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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: What we budgeted for in terms of projections was 30,000 people.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: My objective would be to ensure there are places for those who want to take part. We will move to tranche 2 next year. Obviously, if we do more this year, we have to engage around the budget. To achieve and ensure there is a place for everyone, I have to engage at Government level to secure approval for that. That is something I would seek to do but it would be for down the road.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: We have allocated the budget to be able to deliver on our targets. Obviously, we are coming from a low base so we want to make real progress on that this year. A fair amount of the budget is recurring premiums for forestry already in the ground. That is the most significant part of it. We have the new rates now available. Anybody who is planting today can avail of the new rates. There...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Provided that an existing licence is there.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: We cannot give a licence today.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: People can make the preparations and do a lot of the work. We are making sure we use the time to clear in order that there is not any lost work time as such. It does require reorientation with regard to work flow. Anybody with an existing licence can plant, however. It is also fair to say that anybody with an existing licence, and this was a challenge in the second half of last year, was...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: They are available under the de minimisfor people who are actually planting now.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: It has to work within state aid rules and that type of requirement in the first instance. I do not believe it can-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: What was the point before the fisheries one?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: On research, they are driving investment into that and doing a lot of good research on beginning to measure soil carbon capture and on food or feed additives, etc. On the decommissioning scheme, I understand the Deputy’s point; it was my initial reaction as well. In the past when decommissioning schemes have been launched and there was not a requirement to decommission the boat, in...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I expect the first part of the land use review to be published pretty soon – in the next couple of weeks.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: We discussed it at Cabinet yesterday. It should be published in the next couple of weeks and it will be moving to part 2.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: My objective, if at all possible, is to include all 46,000 and they have shown the appetite to do it. It is a scheme that will deliver significantly for the environment and biodiversity and also contribute to climate emission reductions. We are assessing our capacity, the infrastructure to be able to deliver it efficiently and also then engaging around budget. If it can achieve it so that...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I know the challenge the sheep sector is facing and how tight it has become in the past number of months. The situation has changed significantly for them. As I said in reply to Deputy Fitzmaurice, I am monitoring it closely. I am engaging closely with Bord Bia on what is happening in the market and what we can do. I am looking at the situation closely. There is not anything in the...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I am not sure whether it has. As of now, I know the team was working to finalise issues in formal engagement with the Commission. It could not be done before 1 January because the state aid guidelines were only published then. Following on from them being published, there has been informal engagement between my Department and the Commission to try to make sure that when the application...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I do not have the updated position as of this morning, except that they are engaging closely. As soon as we believe we have it in a position where it can get the best and quickest answer possible, we will submit it.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Our objective is once we submit it, we get the approval back as quickly as we can. If it takes a little bit more time to prepare the application to shorten the time it takes to get an answer, that is what we will do and the approach we will take. My question then is what indication we got from the Commission of the timeframe for the application considering we are frontloading all of the...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I do not think the Commission will be in a position to say for definite and to tie its own hands. All we can do is make sure that in terms of engaging with it in advance, as many of the likely questions and likely queries are dealt with in the application itself to shorten and toing and froing that happens once the application is made. The objective is, whether before it is submitted or...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The formal timeframe is two to eight months, if I recall. Whenever we submitted a previous application it took four months to get it. Best efforts will certainly be made on everyone's part to deal expeditiously with applications. At the moment and since 1 January that has been in relation to preparing as strong an application as possible.