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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Invasive Species Policy (31 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 119 and 123 together. Under my Department’s Plant Health and Biosecurity Strategy 2020-2025 my Department is committed to the establishment of a Forest Health Stakeholders’ Engagement Group which will provide the mechanism for direct stakeholder engagement with my Department on forest health issues including bark-beetles. It is important that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tree Remediation (31 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 120 and 121 together. I am aware that as ash dieback disease progresses nationally and within individual ash plantations, the potential health and safety risks associated with forest plantations, roadside and parkland ash trees will become an issue of increasing importance for landowners, workers and visitors. My Department does not have responsibility...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Invasive Species Policy (31 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department has resources in place at Border Control Posts to carry out plant health checks. All regulated third country wood products are subject to inspection at the point of entry into Ireland and the EU. Prior to Brexit there were no border controls for UK imports. In relation to roundwood log imports in 2024, all consignments will receive a documentary, identity and physical check....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Following on from State Aid approval from the European Commission, the Government adopted the Forestry Programme 2023-2027 on 6 September 2023. This was a significant milestone for forestry that will allow for the expansion, protection and development of Ireland’s forests and forestry sector. I was conscious of the delay in the launch and therefore to bridge the gap between the new...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: If there is any money going, I will be looking to use it, certainly.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The key change in the seafood budget this year is that the Brexit Adjustment Reserve funding is not in there. Of all the sectors across the economy for which we drew down that funding last year, it was the seafood sector, both in piers and harbours, in the Deputy's county, my county and across the country. There has been massive investment in the past year. There was also significant...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: With regard to the overall programme in total, it is entirely related to the cessation of Brexit adjustment reserve funding. Of all the sectors we have-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Last year, for example, we had significant investment in piers and harbours and capital investment, we had the payments for the decommissioning scheme, we had significant investment in a seafood processor capital investment scheme and we had an inshore fisheries scheme. That would have been a big part of it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Throughout February, I expect the majority of co-operation payments to be made.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. The work of the ICBF is massively important and is something I very strongly support through the suckler calf scheme and the suckler carbon efficiency programme, SCEP, and through, for example, the recent investment we made last year which will see our national herd become the first herd in the world to be fully genotyped. All of that data will be...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Deputy. It is a really important scheme for farmers and one we significantly backed with a 50% increase in funding. That led to a very high application rate last year. Some 46,000 farmers applied even though we expected approximately 30,000. I made the decision to accept every one of those because I wanted everybody who wanted to participate in ACRES last year, to be able to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Contracts (30 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 433 and 434 together. The named organisation is the only body approved by my Department to carry out performance recording, assessment of genetic value and publication of breeding values for dairy and beef cattle in Ireland. No other organisation has applied for similar approval. My Department approves an annual programme of services and activities with the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Contracts (30 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I wish to advise the Deputy that the information requested is set out in the table below. Year Purpose of Services/Consultancy Engagement Services still in use Yes/No Cost € Cost Benefit Analysis TB Eradication programme No 68,782 On Farm Market Valuation Review No 92,250 ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Scheme (TAMS 3) provides grants to farmers to build and/or improve a specified range of farm buildings and equipment on their holdings, and all investments must be linked to climate, environmental or animal welfare improvements. There are currently no investments available under TAMS 3 specific to hemp processing for commercial purposes. The list of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (30 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Carbon Farming is a potential enabler in assisting the agricultural and land use sectors in meeting Ireland’s climate targets as set out in its most recent Climate Action Plan (2024) as well as providing a potential new income stream for farmers in the future. My Department held a public consultation in September 2023 on Carbon Farming and positive feedback was received from...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The person named submitted applications to the 2023 Complementary Income Support for Young Farmers scheme and the young farmer category of the 2023 National Reserve as the young farmer in a Registered Farm Partnership. The application to the 2023 National Reserve was successful, and approval and payment based on the successful application issued in mid-December 2023. Processing of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Advance payments to organic farmers commenced on 7thDecember 2023. To date, approximately 90% of Organic Farming Scheme participants have received advance payments. DAFM is working to finalise payments for the remaining 10% of participants. The majority of these payments, including for this case, will issue within the next 8 weeks.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I note that, further to my previous response, the question now being asked is whether further funding will be made available to allow all applicants to Tranche 2 to be accepted into ACRES. As previously stated, €1.5 billion has been committed over the lifetime of the Scheme. A balance must be considered in allocating this funding, between accepting the appropriate number of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP) aims to provide support to beef farmers to improve the environmental sustainability of the national beef herd. The programme aims to build on the gains delivered in recent years through the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) and the Beef Environmental Efficiency Programme (BEEP) by improving the genetic merit of the Irish suckler herd. ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The person named was approved into Tranche 1 of the Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES), with a contract commencement date of 1 January 2023. ACRES payments commenced on December 15th for ACRES General cases that had, at that point, cleared the scheme payment validations. Due to the unprecedented number of applications approved under Tranche 1, it was not possible to get all...