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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (27 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Rásaíocht Con Éireann (RCÉ) is a commercial state body, established under the Greyhound Industry Act, 1958 chiefly to control greyhound racing and to improve and develop the greyhound industry. RCÉ is a body corporate and a separate legal entity to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The question raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (27 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Rásaíocht Con Éireann (RCÉ) is a commercial state body, established under the Greyhound Industry Act, 1958 chiefly to control greyhound racing and to improve and develop the greyhound industry. RCÉ is a body corporate and a separate legal entity to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The question raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (27 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Rásaíocht Con Éireann (RCÉ) is a commercial state body, established under the Greyhound Industry Act, 1958 chiefly to control greyhound racing and to improve and develop the greyhound industry. RCÉ is a body corporate and a separate legal entity to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The question raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: There are currently valid licences issued for approximately 7,000ha that could be utilised before the end of 2022. Of these 2,194 ha represents 714 applications with a GPC3 component, approved since 1st January 2022. My Department has written out to all applicants with a valid licence in February this year encouraging them to utilise their licence and I would encourage anyone with a valid...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The COFORD Council is a stakeholder platform that provides advice to the Department on the development of the forest sector. The current Council has recently published a number of reports covering areas from forest genetics, timber forecasts to climate change. COFORD has recently published a series of statements on the importance of forests and wood products for climate change...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The target of 8,000 hectares of new afforestation per year as set out in the Climate Action Plan 2021 includes all of my Department's tree planting measures that are 0.1 hectares or more in size. This includes the small-scale tree planting referred to in the Forestry Licensing Plan 2022 and it is currently intended that this will form part of our delivery on the 8,000 target. As the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (27 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: As the Deputy will be aware, the price of beef, as with any commodity, is a commercial matter. Neither I nor the Department has any role in the determination of commodity prices However, I am, acutely aware of the pressures being faced across the agri-food sector due to the increase in input costs. Since the invasion of Ukraine, I have taken a proactive approach to dealing with the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (27 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: As you know, following a public consultation process in which over 900 submissions were received, the then Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine announced in December 2018 that vessels over 18m 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 18m targeting sprat...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Identification Schemes (26 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Following the conclusion of a stakeholder consultation process the Department introduced mandatory electronic identification (EID) of cattle in July 2022. In essence this means that all calves that are born on or after 1st July 2022 must be identified with 2 official identification tags one of which contains an electronic component. In line with EU requirements my Department introduced a tag...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Policy (26 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 195, 196 and 198 together. The proposed Nature Restoration Law was formally adopted by the European Commission in late June. The proposals set out legally binding targets in the form of a regulation which will have direct effect across a broad range of ecosystem types, both terrestrial and marine. These proposed targets would require restoration of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: My colleague, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, is the lead in relation to the Nature Restoration Law. The proposed Nature Restoration Law is a key element of the EU Biodiversity Strategy which calls for binding targets to restore degraded ecosystems. Across Europe there has been widespread decline in biodiversity with many habitats in poor condition. The proposed...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (26 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: This Government supports the live export of animals as it is an important feature of normal activity in Ireland's agri food sector. My Department facilitates this trade, in line with existing legislation on the protection of animal welfare, recognising its critical importance to the Agri- Food sector, while ensuring that live animal exports are carried out in compliance with legislative...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (26 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine only permits animals to be transported in compliance with the EU's animal welfare legislation. Ireland has also introduced its own national legislation regulating animal welfare in dedicated livestock vessels, which lays down more stringent controls that go far beyond those in EU law. Furthermore, over the past three years, my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (26 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: There are a wide variety of items available under the suite of seven measures under TAMS. Fertiliser Spreaders are grant aided under the Tillage Capital Investment Scheme, Young Farmers Capital Investment Scheme and the Animal Welfare Nutrient and Storage Scheme of TAMSII. To date, total expenditure under the seven measures of TAMS, including transitional expenditure, has exceeded...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (26 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 202 and 203 together. The Dairy Beef Welfare scheme as part of the new CSP has an annual budget of €5 million and enhances the integration between the dairy and beef systems by improving the value of the dairy beef calf to the beef farmer, and improving the welfare of the calf, by supporting the use of high DBI (dairy beef index) sires in the production...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wastewater Treatment (26 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The Government recognises the importance of investment in waste water infrastructure which will deliver significant improvements in our waste water services throughout the country, including rural Ireland, and support a range of programmes delivering improved water quality in rivers, lakes and in the marine area. The EPA report referred to by the Deputy recognises that progress is being made...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: As the Deputy may already be aware, under their new forestry strategic vision, Coillte aims to grow 100,000 hectares of new forests by 2050 but are also committing to managing its existing forest estate to capture an additional 10 million tonnes of CO2 by 2050, including through the redesigning of poorly productive peatlands. My Department's letter to DG Environment, dated 24 November...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Coillte is a private limited company established under the Forestry Act 1988 and is operationally independent from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. I have referred the matter to Coillte for direct follow-up with the Deputy.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I have put money on the table, with the €12 million to fund the additional month of the scheme, which the sector specifically requested of me to address the fuel crisis and the challenges in that regard. I accessed that from the Brexit Adjustment Reserve fund, because that is bringing fresh funding into the fishing sector, rather than take it out of the EMFF, which is already in the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: As I said, I have put €12 million into this scheme, which has been running from June and will continue to the end of November and which was sought from me by fishing representatives. It has been welcomed by those who have availed of it and it has been important to them. I am now reassessing that situation. It is important from a food security point of view that fishing is happening,...