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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Scheme of Investment Aid for the Development of the Commercial Horticulture Sector provides support to the horticulture sector in the form of grant aid for capital investments in specialised plant and equipment. The Scheme is subject to EU Guidelines for State Aid in the Agricultural and Forestry Sector and in Rural Areas (Agricultural Guidelines). New Agricultural Guidelines came...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Scheme of Investment Aid for the Development of the Commercial Horticulture Sector provides support to the horticulture sector in the form of grant aid for capital investments in specialised plant and equipment. The Scheme is subject to EU Guidelines for State Aid in the Agricultural and Forestry Sector and in Rural Areas (Agricultural Guidelines). New Agricultural Guidelines came...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (25 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The new CAP 2023-2027 came into force this year and payments will commence in the final quarter of the year across a very broad range of schemes. With this being the first year of the new CAP Strategic Plan, a whole range of new schemes are being introduced along with substantial changes to existing schemes over a relatively short time period. The Department is fully committed to making...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (25 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Disputes that arise between a land owner and a turbary right owner are a private matter between the parties concerned and it would not be appropriate or helpful for me or my Department to comment or offer advice on such matters.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (25 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department has been in contact with the person named and he has undertaken to submit additional information. Once this information is received the Department will consider it further and will contact the person named regarding the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Contracts (25 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has had three contracts with KPMG in the past 12 months which are set out in the attached table. Details of contract Value of Contract € Provision of Business Intelligence and Analytics Services for the Data Analytics Unit within the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine 291,600 ...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I met Deputy McNamara about this issue and his Oireachtas colleagues in County Clare as well as a delegation from the county.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The BurrenLife scheme is one of the great examples of what we can do, from an environmental perspective. It was a pilot scheme with a small number of farmers and the payments were more significant. We are broadening out ACRES and bringing more people into the scheme. The vast majority of applicants who will be participating in ACRES in the Burren will be better off. There is a small...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: This is something the Deputy and I have discussed on several occasions. As he will be aware, I have granted unprecedented funding to piers and harbours throughout the country. In normal years, €3 million or €4 million would be spent on local authority piers in any one year. In the past year, I have allocated almost €40 million to piers and harbours, many of which are...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Were I to get a capital application-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Were I to get an application for capital works, I can grant that, but the onus is on the local authority to get to the stage where it can make the application.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (20 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputy Dillon; I will work with him. It is a really important sector. We are doing a lot for it this year. I know the ask is that we do more. As a representative and a Deputy for a county where the sheep sector is very important, Deputy Dillon will be keeping the pressure on me to do all that is possible to deliver more. I look forward to working with him in order to back the sector.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: There is no substance to what Deputy Tóibín is saying. The Government is massively committed to supporting farmers at all stages of their careers. The Deputy should have noticed the historic step we have taken in the legislation we are bringing through the Houses, which will complete that journey next Wednesday, in relation to the new food regulator. The Bill is very much about...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: It was three or four years ago.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy is constantly peddling a narrative that it is just a matter of setting a minimum price, saying what the price should be and giving that price to farmers. The reality is that 90% of the food we produce goes abroad and is sold abroad. We have to work in that market situation. The Deputy should recognise what we are delivering and stop peddling a pig in a poke which has no...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy should not mistake our allowing and facilitating his bringing a Bill before the Dáil as somehow supporting what he is doing. I see nothing of substance coming from him. He stated that Aontú found this and that out but Aontú has proposed nothing, not one scheme. It has not proposed anything in relation to the bar. The Deputy is running around trying to find a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: What we are doing over here is rolling up our sleeves and getting on with the serious business of delivering serious measures for farmers such as the food regulator Bill. Meanwhile, the Deputy is off peddling the fallacy that if we just introduced a law saying a farmer should get this price or that price, the world would be great.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: It is time to get on with it and deliver a bit of substance.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: We are doing the hard work of trying to support farmers and, importantly, supporting young farmers through the various and many measures we have introduced for them.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (20 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The sheep sector in Mayo, no more than in my home county of Donegal, is an important part of the farming make-up. It has been under pressure in recent months, certainly for store finishers who had a challenging winter with prices down on previous years and increased costs. With the new CAP this year, the schemes that are in place and the changes to the entitlement structure will benefit...