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Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: There are 60% increases in premiums. The Minister of State, Senator Hackett, has done this. In the outgoing programmes there are premiums for only 15 years if one is a farmer or a non-farmer. We have increased it for farmers from 15 years to 20 years.

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Farmers now will get a one third extra premium than a non-farmer and can claim their basic payment scheme entitlements under that land too, which a non-farmer cannot do. This is what we have run out. The annual premium per hectare for native trees is €1,137 under the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, and the Government's programme.

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: This is €1,137 for 20 years.

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: It is unprecedented.

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Our message to the farmers across the country is that we want farmers to consider----

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: -----whether they can incorporate some forestry into their land and whether they can make income from that. Deputy Healy-Rae is shrewd and has a good eye for enterprise whenever he sees it. I hold out that whenever that forestry programme was announced the Deputy would have been looking at it in good detail to see if there was an opportunity in there with regard to where-----

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Fair play that it was 25 years ago. If it made sense 25 years ago then I am sure that Deputy Healy-Rae knows better than anyone that it makes even more sense now and that it pays even better now. For every farmer that income will be tax free.

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Our whole message to farmers is-----

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Our whole message to farmers is that we are backing them and we are providing options. We are providing really good income. If a farmer has an acre or two, or a hectare or two, on the farm, what a farmer could bring in through forestry makes a hell of a lot of sense.

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: It is all about backing farmers. That forestry programme is the best that has been introduced in the State. It will really see a significant change. We have now moved out of the crisis situation and are now getting into an equilibrium. We are driving down that backlog. It is about driving that along and backing farmers to do it, while putting farmers at the centre. Coillte also has a...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The third part of the motion is that we need to have good, strong licensing ambition in this current year of 2023 to back up the industry and-----

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: -----that is what we are doing. Last year we licensed twice as much felling as was harvested the year before. We are doing everything we can to back farmers to do forestry. We are backing the country to help meet its climate emissions plans through forestry-----

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: -----putting farmers very much at the centre of it and giving farmers the 20-year premiums versus the 15 years, which was there for others, giving them a one third advantage for premiums over anybody else, which had not been there before. I welcome the strong sentiment from many Deputies across the floor tonight in respect of trying to improve our afforestation in the years ahead. I look...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (18 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1737 and 1738 together. There are a wide variety of items available under the suite of seven measures under the Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS) II. To date, total expenditure under the seven measures of the TAMS II, including transitional expenditure, is €390m with commitments of an additional €117m made to scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Data (18 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Data for imports is currently available for 2022 up to the end of September. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) uses the Trade Control and Expert System (TRACES) system to record sheep movements in terms of both imports and exports for the purposes of slaughter, breeding and fattening. Up to the end of September 2022 a total of 291,966 sheep were imported from the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (18 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The intra-EU movement of animals is recorded on the Trade Control and Expert System (TRACES), which is the EU-wide online management tool for all sanitary and phytosanitary requirements on intra-EU trade and importation of animals, semen and embryo, food, feed and plants. My Department uses the TRACES system for official certification of sheep movements in terms of both imports and exports...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (18 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The exportation of slurry from holdings is facilitated and managed by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine online movement system. On an annual basis, farmers availing of the facility to export slurry must submit records online to DAFM by 31December each year and farmers operating in Derogation must do so by 31stOctober. As part of Ireland's 5thNitrates Action Programme review...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inshore Fisheries (18 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: In December 2018, following a public consultation process in which over 900 submissions were received, as Minister you announced that vessels over 18m will 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 was allowed to enable adjustment for these...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (18 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy may be aware that all animals entering Ireland are subject to EU sanitary requirements. These requirements are in place to reduce the risk of importation and spread disease. The requirements for animals generally to enter Ireland are outlined in the EU Animal Health Law, Regulation (EU) 429/2016. The specific requirements for a pet (dog, cat ferret) to enter Ireland are outlined in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (18 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1744, 1745, 1746, 1748, 1793 and 1794 together. There are a variety of reasons as to why there has been a gradual decline in afforestation rates in recent years. Since the first finding of ash dieback disease in Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has provided support totalling over €7 million to owners of ash plantations...