Results 501-520 of 24,183 for speaker:Charlie McConalogue
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Charlie McConalogue: Is the Deputy talking about whenever an animal is sold as a breeding animal or when an animal is slaughtered and the price being achieved?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Charlie McConalogue: The payment under the compensation scheme-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Charlie McConalogue: Over the course of the last year, for example, the payments in terms of compensation per animal from the scheme would be up by 20% on average. This was primarily related to the fact that more dairy animals were going through the TB programme. As a result, carcase weights would have been less than perhaps the previous balance.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Charlie McConalogue: The amount of funding to make it up, then, increased as a result.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Charlie McConalogue: Yes.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Charlie McConalogue: When the Deputy refers to EBI, is that the economic benefit index?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Charlie McConalogue: Yes. That would be an assessment and would be monitored and carried out through the ICBF in terms of monitoring data and information coming in. That point had not been raised with me and I am not aware of it having been the case.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Charlie McConalogue: Yes, I will look into it further.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Charlie McConalogue: I am not sure that we have a note on it. We do not have a figure for that amount here.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Charlie McConalogue: Yes, we can. We do have one. I can get a note on it but I cannot recall it from memory.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Charlie McConalogue: Yes. In terms of new planting, a big percentage of what goes out in forestry is accounted for by the annual premiums. These last for 15 or 20 years now. This part is predictable because those trees will be there for that length of time. Where we do not have the same predictability is in planting. We have much more predictability over felling, although there is not the same cost...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Charlie McConalogue: -----is reducing in terms of-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Charlie McConalogue: That is the assessment of the productivity of a cow. It is separate from its carcase weight.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Charlie McConalogue: Ensuring farmers get the service they are entitled to from the Department and in terms of the schemes we run is something I take very seriously. The CAP programme last year and all of the schemes operated in a good manner, with payments made on the dates we set out, with the exception of ACRES. ACRES has been a challenge but the other schemes have worked. For the first year the CAP worked...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Acting Chair and the committee for facilitating the discussion today on the Supplementary Estimate for 2024. It is required to make use of savings on the Department’s Vote. It is also required to provide additional funding to meet liabilities in a number of areas. These include 2024 costs apportioned to my Department for the development of the border control post in...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Licences (5 Nov 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: The Equine application for `the stated individual has been processed, and a letter issued on the 29th of October. The delay was caused due to certain required information being missing from the application form.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (5 Nov 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: The BISS application for the herd owner referred to by the Deputy was submitted by his FAS Advisor on 10 May 2024. During BISS Preliminary checks, a dual claim was identified and notified to the herd owner on 4 June 2024. A response was received on 17 June 2024 stating the applicant had the right to claim the land parcels concerned. As a result, my Department issued a dual claim letter on...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (5 Nov 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: In December 2018, a transition period to a ban on vessels over 18 metres trawling in inshore waters, inside the six nautical mile zone was announced. A significant part of the objective of this measure was to manage the fishing effort on sprat stocks which are primarily targeted within inshore waters. This measure, however, was the subject of extended legal proceedings the outcome of which,...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Areas of Conservation (5 Nov 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: The majority of the marine Natura 2000 sites in Ireland (Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas) are inshore, within six nautical miles. I can inform the Deputy that a series of appropriate assessments and risk assessments have been undertaken by my Department in conjunction with the Marine Institute over the years with regard to sea-fishing activities in or near Natura...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Meetings (5 Nov 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: My Department met with the Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland (SEAI) on two occasions in early 2019 prior to the inclusion, on 6 April 2019, of grant aid for solar panel investment in the Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Scheme (TAMS II). These meetings were attended by TAMS Agricultural Inspectors. The meetings focused on the proposed TAMS Solar PV Scheme and the Solar electricity...