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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (24 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: In December 2018, following a public consultation process in which over 900 submissions were received, the then Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine announced that vessels over 18m will 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 was allowed to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (24 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: As this Parliamentary Question relates to issues surrounding a former employee of this Department, it is not appropriate for me, as Minister, to comment on this situation.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (24 Nov 2020)

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

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (24 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: The information requested relating to the value of a Single Farm Payment made to the lessee of the land is the personal information of the lessee and therefore, cannot be disclosed to the lessor.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (24 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: Payment entitlements under the Single Payment Scheme, were established by farmers that farmed during the reference years of 2000, 2001 and 2002, in accordance with the European Commission Regulation (EC) 1782/2003. These payment entitlements were not attached to land. Ireland consolidated payment entitlements in accordance with Article 42(5) of Regulation (EC) 1782/2003 and Article 7 of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Fund Regulations 2020: Motion (24 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Chairman and congratulate his county on its tremendous win at the weekend. It gives joy to the rest of the country to see a county win a provincial championship for the first time in 85 years. It is good to be here with the committee members today. An important pillar of Government policy is to ensure that the horse and greyhound racing industries achieve their maximum...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Fund Regulations 2020: Motion (24 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Senator Boyhan for his comments on and overview of the issues we are discussing today and the rationale for and the value of the funding. I assure the Senator that a process will be gone through to assess candidates for the HRI board. It is an open application process and recommendations will come to me with the qualifications of the people who have come through the process. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Fund Regulations 2020: Motion (24 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputies Carthy and Martin Browne for their comments. Deputy Carthy has indicated he very much supports the sectors but he has questions. I am not quite clear-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Fund Regulations 2020: Motion (24 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: I am not quite clear as to his overall view of the funding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Fund Regulations 2020: Motion (24 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: In the horse racing sector, the allocation from the State is €76 million from the horse and greyhound racing fund. The horse racing sector contributes €1.84 billion to the economy with 28,500 people employed by it. Up to 13,000 people derive an economic benefit from the greyhound sector. There is ongoing engagement every year between the Department, as the main shareholder,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Fund Regulations 2020: Motion (24 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: I will answer Deputy Michael Collins's questions first. He made the point about the value of the investment in terms of what it does in rural areas and in terms of the importance of welfare. He also made the significant point about the importance of the money being spread across all levels of both the greyhound and horse racing sectors. I agree with the Deputy that it is important that all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Fund Regulations 2020: Motion (24 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: I will come back to the Senator on the operation of the database as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Fund Regulations 2020: Motion (24 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Senators. Senator Paul Daly noted the importance of the smaller tracks and breeders and the pressure they are under this year as a result of Covid. I agree with him and it is important that they be supported both by RCÉ and Horse Racing Ireland. I will relay his feedback, which concurs with my own, to those organisations. He made a valid point about the necessity of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Fund Regulations 2020: Motion (24 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: I note the opposition of Deputy Cairns to the increase in funding for the greyhound sector. She did not express opposition to the funding increase for the horse racing sector and confined her opposition to the greyhound sector. She asked why we are providing extra funding and made the point that instead we should be reducing it and withdrawing it. The rationale for funding of the greyhound...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recall of Sanitiser Products: Discussion (24 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: I welcome this opportunity to update the committee on the recall issued by the Department for Virapro sanitiser products. I will briefly recount the specific issue that arose with ViraPro. In the first instance, the European Anti-Fraud Office, OLAF, notified the Revenue Commissioners regarding the import of a hand sanitiser product from Turkey to Ireland, from the same supplier of a product...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recall of Sanitiser Products: Discussion (24 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the members for their questions and comments. First, on Deputy Carthy's questions around the dates, the preliminary results were received on 6 October rather than 8 October, but the other dates are the same. I would emphasise that the test results concerned confiscated consignments which had been confiscated at the outset and remained so throughout. The Department issued a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recall of Sanitiser Products: Discussion (24 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: First, in response to Deputy Browne on the testing, we are testing on a weekly basis a product that is on the market to verify the product will be there and also to ensure that there is confidence that it does what is stated on the label and what it is registered to do. As I say, there have been 75 of those done in the past couple of months. There has been no issue arising from a public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recall of Sanitiser Products: Discussion (24 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: Several tests were carried out on many samples of the product. The methanol level was generally between 4% and 10% but some levels were much higher. I will come back to the Deputy with detail on that. That product was all confiscated. Following this, the Department and the HSE have engaged with the company on product that had previously been received. Deputy Fitzmaurice also mentioned...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recall of Sanitiser Products: Discussion (24 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy referred to temporary pesticide control service, PCS, numbers. The PCS numbers that were issued were not temporary. All Departments have been impacted by the need to work from home in recent times, but the process by which licences and PCS numbers are issued must still be followed. Regarding increasing throughput, as I outlined earlier the significant majority of the 457 PCS...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Properties (19 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department owns, operates and maintains six designated State-owned Fishery Harbour Centres (FHCs), located at Castletownbere, Dingle, Dunmore East, Howth, Killybegs and Ros An Mhíl under statute.  My Department became responsible for the Fishery Harbour Centres in October 2007.  Please note that Dingle was designated as a Fishery Harbour Centre in May 2007. The FHCs contain...