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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (13 Jun 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputy Bruton for the question and for the significant work and the path he carved out as a previous Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment in climate and energy and making real progress in reducing emissions in the wider economy. The Teagasc marginal abatement cost curve, MACC, published in 2018, has undoubtedly been the foundation for what agricultural...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Control of Horses (13 Jun 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: There have been significant actions in the past ten years to improve the traceability and identification of horses. In 2014, the central equine database was introduced. Prior to that, microchipping was introduced. More recently, since 2021 an annual horse census takes place and their places of residence must be registered with the Department too. There has been an online portal since last...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Control of Horses (13 Jun 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome the improvements but it is worth highlighting that, under current legislation, responsibility for ensuring the welfare of animals, horses in this case, falls on the owner of the animal. I am concerned about this, with yesterday’s programme in mind. I do not think what was contained in the programme was that surprising to some of us who have followed this over recent years....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Control of Horses (13 Jun 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputy O'Sullivan for his commitment to this issue and to improving it, taking it forward and for being proactive in producing legislation to help address and contribute to this area. We are reviewing the control of horses legislation with the objective of ensuring enforcement is as strong as it possibly can be. I am happy to engage with the Deputy on his ideas on that and the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Projects (13 Jun 2024)

Departmental Projects

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Projects (13 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 43. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work his Department is undertaking in the current year on precision fermentation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19394/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Projects (13 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 55. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the results of his Department's thematic research call in 2023; if any successful projects are included that relate in any aspect to precision fermentation; if so, to detail the specific research projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19393/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Projects (13 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Both of these questions refer to precision fermentation. Question No. 43 is more general, namely, to ask what research work the Department is doing and the horizon scanning that is taking place in the Department on this issue. Question No. 55 is a more specific question that relates to the Department’s thematic research goal in 2023. The Minister will know I have tabled a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Projects (13 Jun 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 43 and 55 together. A key instrument of my Department’s funding of research is the thematic research call, to which the Deputy referred, which is typically run every second year. I launched the 2023 call in March last year, with the aim of funding pioneering research in areas such as climate mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity and water...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Projects (13 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I tabled these questions and it would be expected that a Green Party Member's primary interest would be in emissions reduction in the production of our food, but in this case it is not. In this case it is in horizon scanning. The Minister will remember when our sugar market was deregulated. There was a situation where we were not allowed to import raw cane sugar and we had a sugar beet...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Projects (13 Jun 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Deputy for raising this. There is significant potential here and we do have to invest in new research. That is why we have the thematic research calls and why precision fermentation is one of the areas which is open for application. We will continue to invest, not only in the precision fermentation area but right across new and emerging science in the agrifood sector. It is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Projects (13 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We do produce the highest quality of dairy, but I am concerned. I have seen farmers across the south east make huge investments in their milking parlours. They are investing a quarter of a million and essentially have a mortgage repayment on it. Slurry storage is another very expensive area. I know a farmer who put half a million into his slurry storage, and the repayments on those loans...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (13 Jun 2024)

Question No. 40 taken with Written Answers.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Jun 2024)

Renewable Energy Generation

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: 41. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 363 of 28 May 2024, the way his Department ensures that the person signing the specific form mentioned in his response is a currently registered Safe Electric Ireland electrician; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25739/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: The purpose of this question is to ask the Minister how his Department ensures that persons signing the form relating to the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, TAMS, solar photo-voltaic, PV, panels are registered Safe Electric Ireland electricians, bearing in mind that more than half of the TAMS 2 processed grants were processed on the basis of forms that were not from the Department...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Jun 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputy Stanton for raising this issue. As Members know, I opened the very popular solar capital investment scheme, which is a measure under TAMS 3, for applications in February of last year. This scheme provides grant aid of 60% with a ring-fenced ceiling particular to this solar TAMS, of €90,000. Solar PV systems grant-aided under TAMS 3 include solar PV panels and solar PV...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his response. Form S198 from the Department is very comprehensive and contains registered electrical contractor details, as the Minister outlined. This is the SEAI form. It is basically the same, but not exactly the same because it does not contain those details. There is no way of checking whether the person who filled out the form is an approved Safe Electric...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Jun 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: This is something Deputy Stanton and I discussed before. The position is that electricians completing the prescribed form must provide details confirming that they are registered Safe Electric Ireland electricians.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: It does not.