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Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: We cannot talk about economic recovery without talking about a cost-of-living crisis facing many families and workers across an array of areas, whether it be the huge rents and mortgages we talk about here, the insurance costs that are still crippling people or childcare costs. In particular, the issue that comes up time and again is the cost of home heating and motor fuel, which is putting...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: A report from earlier this year from the NESC highlighted the LEADER programme as a crucial programme for addressing and developing the rural economy. In fact, in the Taoiseach's remarks yesterday, he made a similar point and he was right. The difficulty, though, is that the LEADER programme has been hollowed out in recent years. In the 2007 to 2013 programme, the allocation to LEADER...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the remedy open to ensure compliance with environmental regulations relating to water quality in which a farmer is not in receipt of CAP payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59285/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the livestock schemes proposed in the CAP Strategic Plan that will require Bord Bia Quality Assurance membership; the ones that will not; the justification for inclusion and not inclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59284/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the remedy open to ensure compliance with environmental regulations relating to air quality in which a farmer is not in receipt of CAP payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59285/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the statutory instrument which facilitates his Department to imposing penalties on payments relating to Pillar 1 payments of the Common Agricultural Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59286/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 222. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Baccalauréat Professionnel level 4 on the European Qualifications Framework is recognised as fulfilling the need for a Green Certificate level 5 Quality and Qualifications Ireland in relation to requirements to participate in departmental schemes; the reason for such; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59287/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 223. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of seed potato produced in the State; the amount imported to the State from Scotland by year in each of the years 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59288/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 224. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the increased resources provided to his Departments seed certification team in order to increase domestic capacity to produce seed potato in response to Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59289/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 225. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding allocated for young farmers under Pillar 1 of the CAP in each of the years 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59290/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 226. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to resume convergence in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59291/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 227. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the allocation to offset the additional cost to farmers resulting from mandatory EID tagging of cattle is intended to fully or partially offset the cost for those farmers who do not reach the schemes cap; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59292/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy and Young Farmers: Engagement with Macra na Feirme (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: I welcome Mr. Keane and his colleagues. I regret we are not able to meet in the committee room. I thank Macra na Feirme for its ongoing engagement with the committee and its constructive role not only in assisting this committee in its different deliberations but also in helping to shape Irish farm policy more broadly in a very progressive direction. I commend everybody involved in that....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy and Young Farmers: Engagement with Macra na Feirme (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: In terms of the other member states operating within a EU framework that have much better and healthier proportions of young farmers operating, is there a key flagship programme that some of those operate under? Is there a number of simple examples that we can take from any of those and simply extrapolate them into the Irish plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy and Young Farmers: Engagement with Macra na Feirme (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: I thank Mr. Keane. When he becomes aware of those specific schemes that operate well in other states, will he please inform this committee of them for our work? In regard to the figures Mr. Keane gave on the farmer share in the value chain, and the fact that we saw a decline in farmer share during a period when added-value was actually increasing, where does he see the potential for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy and Young Farmers: Engagement with Macra na Feirme (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: Is Mr. Keane happy enough that we can devise a scheme? I agree that when farmers retire, the sense of driving them off the land entirely and forcing them to have no part in the workings of the farm is crazy. That is one reason the previous schemes did not have greater buy-in. The argument in favour of that type of approach is to ensure that this is more than just a paper exercise and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy and Young Farmers: Engagement with Macra na Feirme (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: Well said. Access to finance is something that this committee has heard about quite often. I ask Mr. Keane to elaborate on the specific problems encountered by younger farmers and the measures that are needed to address them. I will finish at that and will comment at the end when other members have finished, if there is time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy and Young Farmers: Engagement with Macra na Feirme (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: I apologise that I had to step out so my question might have been answered already. The question was on the forgotten farmers. They are young farmers but because they entered farming too early they were previously ineligible for young farmer supports. The Minister previously spoke about how this would be dealt with in the context of the forthcoming CAP. We were dealing with officials last...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy and Young Farmers: Engagement with Macra na Feirme (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: Apologies for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy and Young Farmers: Engagement with Macra na Feirme (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: No. Everything else I was interested in was covered. I thank our guests from Macra na Feirme again. I am sure we will see them again soon.