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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: The amount for installation aid is only €10,000, whereas the figure for early retirement is approximately €10 million. In regard to Deputy Penrose's question on whether we will introduce a new installation aid scheme, we investigated how we can spend money to the maximum effect. When installation aid was introduced, there was no requirement on young farmers to spend it in any...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: If one has a horse, one must register one's premises as an equine-registered premises. If one is a farmer who is farming, one should also register one's premises as a place where there are equines.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: It probably can but I need to check that.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: There is no real cost to this. This is about getting information as to where animals are.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: We will look at that. People need to know that this is not some kind of voluntary option. This is a requirement in terms of horse ownership.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: That is not a bad idea and perhaps when we are sending out the forms this year, we will look at reminding farmers of that.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: Sorry?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: What is the Deputy referring to?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: Yes. The BSE testing programme is again a positive story. BSE is an historical problem in Ireland but we still maintain the most rigorous testing programme in the world. I can tell export markets that, despite the fact it is no longer in our herd, we still test to ensure that is the case. There will be a slight reduction next year in the allocation from €2.2 million down to...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: Practically all of the 4,500 seizures made last year were in urban settings, either towns or cities. For example, on the north side of Cork city at the end of November, 83 horses on public lands were seized. Quite a number of these horses had to be put down because of welfare concerns. We rehomed 42 of those horses through a voluntary organisation. Most of them were rehomed in the UK....

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: We have done a significant amount on the control of horses issue in a short period. There has been more done on horse welfare over the past 12 months than over the past 12 years. The process had commenced prior to the horse meat crisis to improve the regulations and data relating to horses such as who owns them, their location, the premises they are on and the process by which some enter...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: Either 40% or 60%. I will check for the Deputy. The figure is as high as we can make it.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: Yes.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: They do. Quite a number of farmers chose not to be involved in the scheme. We are catering for the number who decided to apply for the scheme and a few more, but there will be farmers who will choose not to be part of the new beef genomic scheme. I do not know why, but that is their choice. They may not want the hassle, for example. Some of them may be part-time. However, this is not...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: The average herd size is 17. The average herd size under the suckler cow welfare scheme was 19.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: We are getting into the RDP debate again, in which I can engage if the Chairman wants.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: The 2014 scheme will require the taking of samples to be sent to the ICBF. Those who want to be part of the scheme will receive a clear instruction pack on what they are required to do. Combining the two schemes, they will be paid €60 per-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: All I can say is that all of the farming organisations have welcomed the beef genomic scheme for 2014. They are very happy with it.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: I am not talking about “they” but about all farming organisations.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Simon Coveney: The beef data transfer scheme has evolved from the suckler cow welfare scheme. We continue to gather relevant information from farmers who know how it works. All of the farmers involved were also involved in the suckler cow welfare scheme. There will be no resistance to this. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív is trying to create a problem that is not there.

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