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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: Yes.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: I can get the Deputy a detailed breakdown on this. The Deputy will recall in my opening remarks I stated the Supplementary Estimate is a technical amendment, in fact, for an amount of €1,000. Although we are bringing forward a liability in 2019 of €15 million for the World Food Programme and approval for €23 million for the agri-environmental schemes and €7...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: It is related to participation in schemes and grants.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: That is not the case. I will get a breakdown for the Deputy. We have fixed numbers of participants in the BDGP, in GLAS etc. Those schemes are co-funded but sometimes the funding arrives late. Sometimes, one get a 2017 and 2018 payment.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: Yes, that is the fund of €240 million, of which €147 million is EU funded. The 2017 payment was higher because that was the first payment under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, EMFF, programme. I will get a detailed briefing note on it for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff Data (5 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: No staff from my department are seconded to work in other EU Member States administration. However Nine staff from my Department currently work as Seconded National Experts (SNEs) in other UN and EU institutions.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (5 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: An application under the 2018 Basic Payment Scheme was received in respect of the person named on 8th May 2018. On this application the claimed area on a commonage parcel was increased considerably. Letters requesting clarification in relation to this have issued on 11th September and 1st October and to date no reply has been received. An official from my Departmment will contact the person...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry Data (5 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: Bord na gCon is a commercial state body, established under the Greyhound Industry Act, 1958 chiefly to control greyhound racing and to improve and develop the greyhound industry. Bord na gCon is a body corporate and a separate legal entity to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The question raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for Bord na gCon. I have requested...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (5 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: As the Deputy may be aware, I undertook an extensive public consultation from 30 April to 11 June 2018 in relation to trawling activity inside the 6 nautical mile zone. A consultation paper was made available on the Department's website setting out the background to this issue and an analysis of the various options available. There were over 900 submissions to the Consultation, including...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: Irish agricultural production is recognised by international independent analysis as having one of the lowest carbon-footprints internationally. The European Commission’s JRC Report of 2010 “Evaluation of the livestock sector's contribution to the EU greenhouse gas emissions (GGELS)” recognised that Ireland (with Austria) had the lowest cow milk emissions as well as the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (5 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 3 with a contract commencement date of 1 January 2017 and has received payments for 2017 and the 2018 advance payment. The 2018 advance claim was underpaid for the Low Input Permanent Pasture action and is due a correcting payment. This payment is expected to issue shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff Data (5 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: One of my key priorities is to further increase the market opportunity for Irish food and drinks internationally. This principle of market development is already a key component of Food Wise 2025, but is particularly important now in the context of Brexit. My Department's market access effort includes work at political, diplomatic and technical levels. The work of staff across the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Eradication Programme (5 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: I propose to take Questions Nos. 262 to 264, inclusive, together. The number of feedlot herds currently restricted under the TB Eradication programme is 337. When a herd meets the criteria to be regarded as a ‘Feedlot’ under the TB Eradication Programme, the herd is restricted under the TB Regulations and a special official supervisory and testing protocol is established. Such...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheepmeat Sector (5 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: The information is still being collated and will be forwarded to the Deputy urgently.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Meat Processing Plants (6 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: The question of the price paid is a matter for producers and processors. Steers and heifers are purchased and paid for on the basis of the quality payment scheme pricing grid. To date in 2018 there have been 521 inspections across 32 slaughter plants and 44,332 carcasses have been inspected. A total of 19 carcasses were found to be non-compliant with the EU reference carcass trimming...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Meat Processing Plants (6 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: I thank the Deputy. One fine for one carcass excessively trimmed is one too many. It is important to remain focused on our objective, that is, to ensure we have full compliance by the factories with the regulations. In terms of the inspections carried out to date in 2018, 0.05% of 44,000 carcasses were found to have non-compliance. Every non-compliance is one too many and, to enhance the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Meat Processing Plants (6 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: What they do with the information is up to them but they will know the identity of the individual plants responsible.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Meat Processing Plants (6 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: I do not accept that either I or the much maligned beef forum has failed. In fairness to all the participants in the forum, the resolution to this issue has been progressed through that. The fact that we are having additional staff trained and put in situ to enhance the level of inspections and the supervision of the kill line to make sure that the existing very low level of non-compliance...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Meat Processing Plants (6 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: -----but every one is one too many. Our ultimate responsibility in terms of transparency is to make sure that every individual farmer knows-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Meat Processing Plants (6 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: -----and that they will be remunerated for any cost they have incurred-----