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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: On the point raised by Deputy Cahill about forestry, we are facing a particular difficulty. As a consequence of court rulings, both domestic and European, we have to effectively rebuild our licensing system. We have established an appeal system as well. I hope that the new licences that have been issued, and they are relatively recent in the context of the rebuilt licensing system that we...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: The problem is that along the supply chain, from afforestation to felling, tilling and forestry roads, we have faced a situation where our previous licensing regime was found to be deficient in some respects in terms of court challenges. We have had to take account of the court rulings, both here and at the European Court of Justice, ECJ, and rebuild our licensing process as it relates to...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: I cannot give the Deputy an exact date but it was relatively recently.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: My understanding is that some of those licence appeals should be heard imminently.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: No, but we are aware of concerns. In terms of the pipeline of activity that various actors along the chain are involved in, whether it is planting, felling or building roads, all of them are seeing the consequences of work they had envisaged would be coming on-stream now being the subject of possible delays and their existing contractual commitments coming to an end. We are aware of the...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: Yes. Under the TAMS regulations, a herd number is required to be eligible for TAMS grant aid. The greater or more onerous obligations to which the Deputy alluded and which relate, for example, to the low-emission, slurry-spreading equipment scheme could be considered in the context of a new rural development programme. There is no eligibility under the current scheme unless a person has a...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: Regarding the point made by Deputy Stanley on Brexit funding, that relates exclusively to east-west arrangements in the context of Rosslare, Dublin Port and Dublin Airport. There is some minor provision in terms of the fishing ports in Killybegs and Castletownbere.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: There has not been and there will not be.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: We have to anticipate that Brexit will happen.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: We have been working on that basis but, as we have always said, we have not spent any money putting infrastructure in place along the Border and nor will we.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: In response to Deputy Corcoran Kennedy's question, I made the point earlier that 426 people have joined or rejoined the Department in 2019 and 215 have retired or moved to other employment. Despite the substantial increase in staff, there is a slight saving on the payroll side of approximately 1% of the allocation. A substantial part of it was in the final third of the year due to an...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Welfare (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: I thank the Deputies for their questions. The welfare of all animals is a priority for my Department and we continue to engage with stakeholders to ensure the welfare of cattle born on dairy farms next spring is provided for appropriately. Further meetings between my Department and stakeholders are planned over the coming period, well in advance of the peak calving season. Several measures...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Welfare (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: The best investment we can make to ensure the continuation of live exports is to underpin this endeavour with high welfare standards. I have emphasised that in all my engagement with various stakeholders, including farm and co-operative leaders and others involved in the export of these animals. In that context, we have introduced revised regulations which improve welfare standards for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: I established the Beef Taskforce to monitor the implementation of the beef sector agreement of 15 September. The Taskforce is comprised of the Independent chair, Michael Dowling, representatives from my Department and relevant State agencies, farmer representative organisations and representatives from the processing sector. I am satisfied that the current composition of the taskforce is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Appeals (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: The Agriculture Appeals Office operates independently of my Department. A review of the Appeals Officer's decision is required to determine if the Appeals Officer made an error of fact or law in that decision or, in cases where new information is provided, if the decision was erroneous in the light of new evidence or of new facts submitted since the date on which the decision was given....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: The objective of the BEAM measure is to provide temporary exceptional adjustment aid to farmers in the beef sector in Ireland subject to the conditions set out in EU Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1132. Section 9.2 of the terms and conditions of the beef exceptional aid measure state that 'Where an (eligible) animal (under 9.1.1) has been presented for slaughter by an agent...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: The approval of establishments for the depuration of live bi-valve molluscs is a matter for the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA). The SFPA is an independent statutory body and I am precluded by statute from interfering in the performance by the SFPA of a function assigned to it or exercising any power or control in relation to individual or groups of cases with which the Authority...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 2 with a contract commencement date of 1 January 2016 and has received payments in respect of scheme years 2016 - 2018, including GLAS + payments. All GLAS claims must pass validation checks, including checks against the associated Basic Payment Scheme application, before a payment can be made. In this case, the application has not cleared the GLAS...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Advertising Expenditure (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: My Department provides public information about the Department's wide range of schemes and programmes. The table below lists my Department's communications initiatives for 2019 which highlighted schemes and programmes of importance to the farming community.  The advertisements were primarily placed in the specialised farming press, provincial and national newspapers and,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Advertising Expenditure (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Creed: My Department provides public information about the Department's wide range of schemes and programmes. Video is one of the formats used to communicate this information and is primarily produced in-house by staff as part of their normal duties.  My Department engages external service providers for specific projects in line with the Department's business needs and...