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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024) See 8 other results from this debate

Paul McAuliffe: Has there been any discussion with, for example, the Land Development Agency, LDA, about the disposal of those properties or that land?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...support through our CAP Strategic Plan (CSP) and a range of national taxation measures. The new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) cites generational renewal as one of its nine key objectives. Ireland’s CSP 2023-2027 provides substantial resources to achieving generational renewal and measures include: The Complementary Income Support for Young Farmers (CIS-YF), which has a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...which allow Ireland to determine what rewetting means in practice for Ireland. The Government is confident that the 2030 and 2040 rewetting targets, at a minimum, can be met entirely on State lands. Should the regulation pass at EU level, the Government is committed to ensuring that nature restoration provides additional income streams for landowners and brings benefits to rural...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tree Remediation (25 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...disease progresses nationally roadside ash trees will become an issue of increasing importance. As a matter of law, the care and management of trees adjacent to roads is the responsibility of the landowner on whose land the roadside trees are growing. It is advisable that landowners make themselves aware of the full legal extent of their land ownership and of any obligations arising from...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Aindrias Moynihan: 81. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the area of land where forestry was planted last year; the amount expected to be planted this year; if there are specific measures in place to increase the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18353/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (25 Apr 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 83. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will develop a national land use strategy to address, amongst other things, the concerning lack of land availability for afforestation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18352/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (25 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Jackie Cahill: 96. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if low-intensity farmers who import slurry onto their land could have their calculation based on the preceding year's stocking rate as this would provide clarity to low-intensity farmers as to the quantity of slurry they could import for the coming year and considering this would greatly encourage the importation of slurry onto...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Bernard Durkan: 98. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which efforts are being made to manage grasslands and tillage lands, given the sharp increase in rainfall; if consideration will be given to adequate drainage as opposed to allowing widespread flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18340/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (25 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Cathal Crowe: 103. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, in light of extreme weather patterns in recent years and in particular the flooding of lands and high water table, he will consider providing a grant scheme to farmers to develop land drains on their boundaries. [18374/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (25 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Nitrates Directive (Council Directive 91/676/EEC, as amended) includes a legal provision whereby a Member State can apply for a derogation to facilitate the application of livestock manure to land beyond 170 kg Nitrogen/hectare. Such a derogation must be based on strict scientific criteria and must not prejudice achievement of the Nitrates Directive's objectives. There are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I recognize that Ireland's existing commercial forest estate is an important and expanding supply of timber for the construction sector with significant amounts of timber exported to the UK and abroad. The recent COFORD "All Island Roundwood Production Forecast" predicts that the annual potential supply of roundwood timber will increase from around 5.6 million in 2023 to 7.9 million cubic...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Policy (25 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...(NASCO) and the Signpost Farms, aims to improve the measurement of carbon sequestration and focuses on improving estimation of carbon sequestration, including through hedgerows and on farm woodland. The Deputy will be aware that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible for the reporting of emissions and removals associated with land use activities on an annual basis to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Properties (25 Apr 2024)

Michael McGrath: ...which properties act/acted as security. NAMA’s portfolio has been significantly deleveraged and its remaining secured property portfolio is largely concentrated in the residential development land sector and not individual property units. NARPS (National Asset Residential Property Services) is a NAMA subsidiary which was established to expedite social housing delivery. NARPS...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (25 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: While Local authorities are empowered under a number of statutes to acquire land, by agreement or compulsorily, for the purposes of performing any of its functions, the number of derelict sites acquired within their functional area under the provisions of the Derelict Sites Act 1990 (the Act) are submitted to my Department as part of the annual return on the operation of the Act. The number...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (25 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the NPWS branch of his Department applies for and receives any annual grants or Common Agricultural Payments on State owned land from the Department of Agriculture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18636/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...plays its role in meeting the national climate targets by 2030 and 2050, while continuing to sustainably produce food and feed. Indeed, the Food Vision 2030 Strategy sets out a pathway for Ireland to become a world leader in Sustainable Food Systems over the next decade. While the emissions targets for agriculture are particularly challenging, the Climate Action Plan includes a range...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Apr 2024)

...: I thank the Cathaoirleach and members. It is my honour and privilege to represent Firhouse-Bohernabreena in South County Dublin, where I was co-opted in 2022. I have served as chair of the land use planning and transportation strategic policy committee, on the corporate policy group, as local area chair, and as a member of the east midlands regional assembly. On my first day in...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024) See 14 other results from this debate

Charlie McConalogue: ...also want to make sure that our tillage sector will grow into the future. We want the sector to reach 400,000 ha by the end of this decade. There was some slippage, both last year and into this year, in terms of the amount of land under tillage. After having made progress through the tillage incentive scheme that we ran for two years, the different things that hare happening are putting...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (24 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...This has had a knock-on effect on feed costs. Milk yields and solids are back, affecting cashflow on some dairy farms. Wet soil conditions have also made it very difficult for machinery to travel on land which has delayed slurry and chemical fertiliser applications. On tillage farms the weather has had a significant impact on spring planting and on the management of winter crops....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Frank Feighan: ...address the fodder crisis which has put farmers under pressure. We need to do more. We need to come up with a voucher scheme because farmers, certainly those in the north west who are on marginal land, are really feeling the pain and we need to assist them as quickly as possible.