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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (7 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Animal welfare is a key priority for my Department and considerable funding is provided to support, eligible, animal welfare charities, nationwide, through the annual Animal Welfare Grant Programme, which is administered by my Department. Grants are to support operational activities of such organisations and are not for capital or infrastructural purposes. As work on the 2024 Animal Welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (7 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department is committed to ensuring that a highly skilled, motivated and efficient workforce is in place to meet on-going business needs. Workforce planning is a key tool in enabling my Department to forecast its current and future staffing needs. As a management function, it drives the full range of HR activities including recruitment, deployment, performance, learning and development....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calafoirt agus Céanna (7 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Mar is eol don Teachta, cuireadh tús leis an tionscadal chun le Cé Dhomhain a thógáil in Ionad Iascaigh Cuain Ros an Mhíl i mí Eanáir 2023 agus bhí sé ag dul ar aghaidh mar ba cheart. Bhí an cead pleanála a deonaíodh in 2018 le dul in éag i mí Iúil 2023, i.e. sula mbeadh na hoibreacha críochnaithe. D'ullmhaigh...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calafoirt agus Céanna (7 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I mí na Samhna 2021 cheadaigh Comhairle Contae na Gaillimhe pleanáil do mo Roinn chun síneadh a chur leis an mbeart feistithe ag an gCaladh Bád ag Ionad Iascaigh Cuain Ros an Mhíl agus chun carrchlós agus bonneagar coimhdeach a fhorbairt ann. Tá na hoibreacha ar tí a gcríochnaithe chun foirgneamh seirbhísí leasa a thógáil...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Passports (7 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) is a recognised breed society in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/1012 and approved to manage the breeding books for the Irish Sport Horse, Irish Sport Pony, Irish Draught, Irish Cob and Irish Partbred Cob. As part of this recognition, they are authorised to issue identification documents, i.e. passports, for these breeds where breeders apply to enter their...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (7 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Based on records held by the relevant District Veterinary Office, when Nitrates calculations are being finalised after year-end, an allowance is made for herds restricted due to positive TB. The allowance is granted for the number of days the herd is restricted as number of animals in the herd during this period is not fully within the farmer’s control. The allowance is calculated up...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (7 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Achieving a reduction of the regulatory burden and reducing any unnecessary paperwork for farmers has been a key objective of mine at European level. There is no denying that the New Delivery Model for the CAP Strategic Plan (CSP) has added complexity for farmers, and, in discussions at the Council of Agriculture and Fisheries Ministers, I have consistently called for the EU to embrace...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (7 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The tables below set out the amounts of funding provided to Longford and Westmeath County Councils, for the control of horses, in each of the first six months for the period 2019 – 2024. Longford County Council 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 January €400.00 €0.00 €0.00 ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (7 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I am providing a range of supports to the Irish mushroom sector, an important sector that makes a significant contribution to the rural economy. I recently announced the opening of the 2025 Scheme of Investment Aid for the Development of the Commercial Horticulture Sector which provides grant aid towards capital investments in specialised plant and equipment including renewable energy,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Agreements (7 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The European Commission reached political agreement in its trade negotiations with the Mercosur countries in June 2019. Ireland and other EU Member States raised concerns regarding the trade and sustainability commitments in the Agreement. As a response to those concerns, the European Commission commenced a process with Mercosur in 2023 on a joint legal instrument addressing sustainability...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (7 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The table below sets out the amounts of funding provided to Kerry Council, for the control of horses, for the period 2019 – 2024. Kerry County Council 2019 €5,260.00 2020 €2,300.00 2021 €575.00 2022 €750.00 2023 €450.00 ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (7 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Under the Control of Horses Act 1996, local authorities may take a range of actions in relation to equines including prohibiting horses in certain areas, the issuing of licences and the seizure of horses in contravention of the Act. These powers can be used in respect of straying horses, which includes horses put on land without the owner’s permission, including public land. Local...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (7 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The responsibility for the licencing of commercial draft net fishing comes under the remit of Inland Fisheries Ireland. As such any queries regarding grant aid available to draft net licence holders should be addressed to Inland Fisheries Ireland, which is under the aegis of my colleague at the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, Minister Eamon Ryan TD. My...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (7 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Issues relating to the ownership of private property are subject to very significant and complex legal, constitutional and policy considerations. Any statutory limitations on the sale of farmland would be subject to such all of these considerations. For example, from a policy perspective, limitations on the sale of farmland land for non-farming purposes , could reduce the availability of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (7 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Of the 5,664 Tranche 1 ACRES participants in county Mayo, 5,190 have had their 2023 payment claim fully processed. Work is continuing on the processing of the remaining 474 cases. GLAS payments are also continuing to issue. At this point, 4,840 payment claims of Mayo participants have been fully processed for the final year of the scheme, while 157 payment claims remain to be processed....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (6 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 110 and 111 together. My Department is the Competent Authority in Ireland with responsibility for pesticides (plant protection products and biocides). This includes responsibility for policy and implementation of controls regarding the placing on the market and use of pesticides, including Regulation (EC) No. 1107/2009. Pesticides are regulated under EU...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (6 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Market volatility arises from a variety of factors, including geo-political and weather events. In the agriculture sector, we have just been through a period of higher input costs and falling output prices, exacerbated by challenging weather conditions. However, the outlook is now more positive, as input costs have fallen by 7% in the year to the end of August, with output prices up by 18% in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Capital Expenditure Programme (6 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Scheme provides grants to farmers to build and/or improve a specified range of farm buildings and equipment on their holdings. To date, 830 farmers in counties Louth and Meath have received €12,924,791.84 in grant aid since 2020, with payments continuing to issue on a weekly basis. As the Herd number identifies holdings at a county level it...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (6 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The implementation of the Bovine TB Eradication Strategy 2021-2030 is overseen by the Bovine TB Stakeholders Forum along with support from three working groups – a Scientific group, an Implementation Working Group and a Finance Group to ensure all aspects of the Strategy are addressed. The Bovine TB Stakeholders Forum and its working groups comprise representatives from across the...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: We have said that as well, though. That structure is in place. The default is that if there is an overpayment on a farmer's account from one scheme, it is taken off another. The structure I put in place was that any farmers who had overpayments could ask for it to be attached to their ACRES. Therefore, it will come out of their next ACRES payment or the one after that. It is ring-fenced....