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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Civil Service Code of Conduct (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: I propose to take Questions Nos. 452 and 453 together. The Civil Service Code of Standards and Behaviour sets out the standards of behaviour required of civil servants as they carry out their duties. The Code, which embraces core public service values of honesty, integrity and impartiality forms part of the terms of employment of all civil servants, who are expected to apply it at all times....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: The Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters Regulations 2017 give legal effect in Ireland to the Nitrates Directive and to our Nitrates Action Programme (NAP) and the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG) is the lead Department in this regard. The Directive requires all member states to define set periods when the land application of fertiliser is not...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: As you will be aware, the inaugural meeting of the Beef Taskforce which was scheduled for Monday 14th October, had to be suspended due to the actions of a small minority of protestors who physically and aggressively prevented representatives from the meat industry from entering the building for the meeting. The independent chair of the Taskforce, Michael Dowling, is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: Latest figures indicate that there are now some 72,000 hectares under organic production in Ireland, an increase of nearly 50% on the position at the start of the current Rural Development Programme in 2014.   Following the recommendation of the Organic Strategy Group, my colleague Minister Doyle announced the re-opening of the Organic Farming Scheme on a targeted basis on the 19...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licence Applications (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: The Department considers all applications for aquaculture licences in accordance with the provisions of the 1997 Fisheries (Amendment) Act, the 1933 Foreshore Act and applicable EU legislation. The licensing process involves consultation with a wide range of scientific and technical advisers as well as various Statutory Consultees. The legislation also provides for a period of public...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Administration (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: Teagasc's mission is to support science-based innovation in the agri-food sector and the broader bioeconomy that will underpin profitability, competitiveness and sustainability. Its functions as set down in s. 4 of the Agriculture (Research, Training and Advice) Act, 1988 in relation to the provision of educational, training and advisory services in agriculture, the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Funding (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: My Department provides Teagasc with an annual block Grant in Aid subvention to support its activities in providing research, training and advisory services to the agriculture and food sectors. The indicative allocation for 2020 is €136.7m. In addition to exchequer Grant Aid, Teagasc earns approximately €50m per annum in own resource income from fees earned...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Bia Funding (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: I propose to take Questions Nos. 460 to 463, inclusive, together. In the context of the annual budgetary process, I make provision for a total Grant (formerly Grant-in-Aid) for Bord Bia.  As a State Body with direct fiduciary responsibility, it then disposes of this annual sum according to its own annual Plans and Programmes as approved by its Board in line with its...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Bia Funding (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: EU funding is available on a competitive basis to trade and other qualifying bodies within Member States for the generic promotion of the quality, safety, nutrition or production methods of EU agricultural products.  Its legal foundation is EU Regulation 1144/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council – “Information provision and Promotion Measures of Agricultural...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Exports Data (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: The following tables show the breakdown of cattle exported to Northern Ireland from January 2018 to October 2019 on a month-by-month basis in tabular form and categorised by breeding, production and slaughter. This data was extracted from the TRACES system.  2018 Breeding Production Slaughter Total January 513 ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Exports Data (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: The following tables show the breakdown of cattle exported to Northern Ireland from January 2018 to October 2019 on a month-by-month basis in tabular form and categorised by breeding, production and slaughter. This data was extracted from the TRACES system.  2018 Breeding Production Slaughter Total January 513 ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: I propose to take Questions Nos. 467 to 469, inclusive, together. The commitments entered into by my Department and Agencies on foot of the 15th September beef agreement, including the development of a beef market price index model, are being progressed. The Beef Taskforce’s remit is to monitor the implementation of the actions arising from the agreement reached on 15...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Directives (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: The working group on transposition and enforcement of  Directive (EU) 2019/633 on Unfair Trading Practices in business-to-business relationships in the agricultural and food supply chain (UTP Directive) was set up in April this year and has met seven times to date. I launched a public stakeholder consultation on the transposition of the UTP Directive on Friday 18...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: As per the beef sector agreement of 15th September, the agreement in relation to Meat Industry Ireland's insurance scheme was that farmers can opt out of the insurance scheme for animals delivered to factories. This was implemented immediately upon the entry into force of the agreement.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering Standards (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: Following recent discussions between stakeholders and the beef industry on foot of farmer protests, my Department introduced an appeal system for carcass classification in manual grading factories. This appeal procedure was implemented from October 7th, 2019. In summary, if a supplier wishes to have a carcase classification appealed to my Department, the factory must firstly have the carcase...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: My Department does not have the information sought by the Deputy on calf mortality rates in the precise format requested. However, I am in a position to provide the 6 month mortality rates on a per county and sectoral basis for the calendar years 2016-2018 (inclusive) as detailed in the following Table. Herds are categorised as a dairy where a milk supply contract is in place for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: My Department does not hold records of milk yield in dairy cows. Furthermore, this Department does not hold records of the date of drying off of cows, and therefore is not in a position to say whether an animal is in lactation at a point in time. Information relating to the birth records of dairy cows for the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 to date is being collated...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme Data (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following tables:   Table 1 – Allocations and Expenditure under certain RDP Schemes Knowledge Transfer Scheme €000 GLAS €000 Beef Data and Genomics Programme €000 TAMS II €000 Sheep Welfare Scheme €000 ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme Data (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following tables. Table 1. DAFM Expenditure by Measure Level 2014 -2018 and to date 2019 Expenditure 2014 Expenditure 2015 Expenditure 2016 Expenditure 2017 Expenditure 2018 Expenditure to date 2019 Measure 1 - Knowledge transfer and information actions ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Data (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: My Department provides Teagasc with an annual block Grant in Aid subvention to support its activities in providing research, training and advisory services to the agriculture and food sectors. The allocations for 2018 to 2020 are as follows: Year Allocation 2018 €132.5m 2019 €135.2m ...