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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The legislative powers to tackle the matters mentioned are under the auspices of the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation, together with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission. The Commission, which was established on 31 October 2014, is the statutory body responsible for enforcing consumer protection and competition law in Ireland. Previous legislation, the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Programme (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The main purpose of the proposed legislative amendments is to provide for a points system for masters of fishing vessels for serious infringements of the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy, as required by Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009. The draft amending legislation would resolve some typographical errors in the Principal Act of 2006 and introduce other miscellaneous and technical...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Marketing Programme (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: Bord Bia is the state agency responsible of the marketing and promotion of Irish food and drinks worldwide, including suckler beef. Its remit involves the promotion of Irish agricultural products across the world, especially those covered by national quality schemes such as the Quality Assurance Scheme, via trade fairs, public relations activities, publications & presentations with...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: Discussions take place with a number of parties in the run up to December Fisheries Council including high level meetings with the Commission, the Presidency and other Member States as part of the preparation for the Council as well as a number of important technical meetings. These meetings allow my officials to understand the priorities of other Member States and also gauge where Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted two applications for felling licences in June, 2019 The applicant has recently been requested to provide a harvest plan for one of the applications referenced, so no further processing on this application can take place until that is received. Both applications will be fully assessed under new Appropriate Assessment procedures which have been introduced on foot...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: Applications for the Afforestation Grant and Premium Scheme for the reference numbers provided, were submitted by the registered forester and acknowledged in March, 2019.Afforestation licence approvals for both applications issued to the applicant and their registered forester in August. They were both appealed to the Forestry Appeals Committee, which is independent of my Department. The...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry Irregularities (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: In January 2019, one factory was fined for excess carcase trimming of three carcasses. Similar to last year, it is proposed to publish the names of all factories penalised for non-compliance with the regulation in December.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The Deputy's previous questions were understood to have related to digestate and were answered in the context of public and animal health under Regulation 1069/2009. However, I can confirm that separately my Department is conducting an investigation under the Environmental Impact Assessment regulations (SI 456/2011) in County Donegal but cannot comment further while matters are under...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme Data (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The Organic Farming Scheme is one of the most successful schemes under our current Rural Development Programme. A budget of €56m was allocated to fund the Scheme opened during the period 2014 to 2020 which was the largest allocation ever to an Organics support scheme. The Scheme has more than achieved its targets in terms of new land converted and the maintenance of organic land....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry Irregularities (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: In 2018, my Department conducted almost 550 unannounced, on-the-spot inspections in 32 factories on classification and carcase presentation. There were an average of 18 inspections per factory which significantly exceeds the legal minimum requirement of 8 inspections per year.At each inspection, 85 carcases on average are checked. In 2018, non-compliance was identified in 3 factories where...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: My Department is obliged in its role as competent authority under EU Regulation 1379/2013 on the Common Organisation of the Market in Fishery and Aquaculture products (CMO) to ensure that an application for recognition as a fisheries or aquaculture Producer Organisation complies with the requirements of Article 14 of the CMO Regulation. One of those requirements set out in paragraph 1(b) of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (14 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The information requested by the Deputy is being compiled and will be forwarded to him as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Environmental Efficiency Scheme Applications (14 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The Beef Environmental Efficiency Pilot scheme (BEEP) aims to further increase economic and environmental efficiency in the suckler herd through collation of better quality data on herd performance which helps to support decision making on the farm. BEEP targets the weaning efficiency of suckler cows and calves through the collection of live weights of cows and progeny in the herd...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Horses (14 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The Control of Horses Act 1996, provides the necessary powers to Local Authorities to deal with stray and abandoned horses. The Act contains provisions for the licencing and identification of horses and was introduced to address the issues caused by stray and wandering horses due to public safety concerns.  The primary purpose of the Act was to address the dangerous and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Activities (14 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: Teagasc operates as a non-commercial state agency under the aegis of my Department.  I understand that Teagasc engages in on-going consultation with stakeholders through a network of consultative committees and through input from stakeholder representatives on the Teagasc Authority. I have asked Teagasc to provide further information directly to the Deputy on the level of engagement...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (13 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The objective of the Beef Exceptional Aid Measure (BEAM) is to provide temporary exceptional adjustment aid to farmers in the beef sector in Ireland subject to the conditions set out in EU Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1132.  Applications for BEAM were accepted from 19th August to 20th September 2019. 34,517 approval letters issued to eligible BEAM...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (13 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted a 2019 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) applicaiton on 3 May 2019 in which he declared a share on two commonages in County Kerry.  An over claim has occurred on one of the commonages which my Department is currently reviewing. The person named has been requested to submit evidence of his entitlement to claim on this commonage and once this...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Irish National Stud (13 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The Irish National Stud Company is a commercial State Body. I last met the Chair of the Irish National Stud, on Tuesday 11th April 2017. The items discussed during the meeting included an update on the financial performance of the stud, the establishment of a new visitor experience and the setting up of a subsidiary company. I also met both the Chair...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Crop Losses (13 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: As the Deputy will be aware, extreme weather conditions in September 2016 adversely impacted the harvesting of tillage crops. I launched the Weather Related Crop Damage Measure to provide financial assistance to farmers in approved cases as a contribution towards the direct losses arising from damage to spring barley, spring wheat, spring oats and spring oilseed...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (13 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted an application for the 2019 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) and Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) Scheme on 14 May 2019. In relation to the BPS application, my Department has no record of the person named holding any BPS entitlements which could form the basis for payment under the 2019 BPS.  In relation to the ANC application, the...