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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: Irish Grass Fed Beef PGI was registered by the European Commission on 27th November 2023. The PGI is on an all-island basis representing farmers and processors north and south, with Bord Bia as the applicant on behalf of producers and processors here, and their counterpart the Livestock and Meat Commission as the applicant in Northern Ireland. Since registration, my Department and Bord...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Investigations (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: My Department provides a variety of extensive supports as part of the Bovine Viral Diarrheal (BVD) eradication programme. Among these are financial supports to farmers in respect of herds that disclose one or more animals with BVD test positive or inconclusive test result. The financial support available is: - For Dairy breeds animals: €160 if the dairy female or dairy cross...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grant Payments (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: In acknowledgement of the urgency of support required following Storm Eowyn, I opened a new TAMS 3 tranche for a three-week period to deal specifically with storm-related damage on farms. This tranche opened on 7 March 2025, and closed on 28 March 2025. The specific items in respect of which applications were accepted over this three-week period are as follows:Backup PTO Generators (this...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Marine Protected Areas (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: In 2018, a transition period to a ban on vessels over 18 metres trawling in inshore waters, inside the six nautical mile zone and the baselines, was announced. This measure, however, was the subject of extended legal proceedings resulting in the measure being overturned in 2023. In 2024, over a period of eight weeks, the Minister held a new public consultation on a review of trawling...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grant Payments (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: The Women Farmers Capital Investment Scheme is one of ten measures in the Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Scheme (TAMS 3), which provides grants to farmers to build and/or improve a specified range of farm buildings and equipment on their holdings. A standard grant rate of 40% is provided for all eligible investments in TAMS 3, with an enhanced 60% rate available to women farmers who...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grant Payments (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: The person named submitted an application under the 2024 Complementary Income Support for Young Farmers scheme. This application was selected as part of the required 10% of applications where an on-the-spot-check is carried out to verify that the young farmer applicant can demonstrate full financial and managerial control of the agricultural holding, as required under the Terms and Conditions...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grant Payments (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: The person named was accepted into ACRES General Tranche 1, with a contract commencement date of January 1st 2023. I can confirm that all ACRES payments in respect of 2023 have been finalised for this participant. The advance payment claim associated with this herd in respect of 2024 has not yet cleared all the necessary pre-payment validation checks. My Department is actively working to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Policies (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 595, 596 and 619 together. My Department officials are in regular contact with the ESB, particularly in the aftermath of Storm Éowyn. On 5th February 2025, a decision was made by Government to request ESB Networks to develop a Winter 2025 Grid Resilience Plan. A key component of this plan will be the requirement to safeguard the electrical...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: My Department is committed to meeting the Farmers' Charter timelines for the processing of all forestry applications, namely, that applications will be completed within six months in the case of files screened out from environmental assessment, and within nine months in the case of those screened in for environmental assessment. My Department has issued 527 licences so far this year. Last...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: In accordance with section 3 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act 2003, the Register of Sea Fishing Boats is maintained by the Registrar General for Sea Fishing Boats and is publicly available online at: gov.ie - Sea Fisheries Administration (www.gov.ie). The register is updated every two weeks. In addition, the EU Commission publishes annual fleet reports including Ireland which are also...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: In Ireland, fishing quota, including pelagic stocks such as Mackerel and Herring, is a public resource and is managed to provide for proper management, conservation and rational exploitation of the State’s fishing quotas.  It is managed as a public good that ensures that property rights are not granted to individual operators. This is seen as a critical policy in order to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: This Government is prioritising farm safety, health and wellbeing through the appointment of a Minister of State Michael Healy-Rae T.D. with specific responsibility for the area and a Programme for Government that includes a specific focus on farm safety, mental health and well-being. I secured dedicated funding of €2.5 million in Budget 2025 to build on previous efforts to improve...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 601 and 602 together. I can confirm that a total of 542 farmers with holdings in County Carlow are currently active participants in ACRES. Of this total, 197 farmers are currently awaiting their 2024 scheme year advance payments, of which 14 are also awaiting finalisation of 2023 payments. With regard to County Kilkenny, 760 farmers are currently...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: The new Programme for Government prioritises “supporting inter-generational farm succession”. Food Vision 2030, our shared strategy for the agri-food sector, states that generational renewal in farming is critically important to ensure the future viability and social sustainability of the Irish agri-food sector and of rural Ireland. Demographic challenges for the agricultural...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: While taxation policy is primarily the responsibility of my colleague the Minister of Finance, I work closely with him on taxation issues relating to my direct areas of responsibility. Tax reliefs on training fees for those looking to get involved in a horse partnership or syndicate is not something I am considering at present.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: The table below details average payments to farmers in Carlow and Kilkenny for full years 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. Payments consist of direct and capital payments, including payments provided under Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Schemes (TAMS). - 2021 2022 2023 2024 County Average Farmer Payment Rounded to nearest...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 606, 607 and 609 together. Rásaíocht Con Éireann (RCÉ) is a commercial state body, established under the Greyhound Industry Act, 1958 chiefly to control greyhound racing and to improve and develop the greyhound industry. RCÉ is a body corporate and a separate legal entity to the Department of Agriculture, Food and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: Reply not received from Department.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 610 and 611 together. The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) is the regulatory body for all horseracing in Ireland.  The role of the IHRB is provided for under the  Horse Racing Ireland Act 2016 and subsequent Statutory Instruments, however the body itself remains a private entity.   Under the Act, the IHRB is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Bodies (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: The information sought by the Deputy is an operational matter for the State Bodies under the aegis of my Department. I have referred the Deputy’s question to the State Bodies and have requested that a response issue within 10 days.