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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Is it not assumed that all farmers benefit from the supports available to agriculture in one way or another? Is it not unwise to give the impression that we are anti-profit? I do not know anybody who works for nothing. If the Deputy opposite is suggesting that would be a good thing and beneficial to the agrifood sector in this country, there is a clear and unequivocal answer to that. All...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The dairy sector in this country is based on the co-op structure. Given the socialist utopia Deputy Murphy is looking for, I would have thought he would be a bit more supportive of the sector given that it is farmers co-operating for the benefit of farmers. If he was to spend a bit more time meeting a few farmers or listening, looking and interrogating the statistics rather than trying to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Martin Heydon: Rural Ireland.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: Big industry has been lobbying the Minister, as exposed by what has been discovered by DeSmog.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Martin Heydon: Keep painting that picture, Paul. It is rubbish.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (26 Sep 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I appreciate the clarification on the information the Minister of State has provided. I agree that there does need to be an interdepartmental action on this. As far as the IFA is concerned, the solution or the pathway is there. The local authority would be the best placed body to remove the roadside ash trees in a safe manner. That is taking everybody's best interests into consideration....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (26 Sep 2024)

Claire Kerrane: I will take a supplementary question from Deputy Durkan.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (26 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Following up on the last line of questions, what is the extent to which research continues to take place in order to establish the effect on other species or a variation of the disease affecting other species? Regarding the various ash species, for example, American ash, has that species been affected to the same extent? From casual observation, it does not look like as though it has. This...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (26 Sep 2024)

Pippa Hackett: I thank both Deputies. I am open to correction on this but I think species like mountain ash do not seem to be as impacted but certainly it has impacted those plantations and also our native species, which have been here for centuries. It is definitely having an impact but some trees are showing signs of more resilience to it. Teagasc is very active in research in this space. It is trying...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Fisheries Protection

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 62. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1260 of 9 September 2024, the status of the public consultation on a review of trawling activity inside the six-nautical-mile zone which closed on 12 April 2024; if the submissions have now been analysed; the timeline for publication of a report of the public consultation; when a decision will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister and I are more than familiar with this issue, so we might not bother with the history of it. My question is very specific. It relates to trawling inside the six-nautical-mile zone by vessels more than 18 m long. We know there is a long history here so my question is specific. I know the communication period for submissions has closed. I know there were an extraordinary...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: As the Deputy pointed out, I held a public consultation on the review of trawling activity inside the six-nautical-mile zone and the baselines. The consultation took place over eight weeks and closed on 12 April. The purpose of this consultation was to invite stakeholders and interested parties to advise me of their views on any changes to policy within the scope of the review. A large...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I do not doubt that at all but, as the Minister said, in two months it will be six years since the decision was made to bring in this very welcome policy because of unsustainable fishing practices in the six-nautical-mile zone, particularly in respect of sprat. I will not rehearse all of that again but it was urgent enough in December 2018 and here we are, almost six years later, and there...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I am addressing this urgently. As we know, the outcome of the High Court proceedings only came in the second half of last year. I then commenced the process of formulating the new public consultation process as promptly as I could and it opened in April 2024. I want to see this progressed as quickly as possible. We have to be very conscious that we do things in a sure-footed way that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the consultation and the 5,000 submissions but we really need a date for when those submissions will be analysed. I suspect that the vast majority of them are in support of the Government's policy, as were the High Court and the Court of Appeal. Both of them found no difficulties with the policy; it was the consultation. The two gentlemen who brought the first action said it was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I would not want the impression to be given that I have not stepped this out in a prompt fashion. I have done so and am very committed to it. It was not possible for me to take any action until I got the final ruling from the High Court, which was delivered in the second half of last year. It had been in the court system from 2018 until then. I now want to continue as promptly as I can...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (26 Sep 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. I appreciate, and I believe a lot of farmers appreciate, that there has been a huge uptake on ACRES and that this would have caused difficulties. At this point, however, they are frustrated and their patience has waned. I will give a bit of context. I recently met with members of the IFA in my office in Clare. They outlined their full discontent at...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (26 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: There are a number of issues that have to be worked through in cases where people have not been paid yet. As we discussed with Deputy Crowe earlier there are probate issues, for example, which every year hold up a number of payments. The team is working through it with the objective of getting it up to 95% and, as I said previously, 82% had received their full payment at the end of last...