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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Possibly. I hope we do find something. If we had a vaccine, it would have a significant role to play. In the meantime, we need to double back through the TB stakeholder forum. I have been engaging with the various members of the forum, as well as the farming organisations. We all need, through that forum, to look at the full suite of issues that are affecting the increase in TB levels...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: We were utilising the remainder of the European Union recovery instrument, EURI, funding which is a specific stream of funding and it was 100% refundable. As the organic scheme is a continuation from the previous rural development programme, rather than being a new CAP scheme, it was one of the few schemes which was actually eligible for drawing down EURI funding. We redirected that in...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: This radically changed the assessment process, overnight, for forestry licensing and meant that a very significant increase in human resources was required to be able to consider a licence. It led to the development of a very significant backlog, which took until the last year for us to be able to rectify. Unfortunately, ACRES has proven to be much more complex than many of the other...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: What the Deputy described happening in France is pretty much what I have done here.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: That is the assessment of the productivity of a cow. It is separate from its carcase weight.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (6 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 110 and 111 together. My Department is the Competent Authority in Ireland with responsibility for pesticides (plant protection products and biocides). This includes responsibility for policy and implementation of controls regarding the placing on the market and use of pesticides, including Regulation (EC) No. 1107/2009. Pesticides are regulated under EU...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (6 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Market volatility arises from a variety of factors, including geo-political and weather events. In the agriculture sector, we have just been through a period of higher input costs and falling output prices, exacerbated by challenging weather conditions. However, the outlook is now more positive, as input costs have fallen by 7% in the year to the end of August, with output prices up by 18% in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Capital Expenditure Programme (6 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Scheme provides grants to farmers to build and/or improve a specified range of farm buildings and equipment on their holdings. To date, 830 farmers in counties Louth and Meath have received €12,924,791.84 in grant aid since 2020, with payments continuing to issue on a weekly basis. As the Herd number identifies holdings at a county level it...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (6 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The implementation of the Bovine TB Eradication Strategy 2021-2030 is overseen by the Bovine TB Stakeholders Forum along with support from three working groups – a Scientific group, an Implementation Working Group and a Finance Group to ensure all aspects of the Strategy are addressed. The Bovine TB Stakeholders Forum and its working groups comprise representatives from across the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Licences (5 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Equine application for `the stated individual has been processed, and a letter issued on the 29th of October. The delay was caused due to certain required information being missing from the application form.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (5 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The BISS application for the herd owner referred to by the Deputy was submitted by his FAS Advisor on 10 May 2024. During BISS Preliminary checks, a dual claim was identified and notified to the herd owner on 4 June 2024. A response was received on 17 June 2024 stating the applicant had the right to claim the land parcels concerned. As a result, my Department issued a dual claim letter on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (5 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: In December 2018, a transition period to a ban on vessels over 18 metres trawling in inshore waters, inside the six nautical mile zone was announced. A significant part of the objective of this measure was to manage the fishing effort on sprat stocks which are primarily targeted within inshore waters. This measure, however, was the subject of extended legal proceedings the outcome of which,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Areas of Conservation (5 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The majority of the marine Natura 2000 sites in Ireland (Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas) are inshore, within six nautical miles. I can inform the Deputy that a series of appropriate assessments and risk assessments have been undertaken by my Department in conjunction with the Marine Institute over the years with regard to sea-fishing activities in or near Natura...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Meetings (5 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department met with the Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland (SEAI) on two occasions in early 2019 prior to the inclusion, on 6 April 2019, of grant aid for solar panel investment in the Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Scheme (TAMS II). These meetings were attended by TAMS Agricultural Inspectors. The meetings focused on the proposed TAMS Solar PV Scheme and the Solar electricity...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (5 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Coillte is established by law to operate independently of my department. Its Board comprises a chair and seven members, with a collective responsibility to lead and direct the organisation as appropriate, and an individual fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of the company. I am satisfied that Coillte is performing its commercial functions effectively and it has returned a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (5 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Sheep Improvement Scheme is funded under Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan. It provides support to sheep farmers for carrying out actions that improve animal health and welfare in the sheep sector. It builds on the progress made by the Sheep Welfare Scheme (SWS), which ended in 2022. As per the Terms and Conditions of the Sheep Improvement Scheme, participants classed as a lowland...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (5 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The person named submitted three applications in July under tranche 4 of the Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme of TAMS 3, which closed for applications on 6 September 2024. All applications in a given tranche must undergo an initial assessment before a more detailed technical check is carried out in the local office prior to approval issuing to eligible applicants. It is a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (5 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department is committed to ensuring that a skilled and motivated workforce is in place to meet its priority business needs. Workforce planning processes are utilised to identify our requirements across all our grade streams and locations, aiming to ensure a long-term, proactive and strategic plan by which current and future staffing needs are addressed. As business needs arise, staff...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (5 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I am aware that as of the 22 July 2024 the Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Act 2024 of the United Kingdom has banned the export of cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and horses for fattening and slaughter from Great Britain. The ban does not prevent the export of livestock and horses for breeding or competitions, and it does not apply in Northern Ireland. The ban applies to journeys from, and...