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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (8 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 188. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding provided by his Department to provide financial credit to farmers; the title of the financial product; the purpose of the financial product; if such funding was recycled by issuing institutions or returned to his Department in each of the years 2016 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...

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

Matt Carthy: 189. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has given consideration to including measures related to hedgerows as an element of the proposed non-productive areas and landscapes eco scheme; the proposed measures; the proposed measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60707/21]

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

Matt Carthy: 190. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has given consideration to including measures related to hedgerows as an element of AECM; the proposed measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60708/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (8 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 195. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding allocated to the LEADER programme; the amount that was provided through Pillar 2 of the Common Agricultural Policy; the amount provided from Exchequer funds in each of the years 2007 to 2021 inclusive; the anticipated corresponding figures for 2022 to 2027 inclusive in tabular form; and if she will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Food Industry (9 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 1. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will introduce legislation to establish an enforcement authority as per the unfair trading practices Directive; if the legislation will provide for a meat regulator; and the powers that will be within the remit of the authority.. [60436/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Food Industry (9 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: When does the Minister intend to bring forward the long-promised legislation to create an enforcement authority, a food ombudsman or a meat regulator, as I would prefer, as per the unfair trading practices directive? Does he have a sense of the powers he intends to confer on that authority?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Food Industry (9 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: The unfair trading practices legislation and the issue we referred to has been listed in the legislative agenda of the autumn, the spring, the summer and the autumn again, but it does not seem to have been prioritised to the same extent as other legislation that was announced much later but delivered much sooner. In May, in response to a question, the Minister told us the legislation would...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Food Industry (9 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: It would be useful if the Minister could elaborate on the work that enforcement authority is doing. In May, the unit had three full-time equivalent posts, filled by four staff. Progress was being made on appointing a head of unit but by September and through October, it had only two full-time equivalent staff, again with the promise of a head of unit. It has not received, as far as I am...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Industry (9 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 3. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to provide for an audit of the carbon storage and capture of each farm in the State in order to allow farmers to be rewarded for good practice and improvements into the future. [60437/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Industry (9 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: There has been much talk about the role of agriculture in respect of our climate action targets. The most common question farmers ask is what this will mean for them. It would be useful if it were possible to carry out a full audit of the carbon storage and capture that is taking place on every farm in order to reward farmers who are involved in good practices and to encourage others to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Industry (9 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: The Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine held a number of informative hearings on these issues because it is an area in which we all will admit that we are still learning. I asked this specific question regarding the baseline studies as to whether it is possible to carry out a farm-by-farm analysis and audit so each farmer would have a clear view of what sequestration, storage...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Industry (9 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: One of the great travesties of Irish farming, particularly when we are talking about climate action, is that those farms which are richest in biodiversity, which are doing most on carbon sequestration and which are causing least pollution are also the least profitable farms in the State. We need to ensure we do not repeat our mistakes. I have lost count of the number of people who have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (9 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: In the climate action plan, the target for sequestration from forestry post 2030 is 2.1 megatonnes of CO2 equivalent per year, but that is premised on the assumption that we will plant 8,000 ha of new forestry each year. There is not a hope that we will reach that goal. The Minister of State asked why farmers who have licences are not planting. She has asked that question three times that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Exports Growth (9 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: I commend Deputy Richmond for asking this question. On his final point, I agree we did not utilise the EU market outside Britain sufficiently. There is scope for growth in the EU market. This must be based on a premiumisation model whereby we compete based on the quality and sustainability of our food rather than on price or the quantity exported. We cannot win a race to the bottom but we...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: In November 2019, the Government signed the contract for the national broadband plan, despite several warnings that it was a bad deal for the taxpayer. Indeed, the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform warned that the consortium could recoup all of its money by 2028 and then sell up shop. Nevertheless, the taxpayer agreed to fork out €2.7 billion for a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: What about the investors sucking out the money?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: So do I. What about the investors sucking out the money?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: The Tánaiste signed the contract.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: Can I ask a supplementary question?

Seafood Taskforce Final Report: Statements (9 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: I am not from a fishing community. I do not understand the complexities of the fishing sector and have never made any pretence that I do. However, I have been listening and all of us in this House need to listen to what is becoming an endangered species, the Irish fisherman. It is one of the travesties of an island nation that we do not have a world-class fishing fleet and world-class...