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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (13 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 627 and 628 together. Under EU Regulation, it is prohibited to target, retain on board, tranship or land picked dogfish, also known as spurdog, in North Western Waters. The stock was subject to high harvest rates for more than four decades, and fisheries were not managed during this time. The species is a long-lived, slow growing and late maturing...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Safety (13 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: China, as a third country, outside of the European Union, sets its own health standards for incoming food products and notifies the WTO of the standards in place. I understand that the Chinese authorities have recently held a consultation on the health standards that will apply for crab as a food product and I hope that the outcome of this will bring some...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (13 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: Killybegs Fishery Harbour Centre (FHC) is one of the six designated Fishery Harbour Centres which are owned, managed and maintained by the Department under Statute. The FHCs were established to act as dedicated centres and focal points for the promotion and development of the Irish seafood industry which comes under the remit of this Department. Overall policies and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (13 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The Control of Horses Act, 1996 designates responsibility to local authorities for issues relating to stray and neglected horses in both urban and rural areas.  The Department provides funding to the local authorities to assist them in implementation of the Act. From 2015 to date, an amount of €63,166 was paid to Cork City Council to assist in dealing with the issue of stray...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Legal Cases (13 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The numbers of cases brought against the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine since 1st January 2016, sorted by year and cause of action, are included in the table attached. The attached breakdown does not include District Court Appeals from Notices issued by officials, nor does it include cases being managed by the State Claims Agency.  Details of such cases...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Breeding (13 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The table below details the number of cattle and the number of births registered for the period concerned in the townlands requested. There are a small number of herds who have land in more than one of these townlands.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (13 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine does see potential opportunities to attract private finance from voluntary carbon markets. Forest owners and organisations can avail and develop these opportunities as long as they don't impact on Ireland's international accounting and reporting requirements.  The level of grant aid, premiums and tax incentives currently provided by...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (13 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department expects all its staff to fully comply with the law, particularly in areas where it bears responsibility for that law. Where an allegation that a member of staff has failed to do so is upheld, the Department acts robustly, and in accordance with the provision of fair procedures, to address the matter within the scope of the appropriate Civil Service policy.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (13 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 636 and 637 together. The Department is making a change to the public consultation phase for certain forestry licences.  As a result of recent legislative changes made by the European Union (Birds and Natural Habitats) (Amendment) Regulations, 2021, (S.I. No. 293 of 2021), the Department is required to provide additional opportunities for public...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (13 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: Essential Works Contract (Phase 1 of Completion) for the upgrading of Dinish Pier was awarded on 10thMarch 2021 to Sorensen Civil Engineering Ltd.  This is ongoing and on programme and is scheduled to be completed in August 2021. The Completion Works Tender (Phase 2) documents were issued to tender on 28thApril 2021 and tenders were returned on 11thJune 2021. A Tender Report is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: Carbon sequestration by forests is influenced by a range of factors including species, soil type, site conditions and management practices. The rate of sequestration changes over time as a forest develops and matures. When forests are young the sequestration rate is low but as the trees mature their ability to sequester carbon dioxide increases. Earlier this year, Teagasc launched their...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Directives (8 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: As required under the provisions in EU Council Directive 2019/904, the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications recently signed into force national regulations prohibiting the use of single use plastics including films of the type used to cover sown maize. I understand that the industry is developing alternative products for use in the sowing of maize that will comply with...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 329, 330 and 334 together. There are currently 904 afforestation licence applications representing 7,400 hectares on hand in the Department and we are committed to dealing with these licences, along with felling and roads licences on hand. The weekly statistics issued by the Department show clearly that there has been an increase in forestry licence...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The ‘Land Availability for Afforestation’ document reported that there were 178,823 hectares of unenclosed land that were not farmed and technically suitable for forestry development. A decision was made by the Department to restrict the planting of unenclosed land in December 2010, to no more than 20% of any one application. Unenclosed land is, in general, less fertile and more...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (8 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: In May 2019, the then Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine decided to establish the CAP Consultative Committee in order to facilitate stakeholder engagement in the CAP reform process, by keeping them updated as the reform discussions progressed and by facilitating a regular exchange of views on the issues arising. Committee Membership was drawn from a broad range of invited...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: A decision was made by the Department to restrict the planting of unenclosed land in December 2010, to no more than 20% of any one application. It is the case therefore that this rule has the effect of reducing the proportion and total hectarage of planting on unenclosed land. However, enclosed land is, in general, less fertile and more exposed than enclosed land and trees planted on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The eligibility criteria for the Results-based Environment-Agri Pilot (REAP) Project stated that anyone who had ever been approved into GLAS would not be eligible to participate in the project. This was published in the terms and conditions of the project full details of which are available on my Department's website. As a result, the person named was ineligible for the scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry (8 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: Aquaculture licences are granted subject to the provisions of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1997, the 1993 Foreshore Act and applicable EU legislation. Section 69 - (2) of the 1997 Fisheries Amendment Act provides for: - Revocation of an aquaculture licence in circumstances where aquaculture at a site has ceased for a continuous period of 2 years. - Consideration of factors in relation...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan (8 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: While the agriculture sector needs to make a significant contribution to abating emissions of methane and nitrous oxide, two greenhouse gases associated with livestock based agriculture, it is also clear that we must acknowledge the role of removals within the landscape and the important role farmers can play in terms of enhancing these removals. While accounting for these removals is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pigmeat Sector (8 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The continued development of the pigmeat sector is a priority for me, given the pivotal role the industry plays in the national economic context. It is the fourth largest agri-food sector accounting for 6.3% of the total agri-food output. The sector supports approximately 8,000 jobs spanning production, slaughter, processing, feed manufacture and services and has played a key role in meeting...