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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: It would be entirely a new departure and would be in breach of the Common Fisheries Policy's relative stability principle in that there is no national quota for this species. It is an EU quota allowing everyone to go at it hell for leather with fishermen landing everything. We really feel that would be a retrograde step.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: We would like to think that but we do not underestimate the challenge. In the Common Fisheries Policy Spain is "Mr. Fish". It sees a real opportunity here. It would be a major problem for us. We understand the complexity related to the landing obligation. The industry here has been very proactive in securing new fishing gear and adjusting net mesh sizes to meet the challenges on landing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: Fishermen can land everything now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: These would be in species in which they have had no track record of having quota. They might have previously swapped with other member states to try to deal with issues they had. They see this zero state quota as a free-for-all for anybody to fish and land as much as possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: Industry forums, quota-management advisory committees, are discussing how we might deal with this discards issue. The industry here has been leading in introducing new technologies, and nets with escape hatches and larger mesh sizes so that fishermen are not catching juvenile fish other wild fish, etc., that they would be obliged to discard otherwise. From 1 January 2019 they have to land...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: It is a real challenge for member states and the Commission, and there is no point in saying otherwise. It will take the industry's and the processors' best endeavours to share data and arrive at a situation where we can meet the obligation without having a consequent impact of closing off the opportunity to fish stocks for which we have quota remaining. I presume it will require, for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: These are what are called the coastal state negotiations, which are negotiations between the European Union, Norway and other stakeholders, including the Faroe Islands and Iceland. The original advice from International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, ICES, was around 60% but the Norwegian starting position was that it would not cut below 20%. The negotiations have been ongoing and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: I am aware of the Deputy's interest and that of his constituency colleagues in this issue. It is not one of the six State-owned piers. Efforts are under way across Government to try to find a funding solution however it is not on the radar for the Department's 2019 capital programme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: I am not sure because it is the property of the local authority. While the Department was previously involved that was in the context of the work being done by the local authority being funded by the Department. Therefore, it does not matter what funding line goes to the project as long as the work is completed. It is not one of the six State-owned harbours. The Deputy will be aware that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: We fund a scheme through local authorities. The problem with this project is that it has costed multiples of the conventional local authority scheme. Apart from those, there is a very considerable shopping list from the six State-owned harbours, including the one closest to us here, in Howth, in terms of dredging. Significant investment is already under way in some - for example, in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (28 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: Under the 2018 Areas of Natural Constraints (ANC) Scheme some 100,828 applicants hold eligible designated lands. The ANC Scheme is subject to a range of eligibility and compliance criteria such as .scheme each year having successfully fulfilled all scheme requirements. To date some 89,566 applicants have been paid a total of €215.7m under the 2018 ANC Scheme. It is not possible, at...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (28 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted a 2018 Basic Payment Scheme application on 12th April 2018. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases on farm inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The applications of the associated partners in this partnership were selected for a ground...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (28 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted a 2018 Basic Payment/Areas of Natural Constraint Schemes application on 8th May 2018. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases on farm inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The application of the person named was selected for a ground...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (29 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: Let the hare sit.

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2018: Motion (29 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft:Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2018,copies of which were laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 20th November, 2018.”

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (29 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted a 2018 Basic Payment/Areas of Natural Constraint Schemes application on the 30th April 2018. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases on farm inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The application of the person named was selected for a Ground...

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

Michael Creed: The Future Growth Loan Scheme is being developed by my Department and the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation in partnership with the Department of Finance, the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI) and the European Investment Fund (EIF). It will be delivered through participating finance providers and make up to €300 million of long-term investment loans...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (29 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: The farm-gate value of horticultural output for 2017 was estimated by my Department as just over €433million, of which the mushroom sector accounted for €118 million. This was followed in value terms by the protected crops and potato sectors which contributed over €80 million each. Given that harvesting of certain horticultural crops is still on-going the output estimate...

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

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of 1 October 2015 and has received payments in respect of 2015 and 2016 and the 2017 advance payment. The 2017 balance payment was delayed due to issues relating to an inspection. These issues will be concluded shortly and the 2017 balance payment will then issue. Once the 2017 balance payment is made the case will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Budget 2018 (29 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: My Department has provided €20 million in budget 2019 for a new pilot scheme for suckler farmers, specifically aimed at further improving the carbon efficiency of beef production. The Beef Environmental Efficiency Pilot (BEEP) will target the weaning efficiency of suckler cows and calves - measuring the liveweight of the calf at weaning as a percentage of the cow's liveweight. ...