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Question· oralPQ 3asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 1990
3 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when the Government decided to reduce the number of CAO posts in the Teagasc structure from 28 to 25; if his attention has been drawn to the effect of this decision on the services available to the farming community; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 2asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 1990
2 Mr. Connaughton asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if, in the light of the outcome of the recent EC farm price talks, he will support the principle of a supply/management programme to protect the livelihood of thousands of Irish cereal growers; and if he accepts that many Irish grain growers will be forced out of farming this year because of present policies.
Question· oralPQ 1asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 1990
1 Mr. Connaughton asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food his views on the reduction in prices, particularly for cattle, sheep and cereals; and the cumulative effects these reductions will have on total agricultural commodity values and on actual farm incomes in 1990.
Question· oralPQ 51asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
51 Mr. Sherlock asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he intends to request Teagasc to take any special steps to assist farmers who have suffered as a result of recent severe flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 48asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
48 Mr. Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if it is intended to introduce a scheme to provide financial grants for certain farmers to encourage them to let land lie fallow; if it is desirable that there should be financial incentives for allowing land to lie fallow; if he has considered alternatives, such as providing incentives to transfer to other crops; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 36asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
36 Mr. Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if representations have been made to him concerning the position and/or behaviour of the chairperson of Teagasc; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 28asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
28 Mr. Cotter asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will give details of the formula to be used for the division of the 11 million gallons of extra milk quota; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 25asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
20 Mr. M. Higgins asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the total estimated value of Irish agricultural output in each of the years from 1980 to 1990, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 24asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
48 Mr. Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if it is intended to introduce a scheme to provide financial grants for certain farmers to encourage them to let land lie fallow; if it is desirable that there should be financial incentives for allowing land to lie fallow; if he has considered alternatives, such as providing incentives to transfer to other crops; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 23asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
19 Mr. Garland asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when the EC extensification programme will be brought into force in Ireland; and if he intends to introduce a subsidy for conversion to alternative methods of agriculture as part of this programme.
Question· oralPQ 22asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
18 Mr. Cotter asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan will qualify for a milk quota from the one millon gallons of extra quota which have been set aside for applicants whose quotas were affected by disease initially; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 21asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
17 Mr. T. O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he has made any representations to the independent national and local radio stations or to the IRTC about the quality and extent of programming aimed at the agricultural sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 20asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
16 Mr. T. O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if any grants have been paid by his Department under Council Regulation EC No. 1760/87; if so, the number of recipients; and the amount of grants paid.
Question· oralPQ 19asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
36 Mr. Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if representations have been made to him concerning the position and/or behaviour of the chairperson of Teagasc; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 18asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
15 Mr. G. O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if his attention has been drawn to the derogatory comments by the chairperson of Teagasc concerning the staff of that body (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 17asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
14 Mr. Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps, if any, he intends to take to promote the meat processing industry, especially in light of the decision not to proceed with the proposed Agra meat group development for Newbridge, County Kildare; the steps, if any, he intends to take to promote the development of branded steak products; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 16asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
13 Mr. Pattison asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he has any views on the possibility of differentiated milk price supports, to give a higher level of support to the smaller producers; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 15asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
12 Mr. Hogan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he considers it necessary to introduce new legislation regarding the sale of food; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 14asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
11 Mr. Noonan (Limerick East): asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason letters addressed to his Department by Members of the Oireachtas are frequently neither acknowledged nor answered; the reason the issuing of replies to queries seems to be the exception rather than the rule; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 13asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
23 Mr. Spring asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps he intends to take to halt the decline in Irish beef production.
Question· oralPQ 12asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
10 Mr. Spring asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps he intends to take to encourage exports of Irish beef to continental Europe.
Question· oralPQ 11asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
28 Mr. Cotter asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will give details of the formula to be used for the division of the 11 million gallons of extra milk quota; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 10asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
9 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the Government will agree to change the allocation procedure for the extra 11 million gallons milk quota to ensure that each person qualifying under the scheme will be entitled to an equal or proportionate share.
Question· oralPQ 9asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
8 Mr. Connaughton asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when he proposes to distribute the two million gallons of milk provided for new entrants to milk production; the method he proposes to adopt to select the successful 200 applicants; the criteria by which young farmers will be eligible to apply; if applicants will be debarred from the scheme if milk production is already carried out on holdings owned by parents of the applicants; and if he still proposes a lottery system to select successful applicants.
Question· oralPQ 8asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
51 Mr. Sherlock asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he intends to request Teagasc to take any special steps to assist farmers who have suffered as a result of recent severe flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 7asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
7 Mr. Connaughton asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if his attention has been drawn to the loss incurred by farmers due to recent flood and storm damage; if he has assessed the damage caused to agriculture in financial terms; and if there are any proposals forwarded to Brussels to seek EC funding for compensation purposes.
