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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: My Department's €240 million European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) Operational Programme 2014-20 is the vehicle for financial supports to the seafood sector up to 2021 and is co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Union. The Programme delivers a wide range of supports for fisheries, aquaculture and seafood processing through a suite of 18 schemes. There are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Funding (19 Nov 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. Teagasc also earn approximately €50m per annum in own resource income. The amount of funding it allocates to specific programmes and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme Data (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The details requested by the Deputy are currently being compiled but will take some time to complete. The answer will be provided directly to the Deputy as soon as complete.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme Data (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The Organic Farming Scheme is one of the most successful schemes under our current Rural Development Programme. A budget of €56m was allocated to fund the Scheme opened during the period 2014 to 2020 which was the largest allocation ever to an Organics support scheme. The Scheme has more than achieved its targets in terms of new land converted and the maintenance of organic land....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The legislative powers to tackle the matters mentioned are under the auspices of the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation, together with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission. The Commission, which was established on 31 October 2014, is the statutory body responsible for enforcing consumer protection and competition law in Ireland. Previous legislation, the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Programme (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The main purpose of the proposed legislative amendments is to provide for a points system for masters of fishing vessels for serious infringements of the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy, as required by Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009. The draft amending legislation would resolve some typographical errors in the Principal Act of 2006 and introduce other miscellaneous and technical...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Marketing Programme (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: Bord Bia is the state agency responsible of the marketing and promotion of Irish food and drinks worldwide, including suckler beef. Its remit involves the promotion of Irish agricultural products across the world, especially those covered by national quality schemes such as the Quality Assurance Scheme, via trade fairs, public relations activities, publications & presentations with...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: Discussions take place with a number of parties in the run up to December Fisheries Council including high level meetings with the Commission, the Presidency and other Member States as part of the preparation for the Council as well as a number of important technical meetings. These meetings allow my officials to understand the priorities of other Member States and also gauge where Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted two applications for felling licences in June, 2019 The applicant has recently been requested to provide a harvest plan for one of the applications referenced, so no further processing on this application can take place until that is received. Both applications will be fully assessed under new Appropriate Assessment procedures which have been introduced on foot...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: Applications for the Afforestation Grant and Premium Scheme for the reference numbers provided, were submitted by the registered forester and acknowledged in March, 2019.Afforestation licence approvals for both applications issued to the applicant and their registered forester in August. They were both appealed to the Forestry Appeals Committee, which is independent of my Department. The...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry Irregularities (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: In January 2019, one factory was fined for excess carcase trimming of three carcasses. Similar to last year, it is proposed to publish the names of all factories penalised for non-compliance with the regulation in December.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The Deputy's previous questions were understood to have related to digestate and were answered in the context of public and animal health under Regulation 1069/2009. However, I can confirm that separately my Department is conducting an investigation under the Environmental Impact Assessment regulations (SI 456/2011) in County Donegal but cannot comment further while matters are under...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme Data (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The Organic Farming Scheme is one of the most successful schemes under our current Rural Development Programme. A budget of €56m was allocated to fund the Scheme opened during the period 2014 to 2020 which was the largest allocation ever to an Organics support scheme. The Scheme has more than achieved its targets in terms of new land converted and the maintenance of organic land....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry Irregularities (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: In 2018, my Department conducted almost 550 unannounced, on-the-spot inspections in 32 factories on classification and carcase presentation. There were an average of 18 inspections per factory which significantly exceeds the legal minimum requirement of 8 inspections per year.At each inspection, 85 carcases on average are checked. In 2018, non-compliance was identified in 3 factories where...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: My Department is obliged in its role as competent authority under EU Regulation 1379/2013 on the Common Organisation of the Market in Fishery and Aquaculture products (CMO) to ensure that an application for recognition as a fisheries or aquaculture Producer Organisation complies with the requirements of Article 14 of the CMO Regulation. One of those requirements set out in paragraph 1(b) of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: EU regulations governing the administration of the Basic Payment Scheme, the Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme and other area-based schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including Ground or Remote Sensing (Satellite) inspections where applicable, are fully completed to ensure eligibility with the various schemes requirements before any payments issue. There are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: I acknowledge that changes made to internal Appropriate Assessment Procedures (AAP) has resulted in delays to many files.  These are beyond my Department’s control as we are obliged to implement changes to AAP that were required following important Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decisions and their subsequent interpretation by the Forestry Appeals Committee and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers Funding (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: Greencastle Harbour is owned by Donegal County Council and responsibility for its maintenance and development rests with that Local Authority in the first instance and its parent Department, the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government thereafter. My Department owns, operates and maintains six designated State-owned Fishery Harbour Centres, located at...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: This proposed project by Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) is currently under review in the wider context of the provision of existing professional sea survival training facilities within the State and the cost, both construction and operational, of such a facility. The existing professional sea survival training facilities based at the National Maritime College of Ireland, Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The following table shows the costs incurred in purchasing Mobile phones by year: Year Cost 2016 €5,792.09 2017 €14,699.73 2018 €910.20 2019 €11,253.88 The allocation of mobiles phones is not based on grade but on business requirements. The...