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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (17 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: A dealer is classified as a natural or legal person who buys and sells animals commercially, either directly or indirectly, who has regular turnover of these animals and who within a maximum of 30 days of buying animals, resells them or relocates them, from the first premises to other premises, not within his or her ownership. “Regular turnover” means the buying and reselling...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Measures (17 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: Policy and Legislative responsibility for Dog control transferred to my Department from the Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht on 1 June 2025 and for Dog breeding establishments (DBE) on 1 August 2025. Local authorities retain responsibility for all operational, implementation and enforcement matters. A high-level stakeholder group was established in 2024 to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ports Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: Currently, Cork Port is a designated border control post for container shipments of wood and wood products. Inspections of these products take place at the Tivoli Container Terminal near Cork City. However, it should be noted that the physical infrastructure required for handling bulk wood products and that required for handling food products, are very different. Between 2015 and 2018, a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: I wish to inform the Deputy that the Agriculture Appeals Office operates independently of my Department.  I have been informed that the Agriculture Appeals Office received an appeal from the person-named on 22nd April 2025. A statement on the grounds of appeal and the related documents were sent from my Department to the Appeals Office on the 25thJune 2025.  Following the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: The Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Scheme (TAMS 3) currently provides grant aid for investment in new structures rather than repair of existing structures.  Where buildings have been significantly damaged it may be more economic to replace the entire structure, rather than attempting to repair the damaged building.  In such cases, it is open to farmers to apply for support...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: Between the 1 January to 22 August 2025 the number of cattle slaughtered within 20 days of being presented at a mart (whether sold or unsold) was 110,734, the number of cattle slaughtered within 30 days of being presented was 128,031. This data was extracted from my Department's Animal Identification and Movement (AIM) database on 23 August 2025.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: The information requested is not readily available and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: 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...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Training Provision (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: My Department has no role in the provision of Green Cert courses at Teagasc, Grange. As this is properly an operational matter for Teagasc,  I have asked Teagasc to directly provide the Deputy with the requested information.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Training Provision (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: My Department has no role in the provision of Green Cert courses in the Meath area. As this is properly an operational matter for Teagasc,  I have asked Teagasc to directly provide the Deputy with the requested information.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Projects (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: The taking in charge of embankments for these purposes does not fall within my statutory functions or powers.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Projects (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: The taking in charge of embankments for these purposes does not fall within my statutory functions or powers.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Properties (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: It is the policy of my department to wind up all trust properties for which I have responsibility and under the Land Act 2005 I have the power to transfer these properties back to local sports clubs and groups representative of local communities.  The Lands Branch of my department, located in Government Buildings, Farnham Street, Cavan can be contacted at 049 4368200 or email...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: The application window for the scheme to support Long Established Young Farmers has closed and there are no plans to extend the eligibility criteria. Since the time my Department was first approached in 2015 with regard to the group commonly referred to as forgotten farmers, the group was defined as young farmers who were under the age of 40 in 2015, had established their holdings prior...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: Details of CAP payments to beneficiaries are available from the CAP beneficiaries database published by my Department at . Details of the agencies under the Department's remit are summarised in the attached file. Beneficiary Name  County/Municipality  Total Bord Bia Dublin 5,700,700.64 Irish National...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: An application for the Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS) was submitted on May 15th 2025 for the Reps. Of William Dowling. The Inheritance Enquiry Unit within the Direct Payment Division of the Department have received the required documentation from the late Mr Dowling's representatives, to allow payments to issue to the estate. Overall processing of 2025 Basic Income Support...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: The person named submitted an application under the Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) General stream and was approved into Tranche 2 of the scheme, with a commencement date of 1st January 2024. Payments are now up to date for this herd.  Full payment in respect of scheme year 2024 issued on 28 August 2025, in the sum of €7,311.00. Payments in respect of scheme year...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: My Department has examined the herdowner’s files. The final paperwork for a previous On Farm Market Value (OFMV) payment was received on 25th July 2025 and payment issued to his nominated bank account on 14th August 2025. The Herdowner’s Regional Veterinary Office contacted him on 22nd August 2025 to outline the documentation required to expedite a further OFMV payment...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: A procedure has been put in place whereby a formal review of commonage scores may be sought by participants in the Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) if they so wish. Details of this process are outlined in the ‘Review of ACRES commonage scores – January 2025’ document available on my Department's website at gov.ie - Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Heydon: If the Deputy wishes to specify in more detail the background to the issue he refers to, in relation to labelling legislation under EU Regulation 1169/2011, I will provide the Deputy with a more detailed response to his request.