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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (20 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Animal welfare is a key priority for the Department and considerable resources and funding are provided to support animal welfare charities organisations involved in the care, rescuing and rehoming animals through my Department's annual Animal Welfare Grants Programme. In December, 2023 I announced record funding of €6 million to 101 animal welfare charities. Awards are made on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (20 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Since being introduced as a pilot scheme in 2021, the Straw Incorporation Measure (SIM) has proved popular with tillage farmers. It is an important support measure under the CAP Strategic Plan 2023 – 2027 and contributes to meeting our climate and sustainability objectives. Government policy ambition aims to grow the tillage sector in line with targets under the Climate Action Plan and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department does not hold information on what forests have power lines running through them. As set out in my Department's Forestry Standards Manual, each forest owner is responsible for cutting or lopping trees in their forest to ensure that trees are not growing to a height of more than 3m above the ground in ESB corridors. The landowner is also responsible for keeping a minimum corridor...

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank everyone for their contributions this evening. I am certainly happy to have this debate any time the Dáil seeks time and for as long as is necessary. If the Business Committee wanted to allocate more time to everyone and more time for answers, I would be delighted because there is more nonsense spewed on social media and more misinformation on the fishing sector than any other....

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: On the six-mile review, there is an eight-week consultation period. I hope to have the document finalised and the policy published by the final quarter of this year. By the autumn of this year, I want this process concluded and what has been raised in consultation fully considered and brought into play. The former Minister, Deputy Creed, did really good work on this. It was struck down by...

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The town of Killybegs, which Deputy Pringle mentioned, has probably been impacted by Brexit more than anywhere else in Europe. The sector most affected by Brexit is the fisheries sector, and Killybegs, being the fisheries capital of this country, has therefore suffered the biggest impact in terms of quota, etc. I remember being on a debate on Highland Radio with Deputy Pringle, whose...

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The town most impacted by Brexit in Ireland, if not Europe, is Killybegs. With regard to Brexit adjustment reserve funding, I put €33 million into Killybegs over the past two years through various schemes. The processing sector in Killybegs alone got €12 million in grants. Recently, €8 million was made available for the pelagic liquidity aid scheme. Over the three...

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: It is not a simple answer.

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: If the Deputy was aware of the way that European fisheries work, he would know it is not a simple answer-----

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: -----because things can be agreed at a European level by qualified majority voting, QMV.

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Nobody could tell the Deputy "Yes" or "No". I can, however, tell him that the approach I have taken as Minister is the reason that no mandate has been agreed at European level in respect of any engagement with Iceland. While other member states could vote us down, should they decide to, and go for a qualified majority vote, they are respecting the position I am taking at European level and...

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: It is 25% of that total allowable catch, TAC, going forward on an annual basis.

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Danish minister made a number of offers in advance previous to that, which did not hold any water. I refuted them as not cutting the mustard. I kept working on this until I got a deal which would actually work and deliver and which we did deliver.

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: What we have achieved-----

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: One of the Danish offers was 3,000 tonnes of mackerel for two different years-----

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: -----which I refused and blew out of the water because it would simply not cut the mustard. After refusing a number of deals, I got a much better one. Incidentally when I presented it to your own colleague, Patrick Murphy, I can recall him saying that for the first time he had some hope for our fishing sector because of the progress made with this deal. It was welcomed by him at that point...

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: No.

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: No, it is simply a sign that Deputy Tóibín does not know what he is talking about, and that he does not have an understanding of the issue. I have secured approximately 4,300 additional tonnes of mackerel to be fished in Ireland this year.

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes, this 4,300 tonnes will be fished this year because of the deal I secured at the December Council. That involves a 40% allocation of the TAC from last year, as well as a 30% allocation this year, both of those being fished this year. Going forward, in the long term, there will be a 25% allocation which we secured. This is now permanently additional to the Irish quota.

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: It will depend on what the quota is in any one year. It was 2,495 tonnes last year and it will be 1,769 tonnes in 2024. This represents a 30% amount, so we are talking in the region of 1,500 tonnes.