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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of 1 October 2015 and has received a first payment instalment in respect of the 2015 scheme year.  During the 2015 balancing prepayment checking process an issue presented on the computerised crosscheck.  Department officials have resolved this issue and the application will now be further processed for the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named commenced their AEOS 2 contract on 1st September 2011. Payment issued in respect of the 2011-2015 Scheme years. Under the EU Regulations governing the Scheme and other area-based payment schemes, a comprehensive administrative check, including cross-checks with the Land Parcel Identification System must take place before payments can be made. As 2016 is the final...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Transfer of Entitlements (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The first named person submitted two 2016 Transfer of Entitlements applications to my Department seeking the transfer of entitlements by inheritance as a transferee and seeking the transfer of entitlements by lease as a transferor to the second named person. An official from my Department has been in contact with the second named person to discuss the process involved in having both...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Agreements (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: Following a long-lasting WTO dispute with the US and with Canada on the EU ban on growth-promoting hormones in beef production, the EU signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United States in 2009 and with Canada in 2011.  On 22 December 2016, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) issued a notice of public hearing and request for comments regarding...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Anti-dumping Measures (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: Statistical analysis has shown that fertiliser is a significant expenditure item on EU farms, accounting for €19.2bn in 2014 (Eurostat), while the imposition of anti-dumping duties and customs tariffs on fertilisers is costing farmers up to €1 billion per annum (International Food and Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)). I have long believed that the elimination of fertiliser...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Subsidies (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: It is expected that the UK's exit from the EU will reduce the overall EU budget by between 5 and 10%.  This will undoubtedly have implications for future spending decisions in what is already a very tight budgetary framework. Notwithstanding this, the amount of CAP funding per Member State is fixed until 2020 under Regulations of the Council and European...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named has been paid in full for 2015 and 85% of his 2016 payment issued in December 2016.  The balancing 15% will issue in the second quarter of 2017.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named commenced their AEOS 2 contract on 1st September 2011. Payment issued in respect of the 2011-2015 Scheme years. Under the EU Regulations governing the Scheme and other area-based payment schemes, a comprehensive administrative check, including cross-checks with the Land Parcel Identification System must take place before payments can issue. As 2016 is the final scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural Colleges Courses (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The Green Cert is delivered on a full-time, part-time and distance education basis by Teagasc education staff. Teagasc has enrolled over 4,500 learners to its Green Cert programme in the years 2014 to 2016. I understand that Teagasc would hope to offer up to 1,000 Green Cert places in 2017. A request for 15 new temporary teaching posts was recently approved by my Department to assist...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of the 1 October 2015. The first payment due to the person named is in respect of the 2016 scheme year. During the prepayment checks in respect of 2016 an issue was identified in relation to the Protection of Watercourses from Bovines action. Department officials are actively working to resolve this issue with a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: I propose to take Questions Nos. 520 and 521 together. My Department is advised by the Marine Institute that hydrogen peroxide, as a fish disease treatment agent, readily breaks down through water and oxygen and as such represents an extremely low environmental concern. The Marine Institute has also advised that hydrogen peroxide treatments have a more favourable outcome when they are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licence Eligibility (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: Section 13 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1997 sets down timeframes within which the Minister shall endeavour to determine an application for an aquaculture licence. However, in the absence of a commencement order, there is no statutory timeframe in force for the determination of applications for aquaculture licences under the Act. The commencement of Section 13 of the Fisheries...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: Article 32 of EU Regulation 1305/2013 requires all member states to implement a new system for designating eligible areas under the Areas of Natural Constraints (ANC) scheme from 2018 at the latest. At present, eligible land under the scheme is designated by reference to criteria such as stocking density, family farm income, population density and the percentage of the working population...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: To date, some 29,700 farmers have been paid a total of €106m under GLAS. GLAS payment has issued to over 80% of scheme participants entitled to a payment in the 2016 scheme year. Payments continue to be processed on an ongoing basis and will issue on a weekly basis as the remaining 7,236 cases are cleared for payment.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commonage Land Use (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: Commonage farmers who wished to join GLAS, which is Pillar 2 scheme under the 2014 – 2020 Rural Development Programme, received priority access into the scheme and for their commonage lands they receive a payment rate of €120 per hectare. The payment rate is based on the significant agri-environment benefits that arise from appropriate management of commonage lands which...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commonage Land Use (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: Commonage farmers who wished to join GLAS, which is Pillar 2 scheme under the 2014 – 2020 Rural Development Programme, received priority access into the scheme and for their commonage lands they receive a payment rate of €120 per hectare. The payment rate is based on the significant agri-environment benefits that arise from appropriate management of commonage lands which...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fire Safety (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: I am very aware of the damage that uncontrolled fires can do to private land and the risk they pose to private property. There is also the risk to the health and safety of staff from the fire services and other volunteers when they attempt to bring the fires under control. As a result of significant fire damage to forestry plantations some years ago, the Forest Service of my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Invasive Plant Species (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The eradication of Japanese Knotweed is not an action under the GLAS scheme. Where the GLAS advisor prepares a Sustainable Management Plan (SMP) for designated Special Areas of Conservation or Special Protection Areas and that plan includes the management of Japanese Knotweed to protect the integrity of the site, the SMP must be complied with.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named commenced their AEOS 2 contract on 1st September 2011. Payment issued in respect of the 2011-2015 Scheme years. Under the EU Regulations governing the Scheme and other area-based payment schemes, a comprehensive administrative check, including cross-checks with the Land Parcel Identification System must take place before payments can issue. As 2016 is the final scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: It is intended to commence the Forestry Act, 2014, and bring into effect the related regulations before Easter 2017. The forestry regulations are complete and will be signed at the same time as the Commencement Order for the Act.