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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: No, because that is where the option is. What the Deputy described is provided for. For example, if an appeals officer makes a decision the appellant does not agree with, because his or her circumstances have changed further or because new evidence has come to light, a further appeal can be made to another appeals officer on the appeals board, or to the same appeals officer, with that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: A judicial review at the High Court is an ultimate option. It is a safeguard for all legal processes, basically. The High Court is the only place where a judicial review can be taken If an appellant chooses this option, it would be a judicial review of the process, rather than a further appeal on a fact as such. It would review whether the process was fair or not. We cannot prevent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes, it would. Those officials make decisions based on the force majeure criteria.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I take the Cathaoirleach's point. As I have said, the key thing we want to ensure is that we have practical farming experience among the membership. On the committee's considerations, it was asked whether this means that farm organisations should get to make nominations. Does allowing farm organisations to nominate members make it more independent? The Cathaoirleach's view is that it may....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I agree with the Cathaoirleach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I am open to that so I will talk to both Whips about how we can do it most efficiently,

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Senator for his support for the Bill. The amendment regarding the 70-year-old age limit is a sort of left-of-field idea I came across. I felt the age limit was not just, so I said the next time I had an opportunity, I would seek to have it amended and I have incorporated that into this. Overall, as I said, the 2018 report gave a strong vote of confidence to the independence...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I look forward to the committee's consideration of that numbers piece. I have something of an open mind on that. The important thing is that it is practical, that it works and that it can be run in a way that works smoothly. The Cathaoirleach is right; the force majeure issue is not a matter for this legislation. It is a question of the definition of force majeure. What appeals officers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: A provision to allow the fair transition of the current workload with the aim of avoiding having two different procedures for review in cases of error fact in law running simultaneously in commencement of these amendments. It will be done by regulation. Sorry, it is in the Bill There is a provision there in the Bill as to how that transition might happen. Any that are in hand will move to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I can confirm that the person named was approved into Tranche 1 of the Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) Co-operation Project Stream, with a contract commencement date of 1 January 2023. As the deputy is aware, I made a decision to issue an interim, nationally funded payment, to farmers affected by ACRES payment delays across ACRES General and Co-operation, at a rate of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department acts as a Paying Agency for a number of EU funds; the vast majority of these funds are programmed in multi annual cycles such as the CAP Strategic Plan and the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) Programme. The CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027 has a budget of €9.8 billion, with €5.97 billion in Pillar 1 for Direct Payments coming from the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I have long supported the cohort of farmers known as the forgotten farmers and have committed to supporting them. My Department developed a preliminary outline of a proposal to provide support to the forgotten farmer group. Work continues on addressing a number of issues, such as the funding required, consistency with public expenditure and state aid considerations before the details...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Question Heading for question(s) 252 (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Last October my Department requested Teagasc to undertake research and provide data regarding bovine nutrient excretion rates. This included consideration of the excretion rate as the young bovine animal grows and consideration of the impact reducing crude protein in concentrates fed to dairy cows will have on the cow's nutrient excretion rate. Teagasc presented their work to the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Afforestation applications received by my Department are reviewed for completeness to ensure they are a valid application which can be progressed to licence decision stage. The licensing process involves careful assessment of applications from a silvicultural, environmental and scheme compliance perspective. Statistics of all licences issued are published weekly on my Departments...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (28 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: On 23 November, my Department advised the farmer in question that a Porcine number does not meet the definition of a herd number, therefore we are unable to link a porcine number to a BISS application. In submitting a BISS 2023 application you declare you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions of the Basic Income Support for Sustainability Scheme. As per the Terms and Conditions to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (28 Feb 2024)

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. In 2018, conditional consent was granted for redevelopment works...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Turf Cutting (28 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The objective of the €1.5 billion ACRES scheme is to improve environmental performance on farmland, including commonage. In this context, my Department is obliged to ensure that the scheme meets its objectives, but also to ensure that applicants are treated fairly when it comes to scoring of environmental performance. The original proposal in relation to the scoring of turbary...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (28 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The table below provides data, extracted from the AIM system, on the breakdown by county of herds with dairy cows and herds with suckler cows. A suckler cow is defined for this purpose as a female bovine who is named as the dam of at least one registered calf and is of a recognised beef breed. County Number of Herds with dairy cows Number of Herds with suckler...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (28 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: An application for participation in the 2023 Basic Income Support for Sustainability Scheme (BISS), Complementary Redistributive Support for Sustainability (CRISS), Areas of Natural Constraints (ANC) and ECO schemes was received from the above named applicant on the 4th April, 2023. Following a review of parcels by Satellite Imagery parcels within this application were identified as...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (28 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: In respect of the animals removed from the named herd under the On Farm Market Valuation Scheme, all animals received their full market value, taking into account both the factory salvage recovered and compensation paid on each animal by my Department. As the herd lost more than 10% of its animals the named herdowner also qualified for payment under the Income Supplement Scheme. The herd...