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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (14 Dec 2021)

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 (14 Dec 2021)

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: Control of Dogs (14 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The Microchipping of Dogs Regulations, 2015 includes the requirement to record the unique identifying code of the person who implants the microchip and registers the dog. Information available to my Department indicates that the microchip database referred to records this information in compliance with the regulation. As the seizure of the animals referred to is the subject of a Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (14 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department is committed to the reduction of ammonia emissions and, to this end, published the Code of Good Agricultural Practice for Reducing Ammonia Emissions from Agriculture on 12th January 2021. There are a wide variety of items available under the suite of seven measures under TAMS which help with the reduction of ammonia emissions. Support for poultry farmers is provided under...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (14 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: As a result of my Department’s recent technical supplementary estimate and the ongoing management of financial resources, €669m has now been allocated to Pillar II schemes and €529m spent to date in 2021, with the remaining €140m expected to issue in December. EAFRD funding claimed from the European Union on expenditure incurred from January 2021 to 15 October...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (14 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: A total of €2.3 billion in national exchequer funding will be made available for the 2023-2027 CAP Strategic Plan. When combined with Ireland’s €1.56 billion in Pillar II funding arising from last year’s agreement on the EU budget, this will bring the allocation for Rural Development measures to a total of €3.86 billion over the five year period. In...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (14 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The CAP Strategic Plan Regulation contains a number of particular requirements for all EU Member States in relation to the redistribution of direct payments. In that context, I am proposing to implement capping of direct payments at €66,000 by making full use of the flexibility in the regulation where payments between €60,000 and €100,000 can be reduced by 85% giving...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (14 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: Total CAP Pillar 1 payments for the year 2021 to date were €1.131 billion. This includes €777.5 million under 2021 Basic Payment, €340.7 million under Greening, €10.1 million under the 2021 Young Farmers Scheme and €2.7 million under the 2021 Protein Scheme. Processing of applications is continuing and further payments are being made as more applicants...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (14 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The number of sheep that have received payment under the scheme for each of the scheme years since Year 1 of the scheme commenced in February 2017 is set out in the following table. Scheme Year Number of eligible breeding ewes receiving payment 2017 1,890,130 2018 1,771,078 2019 1,724,087 ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (14 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I am committed to the long-term viability of the sheep sector and the dedicated sheep farmers who produce a world-class product. The Sheep Improvement Scheme aims to build on the progress made by the Sheep Welfare Scheme (SWS) in the 2014-2020 RDP by providing support for actions that improve animal health and welfare in the sheep sector. The programme budget will be allocated equally...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (14 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The information requested by the Deputy is currently being prepared and will be forwarded directly to the Deputy when it is available.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: Teagasc's National Farm Survey is carried out on an annual basis on a representative sample of farms to cover all farm enterprises with a standard output of greater than €8,000. The NFS represents 93,244 farms nationally but does not provide a breakdown of results by county. According to the Teagasc National Farm Survey (NFS) 2020, there were 16,074 dairy farms in 2020. 1,888 (12%) of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (14 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 807 and 808 together. I am actively considering in consultation with the Sea Fisheries Protection Agency, the designation of Dunmore East for direct landings by fishing vessels from Third Countries and the designation of Malin Head for landings of Northern Ireland vessels. I am also actively considering an extension to the existing opening hours of Rathmullen,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calafoirt agus Céanna (14 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: Tá an Tuarascáil Anailís Costais is Tairbhe a bhaineann le tionscadal na Cé Doimhne faighte agam agus tá scrúdú á dhéanamh ag Oifigigh i mo Roinn ar an tuarascáil seo faoi láthair, scrúdú a mbeidh ról lárnach aige sa chinneadh a dhéanfar maidir le maoiniú a chur ar fáil le haghaidh tionscadal dá...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: As the Deputy is probably aware, we are currently finalising the preparation of our CAP Strategic Plan (CSP), which will be submitted to the Commission for approval by the end of the year. The plan contains a comprehensive set of schemes which will lead to reductions in absolute greenhouse gas emissions, with significant co-benefits for air, water quality and biodiversity. Central to the CSP...

Seafood Taskforce Final Report: Statements (9 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: It is a unanimous report.

Seafood Taskforce Final Report: Statements (9 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: It is a unanimous report.

Seafood Taskforce Final Report: Statements (9 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank all the speakers for their contributions to this very important debate. It is obviously an important time and has been a crucial year for our fishing sector. It was a very difficult year for our fishermen, coming out of the impact of the Brexit agreement. It was really important we had this debate to discuss the sea fisheries task force report, which was presented to me in October,...

Seafood Taskforce Final Report: Statements (9 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and colleagues. I apologise for the slight delay in starting. I thank the House for this opportunity to update it on the outcome of the seafood task force process that I instigated in March this year in response to the unacceptable outcome for Ireland’s seafood sector of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, TCA. It is appropriate that I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (9 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The eco-schemes will run alongside the new agri-environmental scheme, which will pay up to a maximum of €10,000 to farmers participating in co-operative measures. Up to a maximum of €7,000 will be paid to those in the standard environmental scheme. The range of options in the eco-schemes in Pillar 1 will give opportunities to everyone. We encourage everyone to participate,...