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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Conservation (17 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department provides funding each year through the Animal Welfare Grants Programme to registered animal welfare charities for the care and welfare of animals. Animal welfare remains a key priority for me as Minister and for the Government and considerable funding is provided to support these organisations. On the 7th December last year, I announced record funding of €6 million...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine conducts checks on food products of animal origin and certain categories of foods of non-animal origin, imported into Ireland from non-EU countries. These checks are carried out at dedicated facilities called border control posts. There are four designated border control posts in Ireland: Dublin Airport, Dublin Port, Rosslare Port and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (17 Jan 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...

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

Charlie McConalogue: My Department is working to ensure that the entitlement position for the named person is correct, with the aim of clearing his BISS application for payment at the earliest possible date and has been in contact with the person named.

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

Charlie McConalogue: More than 9,000 applications were received for Tranche 2 of the Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) by the 13 December 2023 closing date. As the funding provided in Budget 2024 facilitates the acceptance of approximately 4,000 applicants in order to bring the overall numbers in the Scheme up to 50,000, in line with Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027, it will not be...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (17 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department, in consultation with the three Island Committees, agreed to provide parking permits to permanent residents of the Aran Islands and when the terms and conditions of the parking permit application process were decided, vehicles taxed as ‘Motor Caravan’ were not included as eligible under this process. The exclusion of vehicles taxed as ‘Motor...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Ireland is currently focused on improving nutrient use efficiency to improve the recovery of organic manures at farm level while reducing the dependency on chemical fertilisers. Our CAP Strategic Plan is supporting farmers to adjust their farming practices to reduce reliance on chemical fertiliser (for example use of multi-species sward, soil sampling and liming, investments in LESS), and to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (17 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Due to the complexities of the data required to address the information sought, it is not possible to meet the stipulated deadline. A full response will issue as soon as possible

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I welcome the recent announcement by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, confirming the State’s purchase of Dowth Hall and the establishment of the Boyne Valley (Brú na Bóinne) National Park. The National Parks and Wildlife Service, the National Monuments Service and the Office of Public Works have been tasked with delivering a Masterplan for the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (17 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...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Bia (17 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I advise the Deputy that I, along with my officials met with the CEO of Bord Bia at the first of a regular cycle of agri-food industry events on Wednesday 10 January at the launch the Bord Bia Export Performance and Prospects Report 2023-2024. Bord Bia is closely aligned with the strategies and policies of my Department, specifically the agri-food industry strategy of Food Vision 2030...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (17 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department invited interested parties to contribute to the public consultation on the matter of passenger vessel licences/permits at Howth Fishery Harbour Centre from July 20th until September 16th, 2022. The consultation sought to gather the views about how additional permits could be awarded and what factors should be taken into account in managing the permits. The low response (six...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department regularly engages with the named organisation on this and other matters. I am aware that there are delays in the issuing of equine passports. 80% of passport requests are received in quarter four in any given year. The situation in 2023 was further exacerbated due to changes in parentage verification using genomic testing. I am informed that the named organisation deployed...

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

Charlie McConalogue: Annual aggregate beef export volumes for the decade from 2014 are shown in the table hereunder. Data for 2023 relates to the first ten months of the year only, as full year data is not yet available. The average quantity exported annually from 2014 to 2022 was over 512,000 metric tonnes reflecting a positive perception of Ireland as a consistent source of high-quality beef with strong...

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

Charlie McConalogue: The table below shows the volume of beef imports in tonnes for each of the past five years for which data is available. Final full year data for 2023 will become available in mid-March 2024, but between January and November 2023 it is estimated that 32,930 tonnes of beef were imported into Ireland. It should be noted that the volume of beef imports is not an exact proxy for foreign beef sold...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Office of the Agri-Food Regulator is now fully operational. The Programme for Government contained a commitment for an independent statutory body to enforce the unfair trading practices outlined in Directive EU 2019/633 and to provide a price and market analysis function to increase fairness and transparency in the Agri-Food supply chain. Pending the finalisation of the primary...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The agri-food sector has faced numerous challenges over the past five years, including the challenges posed by Brexit, COVID-19 and geopolitical events such as the illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia. These have resulted in a greatly changed trading environment with our closest neighbour, the closure of the food service sector for much of 2020 and 2021, and a rapid rise in input costs over...

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

Charlie McConalogue: My Department continually monitors farm structures and levels of employment in agriculture and the wider agri-food sector. The number of farms in Ireland is recorded every ten years in the Census of Agriculture (COA), with 2010 and 2020 being the most recent years, with the Farm Structure Survey (FSS) taking place periodically in between, in 2013 and 2016. The number of farms was recorded as...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (17 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine facilitates lawful commercial trade while ensuring that live animal transport is carried out in compliance with legislative welfare standards. There are currently no restrictions on trade with Israel in place.

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

Charlie McConalogue: This herd was restricted by my Department following breaches of bovine identification and movement recording requirements found on his holding. My Department’s Regional Veterinary Office (RVO) is currently engaging with the herd owner to assist him in regularising the identified breaches. Once my Department is satisfied that the herd is in full compliance with the bovine...