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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: 215. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of participants in the sheep welfare scheme in 2021; the number of breeding ewes on which payment was made; the rate of payment, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34758/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: 216. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount allocated by his Department to the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland to date; the current book value of loans to farmers or fishermen currently arising from such funding; the current potential value of loans available to farmers or fishermen to apply for; in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: 217. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding provided by his Department to the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland with regard to the Brexit impact loan scheme to facilitate the provision of credit to farmers and fishermen; the total potential value of loans arising from same; the total and average value of such loans which have been made; the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Bia (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: 218. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount allocated to Bord Bia from 2017 to date; the amount that was expended on marketing campaigns; the stated aims of such campaigns; the amount expended exclusively towards the promotion of organics, by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34761/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: 219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions within the climate action plan that relate to the promotion of organic farming; the progress that has been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34762/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: 220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 955 of 30 July 2020, the amount of funding that his Department received from the European Union Multiannual Financial Framework in respect of Pillar 1 in each year since 2019; the expected return for 2022 through 2027, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34771/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: 221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos, 1168, 1170 and 1171 of 15 June 2021, if he will provide equivalent information in relation to the number of recipients of Pillar 1 funds, in bands and by county, in tabular form, in each of the years 2021 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34772/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: 222. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 355 of 20 May 2021; the amount of funding provided to Pillar 2 schemes from the Exchequer and the amount co-funded by the State, by scheme, in the years 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34773/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: 223. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers participating in then beef environmental efficiency programme - sucklers in 2021 in which one, two, three and four cow and calf pairs were weighted; the payment received, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34774/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: 224. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers participating in the beef data and genomics programme in 2021 with herd sizes of one, two, three, four and five; the average payment received; the average hectarage of such herds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34775/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Is that the conclusion of Part 1?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will speak to Part 1. I thank the Minister and his officials for being here and presenting the heads of the Bill. I too look forward to pre-legislative scrutiny. To follow on from the Minister's point, I hope and trust he will engage with us constructively on ways in which we can strengthen the Bill. I understand the Minister's sentiments when he says he wants to get this legislation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Are we up to head 5?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: I have a question on head 7, the establishment of the office for fairness and transparency in the agrifood supply chain, and the process that led to this proposal. The programme for Government provided for the establishment of a food ombudsman. When the matter went out for public consultation, there was reference to a food ombudsman and a food regulator. From where did the title for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: I have a question that follows on from our previous discussion on the name, which I still do not fully understand. I mean that rather than having an ombudsman or a regulator it appears that we have neither. Heads 8 and 9 deal with the functions of the new office. One of the reasons, which has been mentioned at every farmers' meeting over the past decade which any of us has attended,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Let us say a farmer or an individual reports to the new office for fairness and transparency, and shows that on a given day 15 separate factories offered prices for beef that were within 1% of each other. What would the office do with that information? How would it identify whether the activity is price fixing on a grand scale or, as I have called it, cartel-like behaviour? What impact and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: That is why I have asked about the new body.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: What will the office examine?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Minister has mentioned world markets and of course they dictate prices. Understandably, the price of timber has fluctuated greatly in the past year and that situation is reflected in the price we will pay in any hardware shortage. Timber is dearer now than it was this time last year. If every timber or hardware store sold the same piece of timber at a price within 1% of the other, and...