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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Advance payments to organic farmers commenced on 7th December 2023. To date, approximately 97% of Organic Farming Scheme participants have received advance payments. My Department is working to finalise payments for the remaining 3% of participants. The majority of these payments, including in respect of this case, will issue within the next 3 weeks.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fuel Prices (23 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Both I and the Government are acutely aware of the cost and inflation challenges faced since Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine. These have affected all sectors of the economy and during this time, I announced a number of specific measures to assist the agri-food sector. These included targeted measures that helped Irish farmers at a time of escalating costs. Energy and fuel costs have...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (23 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I am acutely aware of the current pressures being experienced by farmers because of the recent exceptional and prolonged wet weather. In responding to these concerns, I have taken several steps to try and minimise the effects of the current pressures facing the farming community. I requested that the National Fodder and Feed Security Committee be re-convened to establish the most up to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (23 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Helvick Pier is the responsibility of Waterford City and County Council. The responsibility for the development and maintenance of local authority owned piers, harbours and slipways rests with each local authority in the first instance. The primary governance role for local authorities rests with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and any wider funding issues for local...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishery Harbour Centres (23 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department owns, operates and maintains six designated State-owned Fishery Harbour Centres, located at Castletownbere, An Daingean, Dunmore East, Howth, Killybegs and Ros An Mhíl under statute. In addition, my Department also has responsibility for the upkeep and maintenance of North Harbour at Cape Clear, as well as the maintenance of a small number of specific piers, lights and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Foreshore Issues (23 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The operator of the site the Deputy refers to was issued with an aquaculture licence by the Aquaculture Licence Appeals Board (ALAB) on 26 January 2023 “for the cultivation of Native and Pacific Oyster on a site...”. The holder of an aquaculture licence also requires a Foreshore Licence. My Department is currently processing a Foreshore Licence for this site. All...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: A detailed Ash Dieback action plan is being prepared by Minister of State, Senator Pippa Hackett and is due to be submitted to Cabinet over the coming weeks. This will outline comprehensive actions by my Department to deal with the issue of ash dieback. Detailed deliberations are taking place to ensure an efficient, appropriate and proportionate response. As part of the Forest Strategy...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: As per the answer provided to Dáil question 931 on 9 April 2024, as regards the felling license application referred to (TFL00162718), my Department continues to engage proactively with the applicant and his representatives. This is a very complex location with a number of ecological concerns which must be carefully considered. There have been a number of changes made to the initial...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Apr 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. Incomplete applications can be received but are not counted as valid until they are reviewed for completeness and registered. My Department publishes weekly statistics of all licences issued, including valid...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The new Forestry Programme 2023-2027 aims to encourage a substantial increase in afforestation by offering attractive and diverse options for planting, especially for farmers. This government has committed €1.3 billion to the Programme in order to support our national ambition of 8,000 hectares of afforestation per year. The new Afforestation Scheme offers landowners a choice of 12...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (23 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The responsibility for sea trout conservation comes within the remit of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council (as amended) on the conservation of fisheries resources and the protection of marine ecosystems through technical measures (the Technical Measures Regulation) sets out the rules on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (23 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The minimum mesh size requirements for different gear types are set out in Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council (as amended) on the conservation of fisheries resources and the protection of marine ecosystems through technical measures, also known as the Technical Measures Regulation. Technical measures are rules on how, where and when fishers may fish and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (23 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The table below provides an overview on the yearly pay costs, based on the midpoints of individual salary scales, including travel and subsistence and overtime, of the three forestry divisions in my Department for the years in question. For this reason, the total yearly cost for 2022 and 2023 as well as the cost up to 31 March 2024 is as follows: Year Overall total cost...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Promotion (18 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Geographical Indications identify a product whose quality, reputation or other characteristics are linked to its geographical origin. My Department, as the Competent Authority for Protected Geographical Indications (PGI), checks PGI applications to ensure that the application and product specification are compliant with the relevant European Commission Regulations governing the scheme. ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (18 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The objective of the Solar Capital Investment Scheme, which is a measure in TAMS 3, is to encourage on-farm renewable technology uptake and to lower the energy costs at farm level. The electricity consumption of the dwelling house can be included on the solar survey as part of the holding for sizing the Solar PV when submitting the TAMS application. Issues relating to the linking of farm...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (18 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: There have been no confirmed detections of Fireblight Erwinia amylovora to date in 2024.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (18 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The person named submitted a payment claim for grant aid under the Lower Emissions Slurry Spreading Scheme on 25th March 2024. My Department is currently focusing on the issuing of approvals. It is expected that the processing of payments will commence once the issuing of approvals in respect of applications on hand has been completed.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tillage Sector (17 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Annually farmers are required to submit an application in support of area-based payments such as the Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS), Complementary Redistributive Income Support for Sustainability (CRISS) and other associated area-based schemes such as Protein Aid and the ECO scheme. In 2023, a total of 126,429 area-based applications were received by my Department. On...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (17 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: A total of 889 applications were received from 770 farmers under the first two tranches of the Tillage Capital Investment Scheme, which opened in May last year. These applicants had a total land area of 93,617 hectares, with an average farm size of 122 hectares. It should be noted that applicants are permitted to submit multiple applications under the scheme. For example, a tillage...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (17 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Tillage Incentive Scheme (TIS) is a support Measure for farmers to incentivise the increase in the eligible tillage crop area in order to assist in reducing the dependency on imported feed material. The Scheme is funded from a National Exchequer allocation to the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine provided to offset some of the negative impacts of the Russian invasion of...