Question· oralPQ 6asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
24 Mr. M. Higgins asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if final agreement on the farm price package will be reached at the next meeting of Farm Ministers in Luxembourg; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 5asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
6 Mr. Sherlock asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will outline the Government's attitude to the EC agricultural price proposals for 1990-91; if what is proposed is an effective price freeze; if he considers this satisfactory; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 4asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 1990
5 Mr. Connaughton asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he accepts that previous round testing for TB under the disease eradication scheme over many years has left vast numbers of unidentified reactor animals on Irish farms; his views on the recent ERAD statement that there will be as much as an extra 10,000 reactors above last year's level identified in the current year; the cost of such an increase; and the way in which he proposes to fund the scheme.
Question· oralPQ 77asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
77 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will outline the progress he has made in implementing the following promises made in the 1987 Fianna Fáil election manifesto: (a) to set up a new agriculture and food council to have a continuous representative policy input (b) to convert farm debts to long-term mortgage-type finance and (c) to set up a land authority.
Question· oralPQ 63asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
63 Mr. Kavanagh asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the consideration which has been given by the Government to the possible privatisation of all or part of the Irish Sugar Company; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 60asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
60 Mr. O'Shea asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food his views on whether the sale of a proportion of the Irish Sugar Company to a person (details supplied) will give the person concerned a dominant position in the manufacture and distribution of Irish sugar; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 59asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
59 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the scientific evidence on which he bases the belief that BSE, otherwise known as mad cow disease, poses no threat to the health of humans; the reason he supported the British Government in their opposition to the EC ban on the export of cattle; the monitoring which is carried out by his Department to detect the disease in the Irish herd; when cases of the disease were reported in the Irish herd; the steps he intends to take to stop the spread of the disease to this State; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 48asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
48 Mr. Sherlock asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will outline the Government's plans for the future expansion and development of the Irish Sugar Company, especially in light of its record performance in 1989; if he will outline the Government's reaction to the suggestion made by the chairperson of the Irish Sugar Company that part of the company should be privatised; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 47asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
47 Mr. Deasy asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will give details of our representations at the current GATT negotiations on agricultural trade; and if his attention has been drawn to the concern of agricultural interests in Europe about the future of the Common Agricultural Policy, in view of the insistence of the United States at these negotiations that agricultural subsidies should be phased out within ten years.
Question· oralPQ 42asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
42 Mr. Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if his attention has been drawn to the severe hardship and substantial loss of income experienced by dry stock farmers in the west of Ireland at present; the reason the price markets for both calves and dry stock have reached such uneconomic levels; and if he will outline his proposals to rectify this situation.
Question· oralPQ 39asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
39 Mr. Deenihan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food whether the rate of reimbursement has been increased from 50 per cent to 65 per cent for headage grant payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 27asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
77 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will outline the progress he has made in implementing the following promises made in the 1987 Fianna Fáil election manifesto: (a) to set up a new agriculture and food council to have a continuous representative policy input (b) to convert farm debts to long-term mortgage-type finance and (c) to set up a land authority.
Question· oralPQ 26asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
20 Tomás Mac Giolla asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he has considered the establishment of a national land authority particularly to encourage farm mobility to trained young people; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 25asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
19 Mr. Moynihan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of herds listed for testing by private veterinary practices in 1988 and 1989; the number of these herds which have been tested to date, on a county by county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 24asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
17 Mr. Connaughton asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will outline the major points of the new dairy regulations as they apply to Irish dairy farms; and if he is satisfied that farmers will be able to finance the investment involved.
Question· oralPQ 23asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
63 Mr. Kavanagh asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the consideration which has been given by the Government to the possible privatisation of all or part of the Irish Sugar Company; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 22asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
60 Mr. O'Shea asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food his views on whether the sale of a proportion of the Irish Sugar Company to a person (details supplied) will give the person concerned a dominant position in the manufacture and distribution of Irish sugar; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 21asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
48 Mr. Sherlock asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will outline the Government's plans for the future expansion and development of the Irish Sugar Company, especially in light of its record performance in 1989; if he will outline the Government's reaction to the suggestion made by the chairperson of the Irish Sugar Company that part of the company should be privatised; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 20asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
18 Mr. Howlin asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will outline his views regarding the recent statement by the chairperson of the Irish Sugar Company to the effect that a share of that company might be sold to the private sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 19asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
16 Mr. O'Shea asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he has any plans or proposals for the privatisation or commercialisation of any of the companies or agencies under his control; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 18asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
15 Mr. Connor asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he has sought changes in the restrictive regulations governing the application of installation aid for young farmers in Ireland at the recent farm talks in Brussels; the regulations which he sought to have changed; and the success, if any, which he has had in changing the regulations.
Question· oralPQ 17asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
13 Mr. O'Leary asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will arrange to have EC headage grants applied to greyhounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 16asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
12 Mr. Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of depopulated herds in County Tipperary under the bovine TB scheme and the brucellosis eradication scheme; the total number of animals removed by depopulation; the total compensation paid to herd owners in 1988 and 1989; the number of herds in County Tipperary which have had a breakdown in tuberculosis and brucellosis; the number of animals involved in each herd; the total amount of compensation paid in 1988 and 1989; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Question· oralPQ 15asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 1990
11 Mr. Kavanagh asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will give a detailed breakdown of the sum allocated in the Estimates for his Department for advertising and publicity; and if he will make a statement on the matter.