Rights
445. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeline in which he expects to bring to conclusion the ownership entitlement of bog plot holders in a scheme (details supplied);... - Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
446. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding land payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on... - Agriculture Schemes Appeals
447. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied). [33549/14] - Beef Industry
448. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action that will be taken to help farmers involved in the suckler herd (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the... - Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
449. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the balance of the agri-environment option scheme 3 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will... - Forestry Premium Payments
450. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when forestry payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33680/14] - Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
451. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when outstanding agri-environment option scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will... - Single Payment Scheme Applications
452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision on single farm payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a... - Single Payment Scheme Appeals
453. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all area aid moneys due have been paid to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [33715/14] - Fodder Crisis
455. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the imported fodder transport scheme will issue in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Cork;... - Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
456. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an outstanding payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; the reason for the delay in payments under... - Animal Welfare
458. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will respond to a query from a person (details supplied). [33932/14] - Single Payment Scheme Applications
459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a single farm payment application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will... - Departmental Expenditure
460. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of administrative arrangements, as opposed to contracts for service, to which his Department is a party; if he will... - Single Payment Scheme Appeals
461. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application under the single farm payment scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County... - Land Parcel Identification System
462. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details on the number of overclaim cases currently with the land parcel identification section; the average... - Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
463. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the balance of 25% payments of the agri-environment option scheme will issue to farmers; and if he will make a statement on the... - Coillte Teoranta Lands
464. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of land at Kilcooley Estate, County Tipperary that Coillte owns or has owned in the past ten years; and the details of... - Coillte Teoranta Operations
465. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the property advisers used by Coillte; the measures in place to prevent a conflict of interest in their... - Forestry Sector
466. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans regarding the expansion of the forestry industry for the development of a domestic biomass supply chain; and if he will... - Bovine Disease Controls
467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding compensation for calves diagnosed with bovine viral diarrhoea, BVD, (details supplied) in County Galway; and... - Beef Industry
468. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if in view of the serious income crises in the beef sector, he will consider bringing forward payment of the single farm payment; and... - Land Parcel Identification System
469. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the land parcel identification system; the number of appeals made; the number of cases completed as... - Employment Data
470. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the increase that has taken place in employment in agriculture, forestry and marine in the two years to the second quarter of 2014... - Rural Development Programme Funding
471. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total profiled expenditure for 2014 for the REPS and AEOS schemes broken down by scheme; the expected expenditure under these... - Agriculture Schemes Eligibility
472. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers with commonage that is classified as marginal land will be required to prove that they keep stock on this commonage in... - Rural Development Programme Funding
473. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the concerns raised in the draft Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 regarding the relative position of farmers and the... - Rural Development Programme Projects
474. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if participants in the GLAS scheme will be required to take part in the knowledge transfer programme; if they do participate in the... - Rural Development Programme Funding
475. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the schemes that could have had an advance payment to beneficiaries of up to 50% of funding as part of their provisions if assistance... - Natura 2000
476. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that there is a minimum stocking level of 0.5 LU per hectare laid down in the organic farming scheme; his plans to give a... - Agriculture Schemes Data
477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any examination was carried out using standard output data from the Central Statistics Office Census of agriculture and data from... - Rural Development Policy
480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is permissible for farmers at present to be receiving payments under both the REP scheme or the AEOS scheme and the Burren... - Rural Development Plan
481. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there is no attributed cost to the cost for farmers in completing the carbon navigator with an approved advisor as this is... - Agriculture Schemes Administration
484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure that there are sufficient planners in place to prepare GLAS plans for commonage areas; the method by which the... - Rural Development Programme Funding
485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if payments under the new GLAS scheme are based totally on standard costings or if receipts will be required to receive any payments... - Aquaculture Licence Applications
487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be taken on the application by Bord Iascaigh Mhara for a fish farming licence in Galway Bay; and if he will make... - Direct Payment Scheme Eligibility
488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of reviews of the land parcel identification system alleged over claims that were sought by farmers; the numbers decided;... - Land Parcel Identification System
490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have had retrospective penalties imposed on them to date arising out of the land parcel identification... - Agriculture Schemes Eligibility
491. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the upgrading of cattle and sheep housing will be included under the TAMS schemes 2014-2020; if these upgrades will include... - EU Regulations
493. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the threat of a fine being imposed on his Department by the EU in relation to the single farm payment still exists and the... - Agriculture Schemes Administration
494. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposed locations, dates and times of the regional meetings being organised by him in relation to commonages; and if he will... - Agriculture Schemes Payments
496. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of funding provided this year for the following payments, including EU and exchequer funding; single farm payment,... - Milk Quota
497. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the application for an extra milk quota in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a... - Beef Data Programme
498. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding payment under the beef data scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will... - Single Payment Scheme Administration
499. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on allowing the trading of entitlements for 2015 on naked hectares of land that were purchased subsequent to May of 2014;... - Green Low-carbon Agri-environment Scheme
500. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason specific payment rates are not provided for all Natura areas based on costs and restrictions imposed under the new GLAS... - Rural Development Programme Funding
501. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the list of items eligible for grant aid under TAMS will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34674/14] - Green Low-carbon Agri-environment Scheme
502. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the application process will commence for GLAS 2015; the closing date for this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the... - Commonage Division
504. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown by county of the number of commonage farmers and the number of hectares in each county that have been... - Agriculture Schemes Eligibility
505. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the criteria for the national reserve and young farmer single farm payment top up; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Agriculture Schemes Payments
506. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when REPS 4 and AEOS payments will issue in respect of 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34680/14] - Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
508. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that will be due a REPS 4 payment in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34682/14] - Agriculture Schemes Payments
509. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all REPS 4 and AEOS payments due in 2014 will be paid out before the end of 2014; if he proposes to defer payments to 2015; if so,... - Rural Development Programme Projects
510. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a farmer can be a member of two knowledge transfer groups, that is, beef and sheep groups; and if he will make a statement on the... - Animal Diseases Issues
512. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action being undertaken to protect pig farming from the growing threat of emerging disease problems such as ASF and PED; and if... - Rural Development Programme Projects
513. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the specific funding that will be provided under TAMs to modernise piggeries under the new rural development programme; and if he... - Beef Exports
514. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has put forward any specific proposals recently to the EU Trade Commissioner to protect the Irish beef sector in the event of... - Land Parcel Identification System
516. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a land parcel identification system review has been carried out on a person (details supplied) in County Galway; if so, the... - Ministerial Meetings
517. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he attended a meeting earlier this year with a group (details supplied) in regard to fish farms; if he will make available the... - EU Funding
518. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the manner whereby farmers can qualify for assistance under the scheme known as the Scottish Derogation; and if he... - Direct Payment Scheme Eligibility
519. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the options available to persons (details supplied) in County Wexford to obtain entitlements for their farm and a future for their... - Rural Development Plan
521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to provide grant aid for the pigmeat sector under TAMS II taking into account the very high costs in providing... - Departmental Staff Recruitment
522. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of new appointments made in his Department and those under his remit since March 2011 to date in 2014, with a... - Public Sector Staff Increment Payments
523. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of public sector employees under his remit who are subject to a freeze on their increment payment in 2014; and if he will... - Public Sector Staff Career Breaks
524. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of civil servants, public servants and semi-State employees in his Department on career break at the time of the...
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