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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Policy (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: As Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, I am acutely aware of the importance of recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in relation to the challenges facing us all regarding mitigation of emissions and the need to ensure that we are resilient and can adapt to climate change. It is important that every sector plays its part given Ireland’s very...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of 1 October 2015 and has received full payments in respect of the 2015 and 2016 scheme years. The Department is aware of an issue with this case that resulted in the 2017 advance payment not being made. Department officials are currently identifying a solution to the issue and payment will be processed once this...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme Applications (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: The above named applied for grant aid under the Young Farmer’s Capital Investment Scheme of TAMS II on 22 February 2018. This application was rejected on 26 March 2018 as applications from Joint Ventures are not allowed under the Young Farmers Capital Investment Scheme (except in the case where ALL members of venture are qualifying young farmers). In order for other joint ventures to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff Training (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: I propose to take Questions Nos. 295 and 296 together. My Department's social media presence is managed by the Press and Information Office of my Department. Since 2011, staff members from the Press and Information Office and I.T. sections have attended 3 training courses on the use of social media, at a total cost of €475. Separate to these courses, a member of my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: The persons named were approved into GLAS 2 with a contract commencement date of January 1st 2016 and have received all payments in respect of 2016 and the 2017 advance payment. Administrative checks involving a number of sections within the Department take place on all GLAS claims. An over-declaration was identified in this case which resulted in a penalty being applied. The persons...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 3 with a contract commencement date of 1 January 2017. Administrative checks involving a number of sections within the Department take place on all GLAS claims. All cases must clear validation checks before payment can issue. Department officials are working proactively to complete the checks in this case and once this case clears validations the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Contracts Data (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department had no contracts with the company named in the PQ during the years 2010 to 2014 and in 2018 to date. In the years 2015, 2016 and 2017 the company in question was awarded contracts for services carried out on behalf of the Department. Details, as requested by the Deputy, are provided in the attached table. 2015 Nature of work undertaken by the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Knowledge Transfer Programme (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: Knowledge Transfer (KT) is one of a suite of measures included under the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 and involves formation and administration of KT groups across the beef, dairy, equine, sheep, tillage and poultry sectors. The person named is a participant of the KT Beef Programme and as outlined he attended four of the five meetings held by the Facilitator of his group....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Data (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: I propose to take Questions Nos. 301 to 303, inclusive, together. The Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) stores the land parcel details for all Department area based schemes. The information stored is used for BPS, ANC, GLAS, Organics and Forestry Schemes. GLAS payments are made based on the land parcels that are claimed by the GLAS applicant in the annual BPS application....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Parcel Identification System (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: The Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) underpins a range of area based schemes which are administered by my Department. In keeping with EU Regulations, the LPIS must be regularly maintained and kept up to date and accurate. The digitisation process is the means by which required changes to land parcel details are updated on the LPIS to ensure its continued accuracy. The main reasons...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Parcel Identification System (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: The same mapping system is used for both BPS and GLAS to ensure compatibility. The Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) stores the land parcel details for all Department area based schemes. The information stored is used for BPS, ANC, GLAS, Organics and Forestry Schemes. GLAS payments are made based on the Land Parcels that are claimed by the GLAS applicant in the annual BPS application....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: In the context of the Rural Development Programme 2014 - 2020 my Department has delivered over twenty new schemes that were supported by IT capability. In the first two years of the current RDP programme my Department has already implemented substantially more RDP schemes than were implemented over the entire ten year lifetime of the previous RDP programme. This rate of delivery and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Administration (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: I propose to take Questions Nos. 307 and 308 together. The Department’s schemes and services are supported by a wide range of complex interconnected IT systems.  These systems are developed and supported using an appropriate mix of internal ICT staff supported by external resources. The external support for each of the systems in question was sourced through separate...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rights of Way Provision (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: Coillte was established as a private commercial company under the Forestry Act, 1988 and day-to-day operational matters, such as the management of their lands, are the responsibility of the company. The company has, however, confirmed that the request for a right of way, to which the Deputy refers, is currently going through Coillte’s internal approval procedures and that the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Data (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: The information requested by the deputy is in the following table. Payments continue to issue on a weekly basis as cases clear all validations. GLAS 1 GLAS 2 GLAS 3 TOTAL County Advance paid Adv not paid Advance paid Adv not paid Advance paid Adv not paid Advance paid Adv not paid Carlow 260 12 114 10 124 3 498 25 Cavan 871 30 400 28 522 13 1,793 71 Clare 1,526 73 650 31 781 26...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Data (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: The following table outlines the current position. The number to be finalised of 497 includes 430 cases where participants have already transformed to GLAS but may be due payment on capital investments for 2017 under their AEOS contract. These cases must be examined to verify that all AEOS scheme payments were correctly made before the final 2017 AEOS payment can be released. Payments are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Data (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: For Pillar 1, my Department does not have an allocation of funding per se from the National Vote. Rather, national ceilings are set out in the relevant EU Regulations, and the Department manages the expenditure on all Pillar 1 schemes with reference to these ceilings. The relevant ceilings as set out in the EU Regulations are as follows: - 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Ceiling...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Livestock Issues (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: The information requested by the Deputy is as follows.  The livestock unit data in each case is based on cattle and sheep data held by my Department. Table 1 - Livestock units per hectare and BPS value per hectare Range of average BPS value per hectare  - € Livestock Unit per hectare 0-100 0.75 100-200 1.20 200-300 1.60 300-400 1.78 400-500 1.70 500-600 1.71 600-700...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: The implementation of the Rural Development Programme is reviewed on an on-going basis to ensure that EU objectives are met and that all EU funding is fully drawn down.  The latest review, just completed,  confirms that the entire budget of some €4 billion is fully committed and expected to be spent and therefore no new schemes under the RDP can be considered at this time.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme Funding (29 Mar 2018)

Michael Creed: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the tables: Table 1 – Voted Allocations for Schemes 2014-2018, Expenditure 2014-2017 - Knowledge Transfer Scheme GLAS Beef Data and Genomics Programme TAMS II Sheep Welfare Scheme Hen Harrier Programme Allocation 2015 0 20,000,000 35,000,000 0 0 0 Expenditure 2015 0 11,452,500 34,692,000 0 0 0 Allocation 2016 0 139,500,000...