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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: I thank the Deputy very much and wish him well in his term. It is great to have him on the committee. To say it clearly yet again, the CAP has served us very well. I think it is understandable for eastern European countries to want to have a focus on defence. The Deputy spoke about rearming as a very negative thing. There is a war-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: I can understand why people who have Vladimir Putin as their neighbour would be concerned about their safety. These are fellow European countries, so I understand their concern. I-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: No, there is not. I do not accept the Deputy's underlying premise. He threw in a comment around GAEC 2 there as well. I am just making the point that European - and I will answer the specific point made by the Deputy - food security is not about every individual country producing all the food themselves. That is not food security. We are the second-most food secure nation in the world....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: Regarding the point about contingency measures and the work we are doing in this regard, I am not giving up. There is an element of throwing in the towel in some of what the Deputy is saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: I take great heart when I look at a country like Poland, which is on the flank of Russia and facing such major problems. That country's minister for agriculture is, like us, strongly advocating for the need for a fully-funded CAP with the old structure. I am not, therefore, giving up on that and I am continuing to fight very hard. I work with-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: I am sorry, but I will not be able to come back. I was supposed to have been here until 6 p.m. I do not mind finishing, but I cannot come back I am afraid. I should have been gone 15 minutes ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: Let us just not miss the vote.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: Yes, I will provide a written response to that question. It is probably the best approach because we are out of time.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maritime Safety (27 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: The responsibility for the development and maintenance of local authority owned piers, harbours and slipways rests with each local authority in the first instance. As such, Scraggane Pier, Knightstown, Kilmacalogue Pier and Tuosist Pier are the under the remit of Kerry County Council. The primary governance role for local authorities rests with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (27 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: The person named submitted an application under the ACRES Co-operation stream and was approved into Tranche 2 of the scheme, with a commencement date of 1st January 2024. To date this case has not passed all the required 2024 advance payment validations due to an unresolved issue on the commonage claim. The case is being worked on and I expect this issue to be resolved in the coming weeks....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Procurement Contracts (27 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: My Department utilises framework-based procurement when carrying out purchasing for the Department, these are included in the reporting of annual accounts. My Department has not established and does not operate any framework in its own right. My Department only uses frameworks made available through the Office of Government Procurement Buyers Zone and the Education Procurement System. ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Procurement Contracts (27 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: The information requested is not readily available in the format sought by the Deputy. A response providing the requested information will be issued to the Deputy within 10 days. As regards the 13 State Bodies under the aegis of my Department, the information requested is an operational matter for the State Bodies themselves. I have referred the Deputy’s question to the Agencies...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Procurement Contracts (27 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: While not all Contract Award Notices valued over €25,000 ex-VAT were published for contracts awarded from frameworks by the Department from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2024, the details of all such contracts awarded are however published on a quarterly basis on the Department’s website, linked below: /www.gov.ie/en/collection/02cb8-contracts-awarded-2020/ As regards the 13...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Services (27 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: My Department does not regulate the cost of veterinary medicines, my responsibility is with regard to ensuring authorised medicines are available and used correctly. All authorised veterinary medicines are required to go through a rigorous and costly process of quality safety and efficacy assessments prior to becoming available to treat and protect the health and welfare of our animals. ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (27 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: The person named submitted an application for the ACRES Co-operation approach and was approved into Tranche 1 of the Scheme, with their contract commencing on 1 January 2023. The contract has not yet passed all the pre-payment validations required for the making of the 2024 advance payment, due to an unresolved issue in relation to the commonage element. I understand that this issue is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (27 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: The person named submitted an application under the ACRES Co-operation stream and was approved into Tranche 1 of the scheme, with a commencement date of 1st January 2023. An interim payment of €5,000 issued to the person named in February 2024 in respect of the 2023 scheme year. Further processing resulted in this applicant failing to pass all payment checks. My Department has...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (27 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 505, 506 and 508 together. Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) , Ireland's seafood development agency, already holds the remit for both delivering and promoting third level education in the fisheries sector, as such there is no requirement to designate a state agency for the purpose of promoting such courses. BIM’s statutory remit focuses on industry...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (27 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: My Department supports the provision of essential training and skills development for those working, or intending to work, in the Irish commercial seafood sector in a number of ways. My Department funds two National Fisheries Colleges of Ireland operated by our national seafood development agency Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), in addition to a range of other training and development supports...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (27 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: The table at the link below sets out the total number of reactors per individual month for January, February and March in 2025 and 2024 respectively. Bovine Tuberculosis (bTb) is a challenging disease to control and eradicate, and I am committed to making real progress. I am acutely aware of farmers emotional and financial trauma associated with this disease. As the spread of this...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Budgets (27 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: The level of funding allocated by my Department to Social Farming through the Rural Innovation and Development Fund in years 2024 and 2025 is set out in the table below: Year Network project Model projects Total 2024 €400,000 €376,734 €776,734 2025 €900,000 ...