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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: The issue is the old pots and the need to prove that one had pots. We do not want to significantly increase the number of pots in use through a scheme of grant aid. Overfishing of lobster is already taking place in some areas. We want people who can show they have lost pots before being able to replace the pots they have lost. The problem is that it is very difficult to have a grant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: Bord Iascaigh Mhara is responsible for rolling out the scheme. It was my understanding that it was originally intended that receipts would be provided by shrimp and lobster fishermen. I will ask Bord Iascaigh Mhara the reason for the difference in approach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: Whatever approach we take, it will be audited, as is required, and I will have to appear before a different committee to explain the reason we are spending money and show receipts for this expenditure. The last time we launched the scheme, we took a conservative approach and I indicated we would revisit the scheme if the allocation was not fully spent. We have done this and reopened the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: The scheme has only been opened. I am not sure to what type of cut-off date the Deputy is referring as the losses must have occurred during the storms.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: The scheme will certainly be open for the next month. I can check the exact date.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: The figure is 127 mm.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: Does that relate to the CFP generally?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: Yes, it is a stimulus initiative to try to get physical work done on piers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: Does that relate to aquaculture or what type of licensing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: I will address Deputy Ó Cuív's questions first. He asked about the advertising for new applicants for the scheme. That is either happening today or it is about to happen and, therefore, it is rather difficult to give an assessment of the take-up. Reference was made to mackerel allocation. There has been a significant increase in the mackerel quota this year, largely linked to a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: Anyone who has been to places such as the Gascanane Sound in west Cork will know there are hundreds, if not more, seals, in other places. I get mixed reports on seals and their impact on wild fisheries. Bord Iascaigh Mhara is assessing that, but we are not in a position to decide on seal culls without a lot of science to back it up. That would be a very unpopular thing to do among the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture and Fisheries Councils and Report on Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (10 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: We are making good progress with regard to licensing. Up to three years ago there had not been a licence granted for about five years in any area of aquaculture. Two years ago I signed off on about 130 licences, with 134 last year and this year it will be more than 200 licences. This shows we are making progress, but all these bays must first be assessed because they are all Natura 2000...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (11 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: As my Department has no record of eligible animals being declared on the holding of the person named for the last number of years, he is not due payments under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme. The person named was approved for participation in the 2011 Agri-Environment Options Scheme with effect from 1 September 2011 and full entitlements have issued in respect of the 2011 and 2012 Scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Appeals (11 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: The person named was approved for participation in the 2010 Agri-Environment Options Scheme with effect from the 1stSeptember 2010 and full payments have issued in respect of the 2010, 2011 and 2012 Scheme years. During a 2013 inspection, the person named was deemed non-compliant in respect of the Alternative Water Source for Bovine action which resulted in a penalty being imposed. A letter...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (11 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: The enquiry in question from the person named asked as to ‘the reasons specialist heifer feeders were excluded from the beef premium payments system; if he has considered a form of redress system for these farmers as a consequence of them only receiving a relatively small single farm payment or none at all’. As indicated in the previous reply to the Deputy, the EU Regulations...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers Development (11 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: Howth Fishery Harbour Centre in County Dublin is one of the six designated Fishery Harbour Centres, which are owned, managed and maintained by my Department. While Howth Fishery Harbour Centre is first and foremost a working fishery harbour, there are also a wide range of recreational users of the harbour, including the yacht club, sport fishermen, walkers, tourists and other social users....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grassland Sheep Scheme Discontinuation (11 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: The Grassland Sheep Scheme is based on Article 68 of the current EU Regulation 73/2009 which governs direct payments in the form of the Single Payment Scheme. As of 1 January 2015 that Regulation is superseded by EU Regulation 1307/2013 and consequently there is no longer any legal basis for the continuation of the Grassland Sheep Scheme in its present form. In developing the shape of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (11 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: The Single Payment Scheme entitlements established for every farmer under the Single Farm Payment Scheme in 2005 were based on the average number of animals or of Arable Aid, and the average number of hectares on which payment was made, under the Livestock Premia schemes and/or Arable Aid Schemes during the reference years 2000, 2001 and 2002. A change of farming enterprise from Suckler to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (11 Jun 2014)

Simon Coveney: A comprehensive process to finalise the results of the 2013 Single Farm Payment/Disadvantaged Areas Schemes inspections is nearing completion. On completion of this process the detailed range of data requested will be forwarded directly to the Deputy.