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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: A robust shellfish biotoxin monitoring regime is essential in order to protect consumers and safeguard the good reputation of the Irish seafood industry. I am aware that a number of bays in the south-west have experienced temporary suspensions of harvesting over the Winter as the level of biotoxins exceeded the regulatory limits. Such harvesting suspensions are not unusual and all aquaculture...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commonage Framework Plans (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: Under the proposals for Commonages in the new GLAS Scheme, the shareholders themselves will draw up a new Commonage Plan, guided by the agricultural adviser they have chosen for their commonage. In these new Plans, a minimum and maximum stocking - level will be assigned to each participating shareholder and each shareholder will be required to comply on an individual basis with his or her...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: The new rules referred to apply on a number of GLAS actions, including Low Input Permanent Pasture, and the over-riding concern is to protect farmland birds, whose nesting period commences from early March onwards. However, the Draft GLAS Specification allows topping to take place any time from 15th July to 15thMarch. This is in fact a relaxation of the rules which applied previously under...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: The person named registered twenty two animals under the 2014 Beef Data Programme/Beef Genomics Schemes. The twenty two animals have been validated under the 2014 Beef Genomics Programme and payment will issue to the applicant shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishery Harbour Centres (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, owns and directly manages six Fishery Harbour Centres located at Howth, Dunmore East, Castletownbere, Ros an Mhíl, Killybegs and An Daingean. Departmental signage, addressing Health & Safety matters primarily, is present at each of the Centres, including Howth. Matters pertaining to the updating of such signage are kept under...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: The person named commenced REPS 4 in May 2009 and received payments for the first five years of their contract. REPS is a measure under the 2007-13 Rural Development Programme and is subject to EU regulations which require detailed administrative checks on all applications to be completed before any payments can issue. In addition, an on-farm compliance inspection took place in November 2014...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: An application under 2014 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 7 April 2014. Payment has not issued as yet, as the holding concerned has not satisfied the Scheme minimum stocking density requirements. Immediately the holding is identified as meeting these requirements, the application will be further processed with a view to payment at the earliest possible date.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: The person named was approved for participation in the 2012 Agri Environment Options Scheme (AEOS 3) with effect from the 1stMay 2013. Under the EU Regulations governing the Scheme and other area-based payment schemes, a comprehensive administrative check, including cross-checks with the Land Parcel Identification System, must be completed before any payment can issue. During these checks...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Labelling (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: Rules on the labelling of meat and meat products are laid down in EU legislation. For beef, compulsory labellingruleshave been in place for many years, and require food business operators to label fresh, frozen or minced beef with specific information to enable the product to be traced back to the animals from which it was derived. This must include details of the slaughterhouse and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: An application under the 2012 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 15 May 2012. Following processing, an error was identified in respect of a previous year's ground inspection. This error has recently been resolved. In order to expedite the outstanding payment, I have arranged for a manual payment to issue. This will shortly issue directly to the nominated bank...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: The person named registered seventeen animals born under the 2012 Suckler Welfare Scheme. Payment was made in respect of two of the animals that died and had been removed to a Knackery. Under the Terms and Conditions of the Scheme, for herds with more than ten cows, the calves must be weaned in more than one group. In this case, according to the data submitted by the person named, all 15...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: Detailed rules for the implementation of the Rural Environment Protection Scheme, which is a measure under the 2007-2013 Rural Development Programme, are set out in Commission Regulations 1974 and 1975 of 2006. The framework for the implementation of these rules is set out in a document titled Terms and Conditions of the Rural Environment Protection Scheme and the Natura 2000 Scheme as...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grassland Sheep Scheme Payments (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: An application under 2014 Grassland Sheep Scheme was received from the person named on 2ndMay 2014. Processing of the application has recently been finalised and payment will issue shortly, directly to the nominated bank account of the person named.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Policy (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: Last July the Government appointed Ann Phelan, T.D. as Minister of State with specific responsibility for implementation of the CEDRA report. Minister Phelan established the CEDRA Interdepartmental Group in August involving all the main departmental actors dealing with the 34 CEDRA recommendations. The selection was made on the basis of departmental expertise and three meetings were held in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inshore Fisheries (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: The European Union (Birds and Natural Habitats) (Sea-fisheries) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 290 of 2013 as amended by S.I. 565 of 2014) provides processes for the assessment and management of sea-fisheries activities to ensure that the activities are compatible with the objectives of the Birds and Habitats Directives. A number of assessments have been concluded to date in accordance with the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: The detailed consideration of Ireland's Draft Rural Development Programme (RDP) by the EU Commission is now at an advanced stage and GLAS is a key component of that Programme. I expect to be in a position to announce the opening of GLAS very shortly, once agreement is reached with the EU Commission.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: The Department's records indicate that in 2013, the amount of nitrogen from livestock manureapplied to land on the holding of the person named above (including that deposited by animals) was 305 kgs per hectare, which exceeded the limit of 250 kgs per hectare set down in the Nitrates Regulations for farmers who have availed of the National Derogation allowing more intensive stocking rates...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Appeals (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: The Department's records indicate that in 2013, the amount of nitrogen from livestock manureapplied to land on the holding of the person named above (including that deposited by animals) was 306 kg's per hectare, which exceeded the limit of 170 kg's per hectare set down in the Nitrates Regulations. The person named was notified of this decision on 14 thOctober 2014, and of his right of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020 Strategy (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: CSO Trade statistics for 2014 were released last week. These show that the Food and Beverages categories (less tobacco) showed an increase of 5.8% in exports compared to 2013, demonstrating the continuing strong performance of agri-food exports relative to overall export growth (By comparison, overall merchandise exports increased by just 2.4% compared to 2013). Food Harvest targets were...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry Development (17 Feb 2015)

Simon Coveney: The Seafood Development Programme(SDP)2007-2013 is the framework programme for public investment in the seafood industry, co-funded by the Exchequer and the European Fisheries Fund. The SDP has been operational since 2008 and will end in December 2015 at the latest. The SDP provides for total public investment of €66 million in the fishing fleet, aquaculture, seafood processing,...