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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (27 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Rásaíocht Con Éireann (RCÉ) 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. RCÉ is a body corporate and a separate legal entity to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The question raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (27 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Rásaíocht Con Éireann (RCÉ) 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. RCÉ is a body corporate and a separate legal entity to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The question raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (27 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Rásaíocht Con Éireann (RCÉ) 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. RCÉ is a body corporate and a separate legal entity to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The question raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: There are currently valid licences issued for approximately 7,000ha that could be utilised before the end of 2022. Of these 2,194 ha represents 714 applications with a GPC3 component, approved since 1st January 2022. My Department has written out to all applicants with a valid licence in February this year encouraging them to utilise their licence and I would encourage anyone with a valid...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The COFORD Council is a stakeholder platform that provides advice to the Department on the development of the forest sector. The current Council has recently published a number of reports covering areas from forest genetics, timber forecasts to climate change. COFORD has recently published a series of statements on the importance of forests and wood products for climate change...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The target of 8,000 hectares of new afforestation per year as set out in the Climate Action Plan 2021 includes all of my Department's tree planting measures that are 0.1 hectares or more in size. This includes the small-scale tree planting referred to in the Forestry Licensing Plan 2022 and it is currently intended that this will form part of our delivery on the 8,000 target. As the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (27 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: As the Deputy will be aware, the price of beef, as with any commodity, is a commercial matter. Neither I nor the Department has any role in the determination of commodity prices However, I am, acutely aware of the pressures being faced across the agri-food sector due to the increase in input costs. Since the invasion of Ukraine, I have taken a proactive approach to dealing with the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (27 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: As you know, following a public consultation process in which over 900 submissions were received, the then Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine announced in December 2018 that vessels over 18m would be excluded from trawling in inshore waters inside the six nautical mile zone and the baselines from 1 January 2020. A transition period of three years for vessels over 18m targeting sprat...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Chair and members of the committee. I welcome this opportunity to present the SIA to the committee today. As in previous years, a rigorous assessment has been undertaken to examine the implications for Ireland of the potential fishing opportunities for the year ahead. The past few years, as we know, have been particularly challenging for our fishing industry. In addition to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The energy bills apply to the fishing industry but it is to gas and electricity. For the processing sector, for example, I made sure it was eligible for the schemes in place. In relation to fishing boats themselves, they use marine gas oil so the measure I have had in place for them has been that second month's tie-up scheme, which has delivered €12 million to support the sector...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The behaviour by members of the coastal states structure has been disgraceful, setting unilateral targets which in no way resemble the capacity of the stock to be fished. Some are setting massively high stocks, saying they are going to fish them and going off and trying to do that. They are not coming to an agreement, which is about sustainably managing the stock. For example, mackerel...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: He has made his views strongly on it too but Dr. Beamish will elaborate on that point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: A very important process is under way to get to a stage where we are fishing all stocks at maximum sustainable yield and where we do not see them depleted and overfished and a situation where they cannot be fished or are disappearing. The science and its assessment of them is central to that. I will ask Dr. Kelly, our scientific expert in the Marine Institute, who knows a hell of a lot more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The economic and social impact assessment being put together at the moment is based on the scientific advice because we do not have the total allowable catch agreements at Commission level yet. The negotiations with the UK have not commenced yet. As Minister, my objective in how the process evolves is to ensure we get the best possible outcome and that we have a situation where the economic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputy Mac Lochlainn for his questions. First, on the size of our fishing or processing industry, as I outlined to Deputy Michael Collins earlier on, the percentages of each of the stocks were set in the Common Fisheries Policy and the allocation key back in the early 1980s. That position had remained constant since then until the impact of Brexit. If one looks at what we catch in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: It is not tolerable and it is not being tolerated. It must change. Just being outraged does not change it. We have to work hard to change it. It speaks to how complicated and challenging it is to get agreement at international level on how fisheries are managed. If people do not come together and agree on managing fisheries sustainably there is only one inevitable result, which is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I will ask Ciaran Kelly of the Marine Institute to give his perspective on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: It is very challenging. The capacity to force an outcome is limited. It does require people to engage and agree. Whenever we are involved in international negotiations, that is what is required. As Dr. Kelly said, if people do not agree and if everybody does not take a responsible approach, the result is inevitable and nobody wins. There is a saying that an eye for an eye leaves everyone...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The fishers themselves had asked for those schemes. Almost all of them have availed of it in the whitefish sector. As the Senator says, they have found it to have made a positive contribution. It has made fishing and going to sea more economically viable because it has made more quota available to those who are at sea while those who are tied up for one month are able to avail of an income...