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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (4 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 736. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the exact date that the details of the new forestry programme will be sent to the European Commission for review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47883/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (4 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 737. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date that his Department will publish a Forestry Licensing Plan for 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47884/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (4 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 738. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of afforestation licences that have been received by his Department that remain to be processed; the length of time that each application has been with his Department in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47885/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (4 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 739. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of licences per scheme type which were applied for before 1 January 2021 that remain to be processed by his Department in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47886/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (4 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 740. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a private forestry association (details supplied) will be invited onto the Forest Policy Group; when such a decision will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47887/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (4 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 768. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if over 30,000 farmers apply for the agri-climate rural environment scheme who are now under CAP and tier one, two and three will all be accepted in cases in which their application is correct; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48621/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the new grant for the refurbishment of old derelict houses will be extended to rural areas given that at present the scheme it is only available in certain towns. [46755/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: First, I welcome the guests. Has any progress been made with the Department over the last few months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: On the medicines.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Has any progress been made on the term "responsible person" that everyone refers to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there going to be any recognition? My understanding is that there would be advice out there that would say that there are openings under the European regulation for the interpretation to be looked at in a way that would accommodate those people. Has there been any breakthrough on this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Did I hear, or was I hearing wrong, that there is some legal challenge being taken against the Department at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Maybe not. It might be just talk. When Mr. Doyle says that the Department needs to look at this and decide, does he know if this decision is expected shortly? How long is a piece of string? When does it all have to be finalised one way or another?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It might be an advantage at the moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In the line of medicines, if there is free trade, is Mr. Carroll also saying that people can get their medicines in the North no problem and shoot across the Border?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Most farmers are dealing with co-operatives and some are dealing with chemists and veterinarians. They will have built up a relationship with all of those people down through the years. These are people whom the farmers have dealt with over a number of years and who nearly know what they need each time. They have experience with it. Each is basically a suitably qualified person. Am I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there a worry among co-ops and, indeed, different pharmacists and so on? Is it a problem, or is there a fear, as this is being put together that vets in the Department and elsewhere will basically have a monopoly? We were all assured at the beginning of this process because we brought up at every debate that we felt it was not a good scenario. It puts a farmer in a fairly awkward...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Carroll said there does not seem to be any clear guidance at the moment with regard to fertiliser. Let us say a person does not get a single farm payment or does not have a herd number. He or she might have a horse or an ass or whatever and might just be farming as a hobby and only be getting a few bags of fertiliser. It is not clear at the moment, from what Mr. Carroll is saying, how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If the Department is hellbent on knowing the amount of fertiliser that is bought in Ireland, it will not be in a position to know that realistically. It will have a fair idea about maybe 90% of it but there could be another 10% it might not know about when, by the way, it is trying to save the world.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The import statistics are there, but Mr. Carroll mentioned a while ago that fertiliser goes up and down across the Border so it is sort of hard to nail it down.