Pat Breen
Question:425. Deputy Pat Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1542/16]
View answerGLAS Payments
Questions (425)
Written answers
The person named has been approved under Tranche 1 of GLAS with a contract start date of 1 October 2015. GLAS applicants with a start date of 1 October 2015 are entitled to a 2015 part-year payment in respect of certain actions, and covering the three month period 1 October 2015-31 December 2015.
During the prepayment validation checks on the application of the person named two queries were identified. Department officials are examining these issues with a view to resolving them and moving to process the application for the part-year payment as soon as possible.
Question No. 426 answered with Question No. 413.
Basic Payment Scheme Payments
Questions (427)
Pat Breen
Question:427. Deputy Pat Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1545/16]
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An application under the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 29 May, 2015. Processing of this application has been finalised and payment has issued to the nominated bank account of the person named.
Question No. 428 answered with Question No. 320.
Organic Farming Scheme Applications
Questions (429)
Pat Breen
Question:429. Deputy Pat Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1555/16]
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An Organic Farming Scheme payment issued to the person named on 24 December 2015. The payment which issued is the 85% advance payment of the 2015 Organic Farming Scheme. The balancing 15% payment will be processed once the required checks have been completed on all applications, in accordance with the governing EU Regulations.
Agri-Environment Options Scheme Appeals
Questions (430)
Michael Healy-Rae
Question:430. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the agri-environment options scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1560/16]
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The person named lodged a complaint with my Department’s Quality Service Unit on 7 July 2015. A very comprehensive breakdown of his case was included in the reply that issued from the Unit dated 25 August 2015. Having concluded their review of the matter, the Unit also in formed the person named that he had the further option of contacting the Office of the Ombudsman if he still felt unfairly treated.
Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Payments
Questions (431)
Pat Breen
Question:431. Deputy Pat Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 9 December 2015, when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1561/16]
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An application under the 2015 Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme was received from the person named on 1 May, 2015. Processing of this application has recently been finalised, and payment is due to issue to the nominated bank account of the person named shortly.
Agriculture Scheme Payments
Questions (432)
Charlie McConalogue
Question:432. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1564/16]
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The person named applied to the National Reserve in 2015 for a new allocation of entitlements to enable participation in the Basic Payment Scheme. Payment to the person named under the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme will be based on entitlements allocated from the 2015 National Reserve. Payments under the National Reserve commenced in December 2015 and are on-going. The person named submitted applications under the ‘young farmer’ category of the 2015 National Reserve and also applied under the Young Farmers Scheme. These applications have now been fully processed and payment will issue directly to the nominated bank account of the person named shortly.
Defence Forces Medicinal Products
Questions (433)
Clare Daly
Question:433. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence further to response to Parliamentary Question No. 97 of 11 November 2015 wherein the Minister states that he is awaiting the outcome of seven files, if these files have been completed; and if he will forward this information to this Deputy. [46480/15]
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I refer to previous Parliamentary Questions requesting a breakdown of anti-malaria drugs prescribed to Irish troops operating in sub-Saharan Africa in 2015. I apologise for the delay in responding. The information sought required a considerable amount of manual checking of the medical files. The following table gives a breakdown from January to July 2015.
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Malaria Chemo-prophylaxis presbribed. |
Number of Personnel |
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Lariam |
45 |
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Malarone |
14 |
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Doxycycline |
1 |
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Total |
60 ( total) |
Defence Forces Personnel
Questions (434)
Pádraig MacLochlainn
Question:434. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Defence if he will proceed with the Defence Forces operational service medal to be awarded for service on missions not governed by the United Nations, the European Union or similar mandates; and when the sailors on Operation Pontus and the members of the Defence Forces on the ebola medical mission in Sierra Leone will be paraded to receive the medal. [46649/15]
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I am advised that a service medal that could be awarded for humanitarian service overseas, where no other United Nations, NATO or European Union Force medal is relevant, is currently at the planning and development stage within the Department. Once this process has been completed, I would envisage that arrangements for the awarding of such medals could commence soon afterwards.
Defence Forces Allowances
Questions (435)
Pádraig MacLochlainn
Question:435. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Defence the date on which the adjudicator will sit in 2016 to decide on the provision of the armed overseas peace support allowance, given the overwhelming evidence of all the military authorities. [46650/15]
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Members of the Naval Service engaged in the Maritime Humanitarian Search and Rescue Operation in the Mediterranean were paid the rate for “Unarmed Peace Support Allowance”. This is the same allowance as has been paid in the past to Army personnel deployed on humanitarian operations such as in Sierra Leone and Haiti. The Representative Associations are seeking payment of the Armed Peace Support Allowance and Patrol Duty Allowance in addition to the Unarmed Peace Support Allowance.
The Naval Service operation is not an armed mission in the sense of armed missions in UNIFIL (Lebanon), UNDOF (Golan Heights), Chad etc. where they require to be armed and be able to deliver an armed response to events on the ground as part of the mission mandate. The Humanitarian operation in the Mediterranean does not fall within these parameters. In addition, the fact that Naval Vessels carry arms and have installed guns does not of itself make this an armed mission.
The claims are being processed through the Conciliation and Arbitration Scheme for Members of the Permanent Defence Force process. Discussions have taken place with the Representative Associations with regard to the claims. The Deputy will appreciate that as discussions under the Scheme are confidential to that process, it would be inappropriate for me to make any comment on these claims at this time.
Easter Rising Commemorations
Questions (436)
Pádraig MacLochlainn
Question:436. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Defence if he will issue a 1916 centenary medal to all serving members of Óglaigh na hÉireann who participate in the commemoration in 2016 and who have a minimum of three years of service. [46651/15]
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The State is undertaking a comprehensive programme of commemorations during 2016 which commenced on New Year’s Day in Dublin Castle. Further details of the commemorations being held this year are available at www.ireland.ie. I am currently considering any further initiatives that may be introduced in this context.