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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: We have asked for the breakdown several times but have not got it.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: Is that net recruitment? How much of that is replacement?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes, but how many people have retired or left the system in the same period? What I am trying to get at here is-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: Of course it has to be done as efficiently as possible and we have to ensure all the bases are covered. The point I make, and which I have made on several occasions before, is in the way the Minister and the Government indicated the way it was going to happen. In the front page headlines the day after the Cabinet meeting in Derrynane last year, the Minister told the whole country not to...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: -----and that the Government's own plans were to recruit 1,000 new recruits, 700 of whom were to be Revenue and 300 of whom were to be with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. That was in July but all of a sudden in September, the Minister was a bit more low key when he announced that actually the Government was going to change its mind and that the figure was going to be...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: Headlines and figures were put out there but the Minister did not follow through on it and now he tells us that he is doing it very differently and using different means, be it deployment or other, and a small bit of recruitment.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: It is not about inserting doubt. I am simply holding the Minister to account for what he and his Government had outlined. If he looks back at it the Minister will find that it was very much presented in the context of 29 March and being ready for that.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: It left it at 100%.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: May I make a brief point?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: On Deputy Pringle's point, is it possible to have further documentation over the coming days just for information showing the position? There is also the point I made about the 2019 Estimates provided after the budget. Is it possible to have a column on that as well to show if there are any changes between those Estimates and these Revised Estimates?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: I thought I might be falling over in anticipation today when I would be asking this question because the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, was actually in the Chamber. As usual, he absconded before we could actually get to the promised legislation in order to avoid answering any questions. During our schooldays, if we had been able to shoot the breeze and fist-pump and high-five our...

Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: I welcome the opportunity to discuss the threat posed by Brexit to our agrifood sector. We are having this debate against the backdrop of the continuing chaos at Westminster, where it is still no clearer what might unfold or what the final landing place will be in respect of the UK's decision to leave the European Union. Whether it is a case of a hard Brexit or a soft Brexit, the decision...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Data (3 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 190. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers enrolled in the AEOS scheme whose contracts ceased by 31 December 2018, by county, in tabular form; if they will be permitted to apply to join GLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15678/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Data (3 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 189. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers participating in the GLAS scheme that have planted land with wild bird cover that previously had designated ANC land that are no longer eligible under the terms and conditions of the 2019 ANC scheme (details supplied). [15677/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Exports (3 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 191. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quota regime in operation since 2009 pertaining to US and Canadian hormone free beef exports annually to the EU in terms of tonnage and value from each country; and the amount of the annual quota that has been used each year by each country, in tabular form. [15679/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Administration (4 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the level of red tape involved in the annual forms that applicants for farm assist are required to fill out and return will be reviewed; if the level of information that is required on an annual basis will be reduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15366/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (4 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 131. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a three year cap on farm businesses' assets in circumstances in which a family successor commits to continue to farm the asset for a period of six years (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15822/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (4 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 253. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS payment will issue to a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in issuing same to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15683/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Preparations (4 Apr 2019)

Charlie McConalogue: 260. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has applied to the EU for the available financial assistance for training officials in performing sanitary and phytosanitary controls as indicated in an EU communication (details supplied); and if preparations are in place for a no-deal Brexit in view of the completion of preparations by the EU for a possible no-deal scenario...