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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The sale and the export of horses is a private commercial activity. The data that the deputy seeks is not a matter that falls within the scope of my Department. The export of animals is highly regulated by both European and Irish legislation with regard their health, welfare and welfare during transport and subject to control and certification by Department veterinary staff. Whilst I am...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The export of animals is regulated by both European and Irish legislation. The Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine facilitates the lawful export of horses, while ensuring that their transport is carried out in compliance with legislative welfare standards. To be exported from Ireland to China, horses must be clinically examined by a vet and go through repeated health tests and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The table below outlines the numbers of horses exported from Ireland to China, Hong Kong and South Korea by year. - 2024 to date 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 China 0 72 75 0 0 21 9 64 Hong Kong 0 5 3 4 ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The information the Deputy has requested in the relation to the age profile of thoroughbred horses slaughtered at facilities approved by my Department in 2023 is detailed in the table below. Thoroughbreds sent to slaughter in 2023 Age Category M = Months Number of Thoroughbreds 0 – 6 M 0 6 – 12 M 0 ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Afforestation applications received by my Department are reviewed for completeness to ensure they are a valid application which can be progressed to licence decision stage. The licensing process involves careful assessment of applications from a silvicultural, environmental and scheme compliance perspective. My Department publishes weekly statistics of all licences issued on our weekly...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Eco-schemes were introduced for the first time in early 2023 and to date my Department has issued Eco-Scheme payments to over 116,000 farmers since advance payments commenced on 31 October 2023. This represents the vast majority of farmers who are expected to receive the payment. The total amount issued in Eco-Scheme payments to date is €298,336,621. Eco-scheme payments are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The person named submitted an application to my Department under the 2023 Complementary Income Support for Young Farmers. Processing of this application is ongoing as there are some remaining eligibility and verification checks to be carried out. A member of staff of my Department will be in direct contact with the person named where there is further information required regarding the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The application for the herd number you provided was submitted using a Temporary Reference Number. Applications made under Temporary Reference Numbers are currently being integrated into the Eco-Scheme IT system and are undergoing processing and validation checks. Once cleared for payment, this herd number will receive their Eco-scheme payment.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (27 Feb 2024)

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: Horse Racing Industry (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) is a commercial state body established under the Horse and Greyhound Racing Act, 2001, and is responsible for the overall administration, promotion and development of the horse racing industry. The question raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for HRI, therefore, the question has been referred to the body for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Data Centres (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department is obligated to maintain the highest security, and operational, standards to protect citizen’s data and access to services. In this context, the Department has been advised by the National Cyber Security Centre not to disclose details which could, in any way, identify or help target potential vulnerabilities in Departmental Cybersecurity arrangements.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (28 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: On 23 November, my Department advised the farmer in question that a Porcine number does not meet the definition of a herd number, therefore we are unable to link a porcine number to a BISS application. In submitting a BISS 2023 application you declare you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions of the Basic Income Support for Sustainability Scheme. As per the Terms and Conditions to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (28 Feb 2024)

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. In 2018, conditional consent was granted for redevelopment works...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Turf Cutting (28 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The objective of the €1.5 billion ACRES scheme is to improve environmental performance on farmland, including commonage. In this context, my Department is obliged to ensure that the scheme meets its objectives, but also to ensure that applicants are treated fairly when it comes to scoring of environmental performance. The original proposal in relation to the scoring of turbary...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (28 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The table below provides data, extracted from the AIM system, on the breakdown by county of herds with dairy cows and herds with suckler cows. A suckler cow is defined for this purpose as a female bovine who is named as the dam of at least one registered calf and is of a recognised beef breed. County Number of Herds with dairy cows Number of Herds with suckler...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (28 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: An application for participation in the 2023 Basic Income Support for Sustainability Scheme (BISS), Complementary Redistributive Support for Sustainability (CRISS), Areas of Natural Constraints (ANC) and ECO schemes was received from the above named applicant on the 4th April, 2023. Following a review of parcels by Satellite Imagery parcels within this application were identified as...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (28 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: In respect of the animals removed from the named herd under the On Farm Market Valuation Scheme, all animals received their full market value, taking into account both the factory salvage recovered and compensation paid on each animal by my Department. As the herd lost more than 10% of its animals the named herdowner also qualified for payment under the Income Supplement Scheme. The herd...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I can confirm that the person named was approved into Tranche 1 of the Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) Co-operation Project Stream, with a contract commencement date of 1 January 2023. As the deputy is aware, I made a decision to issue an interim, nationally funded payment, to farmers affected by ACRES payment delays across ACRES General and Co-operation, at a rate of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department acts as a Paying Agency for a number of EU funds; the vast majority of these funds are programmed in multi annual cycles such as the CAP Strategic Plan and the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) Programme. The CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027 has a budget of €9.8 billion, with €5.97 billion in Pillar 1 for Direct Payments coming from the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I have long supported the cohort of farmers known as the forgotten farmers and have committed to supporting them. My Department developed a preliminary outline of a proposal to provide support to the forgotten farmer group. Work continues on addressing a number of issues, such as the funding required, consistency with public expenditure and state aid considerations before the details...