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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Knowledge Transfer Programme (12 Jul 2018)

Michael Creed: The information requested by the Deputy is not readily available in the specific format requested. It is  being collated and will be forward to the Deputy as soon as it is available.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Negotiations (12 Jul 2018)

Michael Creed: I propose to take Questions Nos. 579 and 584 together. As I have advised  before, fisheries is, and will remain, a high priority for Ireland in the Brexit negotiations.  I am determined to ensure that fisheries remain high on the Brexit agenda in the EU and that the interests of Ireland's fishing communities are fully safeguarded. The London Fisheries Convention deals...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Fisheries Policy (12 Jul 2018)

Michael Creed: The London Fisheries Convention deals primarily with the right of a number of countries to fish in each other's 6 to 12 mile fishing zones based on historic fishing activity. Most of these rights were later incorporated into the Common Fisheries Policy. On the basis of the provisions of Articles 2 and 9 of the Convention, pre-existing reciprocal arrangements were re-affirmed at the time by...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Landings (12 Jul 2018)

Michael Creed: I have set out in the following table the data sought by the Deputy.  The percentages of Irish landings taken from the UK 6-12nm zones were estimated using positional data from Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS) and landings data from the EU logbooks. Since 2013, all vessels with a total length of 12m and over have been equipped with VMS; therefore the analysis was performed on the years...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Fisheries Policy (12 Jul 2018)

Michael Creed: I propose to take Questions Nos. 582 and 583 together. The following table gives the area of the EEZ of each EU member state in square kilometres as well as the percentage of each EEZ as part of the total EU EEZ and the percentage as part of the EU EEZ excluding the UK. Please note that the areas given here relate only to the mainland EEZ areas including the North East Atlantic,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Data (12 Jul 2018)

Michael Creed: One of my priorities is to improve access to finance for the agri-food sector. Food Wise 2025 identifies competitiveness as a key theme and includes a recommendation that stakeholders work to “improve access to finance for agriculture, forestry and seafood producers and agri-food companies”. In March this year, I launched the new “Brexit Loan Scheme” in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme Data (12 Jul 2018)

Michael Creed: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following 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 2014 0 0 23,000,000 0 0 0 Expenditure 2014 0 0 21,750,521 0 0 0 Allocation 2015 0 20,000,000...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mental Health Services (12 Jul 2018)

Michael Creed: The Health Service Executive provides a wide range of community and hospital based mental health services in Ireland and can be contacted at 1850 24 1850. While my Department does not have any direct provisions for mental health in the various farm schemes it operates, it does however provide on-going initiatives which would indirectly alleviate mental health related pressures...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme (12 Jul 2018)

Michael Creed: Article 75(1) of EU Council Regulation 1306/2013 states that Member States may, prior to 1 December but not before 16 October, pay advances of up to 50% for direct payments and of up to 75% for support granted under rural development. Article 75(3) of this regulation provides that the Commission may derogate from these provisions in the event of an emergency. Cognisant of the extreme...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme Data (12 Jul 2018)

Michael Creed: The information requested by the Deputy is set out below: RDP scheme 2018 Allocation/ Projected expenditure Knowledge Transfer Group 23,000,000 GLAS Training 7,836,858 BDGP Training 481,760 CPD for advisors 300,000 TASAH Advisory 981,000 Setting up POs 75,000 TAMS II 69,950,455 AEOS (Transitional) 528,735 GLAS Traditional Farm Buildings 1,000,000 GLAS 195,151,942 Burren...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (12 Jul 2018)

Michael Creed: The level of expenditure within the TAMS II Schemes is being monitored  and approvals and payments continue on an on going basis. The budget allocation for the RDP period is €395m. The annual budget allocations are the subject of discussions with DPER. A spending review of the TAMS Schemes was undertaken by DPER in October 2017. At that stage the level of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (12 Jul 2018)

Michael Creed: The TAMS II Scheme has been very successful to date in terms of uptake with the number of approvals that have issued reaching 15,000.  All of these approvals represent committed expenditure and until such time as these approvals are acted upon or expire the budget for TAMS must include provision for the potential expenditure involved.  Of the applications approved just...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Prices (12 Jul 2018)

Michael Creed: As the Deputy is aware, in recent years the EU has accumulated large amounts of public intervention stocks of skimmed milk powder (SMP), which are overhanging the dairy market and providing negative effects on wider dairy markets and market sentiment.  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/2080 which initially opened the sale of skimmed milk powder by a tendering procedure...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Living Wage Implementation (12 Jul 2018)

Michael Creed: Based on the introduction of a minimal threshold hourly rate of €11.90, the estimated additional annual payroll cost for staff employed by my Department would be approximately €500,000. It should be noted that this figure does not include the costs associated with the employment of temporary Clerical Officers who are engaged from time to time. The...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Identification Scheme (12 Jul 2018)

Michael Creed: The rules governing the timescale within which equines must be identified are determined at EU level. Commission Implementing Regulation 262/2015 (CR 262/2015), which has been effective since 1st January 2016, lays down the rules regarding the identification of equines. This legislation was transposed into national law via S.I. 62 of 2016. Article 12(1) of CR 262/2015...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (12 Jul 2018)

Michael Creed: In certain situations, trees and forests may be incompatible with the conservation of protected habitats and species at a site and/or at national level. In these cases deforestation may be considered. For example, the continuation (via reforestation) of forest cover on a particular site within an SAC may be deemed incompatible with the maintenance and restoration of a particular habitat for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Michael Creed: I thank the Chairman and the committee for the invitation to address this afternoon's meeting. As members will know, 2018 has presented the agricultural community with some of the most challenging weather conditions in recent memory. Significant storms and an exceptionally wet spring period was followed almost immediately by two months of exceptionally dry hot weather. This placed an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Michael Creed: I thank Deputies Cahill and Penrose, as well as the Chairman, for their questions. I should emphasise that I acknowledge that it has been extremely challenging inside the farm gate physically, financially and from a general well-being perspective for a profession that is practised substantially in isolation. We should never underestimate that particular aspect of this challenge. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Michael Creed: The work of the stakeholder group, the Department, Teagasc and, indeed, myself has been ongoing across the summer and through the month of August. The question Deputy McConalogue poses is how to close the gap. There is no single instrument that will close the gap. I could not agree more with Senator Paul Daly that imports alone will not solve the problem. The fear was that in flying that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Michael Creed: Our support is approximately €50 per tonne on imports. My understanding is that the destinations are substantially France, Spain and Italy for alfalfa primarily.