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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: In October 2019, Coillte and Bord na Móna announced a new initiative to plant approximately 4 million native trees across 1500 hectares of Bord na Móna land that is no longer used for peat production. Bord na Móna formally ended all peat harvesting on its lands by the end of 2019. As a result of this cessation in peat harvesting, industrial cutover peatlands are becoming...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I have introduced some changes to TAMS under the TAMs 3 scheme to better align it with overall agriculture and environmental priorities. For applications under the Dairy Equipment Capital Investment Scheme, Women Farmers Capital Investment Scheme and Organic Capital Investment Scheme, applicants may apply for up to 10 milking units in a herringbone parlour, or one robotic milking machine, if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Services (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I am satisfied that the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feeds and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023 does not require veterinary pharmacists to carry out any activity that prevents them from working in accordance with the regulatory requirements for registered pharmacists and retail pharmacy businesses or working within the PSI Code of Conduct for Pharmacists.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Services (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) officials have consulted extensively with stakeholders on the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feeds and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023, including meeting with officials from the Department of Health. This is an important piece of legislation and I wanted to make sure that all relevant stakeholders and groups were actively...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The expenditure under the Forestry Budget for 2022 is shown in the table below: - Budget Allocation Spend 2022 Saving Capital €96,038,000 €70,461,907 €25,576,093 Current €4,043,000 €3,623,981 €419,019 Total ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The objective of the Beef Exceptional Aid Measure (BEAM) was to provide temporary exceptional adjustment aid to farmers in the beef sector in Ireland. The granting of €50 million in EU aid was subject to the conditions set out in EU Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1132. One of the conditions of the BEAM scheme under which funding was provided by the EU was that there had...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Advertising (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) provides public information about a wide range of schemes, services and policies. Advertising is one of the channels used to communicate this information. In the period from 1st January 2022 to 31st January 2023, DAFM incurred expenditure of €843,958.56. This includes expenditure related to a farm safety awareness campaign and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department provides public information about a wide range of schemes, services and policies. I wish to advise the Deputy that the number of staff currently employed in the Communications Division of my Department is set out in the table below. The staffing costs for 2022 and 2023 are in line with the salary scales for the respective civil service grades, which are published by the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Terms and Conditions of the ACRES Scheme require the engagement of an approved ACRES Advisor to prepare and submit the ACRES application, as all applications have to prepared and completed by an approved ACRES Advisor via the Department’s online system and accompanied by a Farm Sustainability Plan. The engagement of an approved ACRES Advisor by a farmer for the purpose of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Iadvise the Deputy that a parcel of land in the townland of Meanus comprising 2.16 hectares was sold by the former Irish Land Commission (ILC) to trustees, to be held subject to the trusts of a Scheme framed and approved under Sections 4 and 20 of the Irish land Acts 1903. A Purchase Agreement was signed in May 1936 and the land was vested by the former ILC in these trustees in October 1948...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Sheep Improvement Scheme (SIS) is funded under Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027. It provides support to sheep farmers for carrying out actions that improve animal health and welfare in the sheep sector and builds on the progress made by the Sheep Welfare Scheme (SWS). The scheme opened for applications in November 2022 and closed on 9th January 2023. I am delighted with the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The fishing effort regime, or kilowatt system, is set down for Western Waters under EU legislation (Council Regulation (EC) No 1954/2003and Council Regulation (EC) No 1415/2004). The effort-based management system was introduced to ensure that there was no increase in the overall levels of fishing effort from the levels in the preceding years and supports the total allowable catch (TAC) and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ukraine War (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine provided support of €750,000 in December 2022 for a one-year project administered by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The project will support highly vulnerable small-holder farmers and households in rural areas at the frontline of the illegal Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine, where the poultry...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Legal Cases (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I can confirm for the Deputy that there have been no discrimination cases taken and won against my Department in the past ten years.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (22 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below. Year 2020 2021 2022 Number of staff at start of year 3,583 3,749 3,874 Number of staff at end of year 3,749 3,874 3,922 Number of staff who left during year 153 239 289 ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Dogs (22 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The working group on the control of dogs is comprised of officials from my Department, the Department of Rural and Community Development and representatives of the County and City Managers Association (CCMA), including representatives of local authority dog wardens and local authority veterinary inspectors, and representatives of An Garda Síochána. The group includes three qualified...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (22 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has communicated directly with all herd owners in recent months in relation to the new EU Animal Health Law testing requirements in relation to TB. In addition it has contributed to several media articles in recent months and has met with all the representative groups of mart managers to discuss the implementation of these new requirements....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (22 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: As previously outlined to the Deputy in my response of 18th January, I can confirm that an ACRES application was submitted on behalf of the person named. The scheme has proven to be hugely successful with farmers very keen to join. There were over 46,000 applications made before the deadline in December. I am delighted to see such a strong response to ACRES. This shows clearly how engaged...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (22 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine continues to issue and accept felling licence applications and has to date this year issued 404 felling licences. Furthermore last year we issued record levels of felling licences at 3,293 for 9.6 million cubic metres of wood. These licences have up to 10 year timelines and are being used by forest owners providing work for forestry...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (22 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Minister of State Hackett and I secured funding of over €1.3 billion for the next Forestry programme 2023-2027, which will support the best-funded Forestry Programme to date in Ireland. I am acutely aware of the issues currently facing forestry companies in terms of their financial situation pending the securing of State Aid approval from the Commission. Securing that State Aid...