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Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I move amendment No. 25: In page 53, line 21, after “chain” to insert the following: “(which may, in particular, include provision allowing the regulator to compel the provision of information referred to in section 12(3)(d))”.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank all the Deputies for their work over the thorough process that was involved in bringing this legislation through to where it is. I thank Members for the massive work they put in during Committee Stage and for the comprehensive pre-legislative scrutiny report that was afforded me. Right through this process my objective has been, as it was with Members, to ensure we set up a...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I move amendment No. 20: In page 16, line 3, after “buyers” to insert “, consumers”. This is a straightforward amendment to insert the word "consumers". We discussed it on Committee Stage. Sinn Féin tabled an amendment that I think was ruled out of order. I agreed to look at it to see whether I would bring it back, which I have now done.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I move amendment No. 21: In page 16, lines 13 to 17, to delete all words from and including “(1) The” in line 13 down to and including line 17 and substitute the following: “(1) The regulator shall consist of— (a) a member (in this Act referred to as the “chairperson”) designated by the Minister to chair the regulator, and (b) seven ordinary...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputies Kerrane, Carthy, Michael Healy-Rae and Danny Healy-Rae. My objective in this legislation is to introduce something that will make a real difference on the ground, will bring transparency and will be implementable and effective. I explained earlier about the below-cost selling and the example of beef and how that approach would not benefit farmers or consumers. That had...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: -----to do what the Deputies are trying to claim it will achieve.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: If the Deputy feels there are issues and challenges there, the way to do that is to amend the legislation when the architecture is in place, not to introduce one line in another Bill.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: To touch on that point, and also on the question raised by Deputy Michael Healy-Rae, I am bringing in this legislation to ensure there is fairness, oversight and transparency in the food supply chain, and to be able to give that confidence to farmers, as well as the practical effect that there is fairness in the food supply chain. That is what this food regulator legislation and setting up...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputies Kerrane, Michael Healy-Rae, Carthy and Danny Healy-Rae for their contributions. We had a significant discussion on this matter on Committee Stage as well. I outlined the position in relation to it then. I worked to be collaborative to make sure that the office we bring in here serves farmers and primary producers well, is effective and has the powers necessary to do its...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputies McNamara and Healy-Rae for their contributions, logic and rationale in the context of the amendment. I listened to them and we also gave this a lot of thought before the debate. I understand what Deputy McNamara's amendment seeks to achieve, but it concerns something the Bill, as it stands, will allow, as he pointed out, to be done through regulation. It is important the...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: As I said, I take the points the Deputies made in regard to the need for the regulator to have capacity to require the information, but I am satisfied the powers provided in the legislation, as it stands, to be able to do that by regulation will be strong enough and, importantly, flexible enough to ensure they can work efficiently and that the regulator can be empowered to get the information...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 14: In paragraph (d), to delete “the regulator shall be authorised to”.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I move amendment No. 2 to amendment No. 14: In paragraph (d), to delete “agri-food” and substitute “agricultural and food”.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I move amendment No. 3 to amendment No. 14: In paragraph (d), to delete “(vii) salary, and” and substitute “(vii) salary.”.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I move amendment No. 4 to amendment No. 14: To delete paragraph (e) and substitute the following: “(4) Data referenced under paragraph (d)of subsection (3)may be in paper or electronic form, held by a business involved in the agriculture and food supply chain, or otherwise on their behalf.”.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I move amendment No. 16: In page 11, after line 33, to insert the following: “(7) Where the regulator believes that data relating to a business obtained underparagraph (d)of subsection (3)is or is likely to be of a commercially sensitive nature and is not in the public domain, the regulator shall not publish the data without the consent of the business (notwithstanding section...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Seaweed Harvesting (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Aquaculture Development recognised that the potential for seaweed in Ireland remains underdeveloped but that the sector is attracting new entrants and is highly innovative. It was recognised that as capacity in the Irish sector builds, there is a need for development agencies to innovate and provide support. Following on from this, on 15 May 2023...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: As the Deputy will be aware, in December 2018, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine announced that vessels over 18 metres would be excluded from trawling in inshore waters inside the six nautical mile zone and the baselines from 1 January 2020. A transition period of three years for vessels over 18 metres targeting sprat was allowed to enable adjustment for these vessels, as the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grant Payments (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The person named was approved to GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of 1 October 2015. GLAS payments have issued to this herd for scheme years 2015 – 2021 inclusive. An administrative penalty was imposed on the 2022 GLAS Advance payment of the person named. However this penalty has been removed following appeal. A refund of this penalty will issue as part of the 2022 Balance...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy may be aware that the Government has committed €1.3 billion to the new Forestry Programme, which is the biggest and largest funded Forestry Programme ever introduced by any Government here, and it has been designed to have an emphasis on close to nature forestry and to ensure that farmers will be its primary beneficiaries. The Forestry Programme 2023 - 2027 is subject to...