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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (21 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted a 2019 Basic Payment Scheme/Areas of Natural Constraints schemes application on 16 April 2019. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including, in some cases, Ground Eligibility inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The application of the person named was selected...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (21 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: Two VBS 2000 machines were used in the trial carried out at Slaney Foods as follows: - The existing classification machine (VBS2000) currently authorised for classification. - A second VBS2000 classification machine, installed for the purposes of the trial and fitted with the modified technology - a new digital camera and LED lights. As outlined in the recently published report, automated...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (21 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into the GLAS 1 scheme with a contract commencement date of 1 October 2015 and has received payment for scheme years 2015 - 2018. The 2019 advance payment has not been made in this case as the application did not pass the GLAS pre-payment validations due to a validity issue with a claim for the Planting a Grove of Native Trees action. A GLAS official has...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Scheme (21 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: I have attached tables showing the number of TB reactor animals disclosed for the years 2013 to 2018 and to date in 2019. This data has been extracted from the Animal Health Computer System. A breakdown is given by four different Herd Types, Dairy, Suckler, Beef and Other (other relates to mixed enterprises) along with each animal type Cow, Bull, Heifer, Steer and Calf. The total number of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (21 Nov 2019)

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. Greyhounds are subject to statutory dog licensing provisions similar to any other breed of dog...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Scheme (21 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: In the circumstances outlined by the Deputy, typically the animals would be deemed reactors and the holding would remain restricted. A TB reactor is an animal that reacts to the TB skin test or blood test. Both tests are employed to maximise the efficacy of the TB eradication scheme. As in testing for any disease in any animal, there are a wide range of factors that impact on tests. These...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Enterprises (21 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The information requested by the Deputy is currently being compiled and will be forwarded to him as soon as it is available. The Irish Government has provided significant financial support to the beef sector over the past number of years through national funding and the rural development programme. The Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) provides Irish beef farmers with up to €300...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (21 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: Officials in my Department have completed the review of this case and have written to the person named earlier this week with the outcome of this review.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (21 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: My Department manages the licensing process for four distinct forestry operations; 1. Afforestation; 2. Forest road works; 3. Aerial fertilisation; 4. Tree felling. Applications for the first three operations must be made through a registered forester. Applicants do not require a forester to apply for a tree felling licence. My Department uses an online application system, to which...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: I thank my colleagues for raising this matter. I, along with the Government and the Deputies who have spoken on this, recognise the difficulties in the beef sector and agriculture generally. That is why the Government, in 2019 alone, put forward funding of an additional €120 million to support incomes in that challenged sector. The Teagasc 2020 results published earlier reflect that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The beef market task force is one of the tangible outcomes of the negotiations that were held. Like all Members, I would like that task force to meet. In the interim, as we try to bridge difficulties, which I will deal with briefly, there has been bilateral engagement between the chairman and all the constituent members. It is not true to say that no progress has been made. We have had...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: There are specific issues regarding convening the task force, and Members are quite well aware of them. It has been alluded to that injunctions still remain, and they remain granted to a company that is not part of the talks in MII. What has compounded the difficulty in having those injunctions dealt with is that, and this is a matter which the Garda is aware of, senior management in that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: If the Deputy wishes to indicate that his shrug of the shoulders was indicating a negative in respect of death threats, I accept what he says. However, I, the Government, the Minister for Justice and Equality and the Garda take them seriously.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into the GLAS 1 scheme with a contract commencement date of 1 October 2015 and received payments for scheme years 2015 - 2017 and the 2018 Advance payment. In this case, the application has not yet passed the pre-payment validation checks for the 2018 balance due to issues with the associated BPS application. Once this issue is resolved and the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Grants (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: An application for the Afforestation Grant and Premium Scheme was received for the person named in April this year.  The assessment of the site takes in seven different SACs, two of which must be considered in-depth, due to the nature of the SAC and its proximity.  The assessment of the application is on-going and is being in carried out in accordance with recently revised...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted a 2019 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) application on 9 May 2019 in which he declared a share on the Dunloe Upper Commonage in County Kerry.  An over claim has occurred on this commonage and my Department is currently reviewing this over claim.  This over claim is impacting on payment under the BPS, ANC and GLAS schemes.  An...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The person named has been an applicant under the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) from 2015 to 2019. Applicants under the BPS were allocated payment entitlements in 2015.  These are paid annually on the basis that a BPS application is submitted and the applicant declares an eligible hectare of agricultural land per entitlement. The Terms and Conditions booklet for the BPS is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: Under the current Rural Development Regulation (and subsequent amendments under the Omnibus Regulation), Member States were required to change the approach to the designation of land under the Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme. Previously, my Department had been identifying eligible areas using a range of socio-economic indicators such as family farm income, population density, percentage...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Properties (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: I assume that the Deputy is referring to the former waste disposal site known as the East Tip on Haulbowline Island.  I am sincerely impressed at the transformation that has taken place there since contracts were signed in July 2017 to deliver remediation works.  All of the works have now been completed and it really is incredible to see that where there was once a bleak...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Policy (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: Following a consultative process earlier this year, the Code of Good Agricultural Practice for Reducing Ammonia Emissions from Agriculture was launched on Wednesday 20th November 2019 and can be found on my Department's website. www.agriculture.gov.ie/media/migration/ruralenvironment/clim atechange/bioenergy/codeofgoodagpracticeammoniaemissions/1Co...