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- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: I mean including, not plus.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: Yes. In the overall scheme, the commitment is €300 million. If one looks at other schemes that have wound down, for example, REPS 4, we are still paying some money out under it because of the delay in applications and some hang-over issues, even though the scheme is closed and has been gone for quite a while. There are still some delays. The commitment, which is absolute, is that...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: May I interrupt?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: I may have added to the confusion, but not deliberately. We need to get some things clear. The €300 million is the budget line commitment, which we are committed to ensuring over the lifetime of the rural development programme will be available under the beef data and genomics programme. It is the case - in fact a detailed analysis of the Estimates today will show that in other...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: Yes.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: We will obtain a note on that matter.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: My understanding on the latter point is that it has to do with self-classification. Somebody might depart from farming and then gets an off-farm job. He or she might term himself or herself as an employee but might still be farming on a part-time basis. The number in this regard fluctuates.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: The classification is an issue, as I understand it, with the CSO survey. It is not an issue for my Department. Our understanding is that people move between off-farm employment and part-time work on the farm. It is a self-declaration process. In respect of the aquaculture licence, my understanding is that of the 90 bays involved, some 509 appropriate assessments for licences have been...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: They have been done for more than half.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: More than half. We can get the Deputy a detailed briefing on them.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: They are done on the basis of the total number of licences for each bay. We have carried out 509 assessments and there are 328 remaining to be done. I will obtain a more detailed briefing note for Deputy Pringle.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: I do not have the information with me, but I will get it for the Deputy.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: I will come back to the Deputy with a more detailed note. I think it was Deputy D'Arcy who raised the issue of TAMS, which I know will be of interest to members. We faced choices in the Department. We could have slowed down the roll-out of individual programmes. We went with the maximum possible roll-out at the earliest possible date. We are struggling to put in place the appropriate...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: I am responding to the questions that were asked.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: A new charter of farmers' rights was negotiated and came into effect in 2015 following consultation with the various farm organisations. A monitoring committee, under the chairmanship of Dr. Seán Brady, is charged with the ongoing review of the charter. The committee is supposed to meet four times each year. We aspire to meet but we do not always do so. The staff in the Department...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: We can do that. The data are available in respect of the subhead for additional staff. Provision is made for 200 staff in terms of critical areas where we see-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: No. Some of it would relate to IT systems. The lack of appropriate IT systems would have been one of the issues that delayed the TAM scheme. We did not have the IT systems necessary to deal with the complexity of that scheme. We are rebuilding some of the capacity dismantled during a period when resources were scarce.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: I will forward a detailed note on that issue to members.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: The focus of programme B is to promote and enhance the already high standards of food safety, consumer protection, animal health and welfare and plant health. A total allocation of €218 million has been made under this programme for 2016. The programme represents the country's key defences against animal and plant disease threats through the implementation of food and feed safety...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) Michael Creed: I will deal with the last point first, if I may. I acknowledge that there is a specific issue in Wicklow. In fact, the incidence of TB in Wicklow to date this year is 5.67% which is well ahead of the national average of 2.73%. I note the point Deputy Cahill made in respect of the possible contribution of deer to that increase in TB incidence. There is a non-statutory Irish deer management...