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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Official Travel (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The following information was provided to the Deputy on 27th July 2022 in my response to PQ No. 40038/22. Location Travel Dates Flight Cost Accommodation Cost Notes 2020 Brussels 20 - 22 Sept 264.08 Government Jet Luxembourg 18 -...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: All applicants in the Organic Farming Scheme are subject to annual validation checks to ensure the correct payments are made. To date, approximately 92% of farmers have received their advance payment. Almost half of all payments due to farmers in partnerships have been made. It is my Department's aim that the majority of organic farmers, including the remaining partnerships, will be paid...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Promoting and safeguarding plant health is a key strategic principle of the Plant Health and Biosecurity Strategy 2020-2025. Within the EU, plant health, including plant pest outbreaks, is governed by Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 on protective measures against pests of plants. In 2023 DAFM investigated twenty-one potential outbreaks of Fireblight (Erwinia amylovora (Burrill) Winslow et al.) of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Promoting and safeguarding plant health is a key strategic principle of the Plant Health and Biosecurity Strategy 2020-2025. Within the EU, plant health, including plant pest outbreaks, is governed by Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 on protective measures against pests of plants. At fireblight outbreak sites, a “demarcated area” consisting of a 500m “infested...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Promoting and safeguarding plant health is a key strategic principle of the Plant Health and Biosecurity Strategy 2020-2025. Within the EU plant health is governed by the EU Plant Health Regulation 2031 of 2016 and the Official Controls Regulations 625 of 2017. My Department conducts annual plant health surveillance checks for plant pests and diseases, including Fireblight. Following...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Reports (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department conducts annual plant health surveillance checks for plant pests and diseases, including Erwinia amylovora (Fireblight). Ireland is recognised as having a favourable plant health status and has the highest number of protected zones in the EU, with 23 pests and diseases listed. A protected zone is a region in which a harmful organism which has established in one or more parts of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Advertising (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department provides public information about the Department's wide range of schemes, services and policies. The amount spent by my Department on advertising in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2024, is set out in the table below. This included information campaigns in 2023 on farm safety and the new Forestry Programme. Expenditure also includes the publication of Statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Contracts (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The information requested by the Deputy is being collated by my Department and a reply will be forwarded within 10 working days.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: It is not possible to provide the information requested by the Deputy in the required time. The information is currently being compiled and I will forward it to the Deputy as soon as it is available.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: It is not possible to provide the information requested by the Deputy in the required time. The information is currently being compiled and I will forward it to the Deputy as soon as it is available.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Following exceptional flooding in the Shannon Callows during summer 2023, on 7 November 2023 I announced the launch of the Shannon Callows Flood Scheme. The aim of the scheme is to support farmers who have lost fodder due to flooding in the region during summer 2023. I have allocated funding of approximately €800,000 which will allow for a payment rate of up to €325 per hectare....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Labelling (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Geographical Indications identify a product whose quality, reputation or other such 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 meets the conditions of the relevant EU Regulations governing the scheme. As part of its scrutiny of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I can confirm that a shipment of in-calf animals was recently exported from Ireland to Algeria on a dedicated livestock vessel. It is important to emphasise that the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine only permits animals to be transported in compliance with the EU's animal welfare legislation, which is amongst the most progressive legal frameworks in the world. Furthermore,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The nutrient values for poultry manure, as stated in Tables 7 and 8 of the Good Agricultural Practice for the Protection of Waters (GAP) Regulations (S.I. No. 113 of 2022, as amended), cover litter/manure from egg producing birds (known as layers) and meat producing birds (known as broilers). The tables represent manures of varying dry matters and litter types. Both of these parameters have...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Under the Control of Horses Act 1996, local authorities may take a range of actions in relation to equines including prohibiting horses in certain areas, the issuing of licences and the seizure of horses in contravention of the Act. These powers can be used in respect of straying horses, which includes horses put on land without the owner’s permission, including public land. Local...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department endeavours on an ongoing basis to maximise the levels of compliance with equine identification legislation and enforcement is carried out by authorised officers across the Regional Office network in conjunction with authorised officers in the Local Authorities, An Garda Síochána, the Revenue Commissioners and other relevant organisations .My Department does not...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: In January 2022, I launched the Brexit Adjustment Local Authority Marine Infrastructure (BALAMI) Scheme 2022-2023 exclusively for the rejuvenation of local authority owned public piers and harbours based on the recommendations of the Seafood Taskforce Report. The scheme was a unique initiative designed to support job creation and protection by distributing Brexit Adjustment Reserve (BAR)...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: An application for participation in the 2023 Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) scheme was received from the above named applicant on the 25thMay, 2023. The applicant did not receive an advance payment due to an overclaim with the land parcel B1420100022. This was subsequently resolved. At the time of ANC payment issuance, January 15th2024, a request to remove the ANC penalty amount attached...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The horse and greyhound racing industries receive financial support from the State through the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund (the Fund) under Section 12 of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Act, 2001. My Department disburses the Fund to Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) and Rásaíocht Con Éireann (RCÉ) with 80% allocated to HRI and 20% to RCÉ. As part of Budget 2024...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Rásaíocht Con Éireann (RCÉ) is a commercial state body, established under the Greyhound Industry Act, 1958 chiefly to control greyhound racing and to improve and develop the greyhound industry. RCÉ is a body corporate and a separate legal entity to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The question raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for...