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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (5 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Scheme (TAMS 3) provides grants to farmers to build and/or improve a specified range of farm buildings and equipment on their holdings. There is an indicative budget of €370 million available for the period 2023-2027, and all investments must be linked to Climate, Environment or Animal Welfare. TAMS 3 is a demand-led scheme, and there are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (5 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Scheme (TAMS 3) provides grants to farmers to build and/or improve a specified range of farm buildings and equipment on their holdings. There is an indicative budget of €370 million available for the period 2023-2027, and all investments must be linked to Climate, Environment or Animal Welfare. Tranche 1 of TAMS 3 closed on 30 June 2023,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (5 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Since the time my Department was first approached with regard to the group commonly referred to as forgotten farmers, the group was defined as young farmers who were under the age of 40 in 2015, had established their holdings prior to 2008 and held no or low value payment entitlements. The EU Regulations governing the operation of the TAMS Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme do not...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flood Risk Management (5 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Following exceptional flooding in the Shannon Callows during summer 2023, you will be aware that on the 7thNovember 2023, I announced the launch of the Shannon Callows Flood Scheme. The aim of the scheme is to support farmers who have been affected by fodder loss due to flooding in the region during summer 2023. I have allocated funding of approximately €800,000 which will allow for a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Advertising (5 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Social media is one of the channels my Department uses to provide information about the Department's wide range of schemes, services and policies. My Department continues to keep all channels of communication under review with a view to providing accessible and effective public information. A breakdown of expenditure by year for the period requested is set out in the below table. ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (5 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Under my Departments Afforestation scheme there is provision made for the protection of trees from grazing animals, including deer. Funding for fencing ideally should be applied for pre-establishment of the forest, at application stage. The fencing allowance for deer fencing must be approved in advance and will be based on the area enclosed and protected by the deer fence. Further...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Sector (5 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) is the body approved in Ireland in accordance with the relevant EU legislation to conduct testing, genetic evaluation and publication of breeding values for dairy and beef cattle. As part of their remit, I am advised that ICBF have recently updated breeding indices, the first major update since 2015, based predominately on changing economic drivers...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (5 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: As outlined previously in Parliamentary Questions Nos 121 and 122 of 29 November 2023 owners of ash forests affected by ash dieback are treated as a special case and my Department has allowed, on a case by case basis, and in accordance with my Departments document ‘Felling and Reforestation Policy (2017)’, the conversion of ash forests devastated by ash dieback to be replanted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Provisional estimates of emissions from agriculture last year were 23.3 MtCO2eq and were 1.2% lower than in 2021. We are seeing progress. Admittedly, it is slow but it is building. We are below our 2018 baseline, which we have to reduce by 25% by 2030. Many of the measures that we are taking though are measures which will build and continuing to deliver and gather momentum over the next...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Like every other Department, we have ground to make up and we need to see the measures that we are adopting help to achieve that. It is challenging to meet those targets but every effort is being made through the different schemes and policies we are putting in place to move in that direction. I suppose, like every other sector of the economy, these are big tanks to turn. Progress builds...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: It is a similar reduction to 2018. There have been some small reductions and then, the year before last, there was a slight increase. We are now approximately 1.2% or 1.3% below 2018.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: By 2030.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: By 2030.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The assistant secretary tells me that diversification was not included in those figures and we strongly believe that over the course of this decade, we will see an uptake in diversification. Anaerobic digestion, in particular, has significant potential in providing diversification opportunities not only with regard to income but also with regard to land use, which can add to that as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: It is because we have not made significant progress on them so far for the EPA to say that it can with authority include them as measures that will produce outcomes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Forestry is an area where we feel there is potential. We have announced a new forestry programme in the past few months. It is to significantly change the incentives for farmers to take that up. We hope we will see progress on that. One of the other key diversification opportunities is AD, the strategy for which will be published this quarter. We want to see that lead to more AD...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: It is still under consideration. It is one of the steps that remain to be considered fully.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Models have been looked at as to how such a scheme could work, were we go ahead and step it out. I have been engaging with stakeholders throughout the agriculture sector as regards the place a reduction scheme might play. There is very considerable opposition among farmers and throughout the food supply chain to the introduction of such a scheme. There are lots of measures which we are...