Results 281-300 of 3,570 for speaker:Martin Heydon

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: The National Strategy for Horticulture 2023-2027 includes an action for my department to work with local authorities to implement and support community gardens and allotments to encourage enthusiasm for gardening / growing and promote fresh produce consumption and healthy eating. To progress this action a short survey was issued to 31 county councils/local authorities to get a snapshot of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Sales (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: Commercial movement of pets is defined where a pet, or pets, is either travelling unaccompanied, or is travelling for the use of trading, or for shows, sporting events or where an owner has more than 5 pets travelling. The number of dogs exported commercially from Ireland in the past five years are listed in the tabular form below: Year Amount 2020 ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: My Department is focused on reducing emissions from land, protecting the environment and maintaining biodiversity, as well as ensuring farmer’s livelihoods and the family farm model of agriculture is protected. My Department supports a number of initiatives, including Ireland's flagship €1.5 billion-euro agri-environmental scheme ACRES facilitates the provision of a suite of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: Ministerial advisers are appointed by the Government in accordance with the provisions of the Public Service Management Act 1997. The costs requested by the Deputy, including mileage claims, subsistence, other vouched expenses and unvouched expenses are set out in the table below. Please note that all claims are paid at the prevailing Civil Service rates. Travel episodes comprise 37...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: GAEC 2 is a baseline requirement and is legally required to be put in place for 2025 as part of the conditionality requirements for the Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS) payment scheme. If Ireland does not introduce this standard now, we will be in serious breach of the EU regulations governing the CAP Strategic Plans. This would lead to significant and recurring financial...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: My Department owns, operates and maintains six designated State-owned Fishery Harbour Centres, located at Howth, Dunmore East, Castletownbere, An Daingean (Dingle), Ros An Mhíl (Rossaveel) and Killybegs under statute. My Department became responsible for the Fishery Harbour Centres in October 2007. The Fishery Harbour Centres were established under the Fishery Harbour Centre Act 1968...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Meetings (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: The next meeting of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council will take place in Brussels on 24 March 2025.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: Neglect or causing unnecessary suffering to any animal is unacceptable in our society and I am fully committed to the ongoing promotion and enforcement of high animal welfare standards. My Department continues to enforce the law in this important area as does An Garda Síochána, the Customs service, the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) and the Dublin...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: Neglect or causing unnecessary suffering to any animal is unacceptable in our society and I am fully committed to the ongoing promotion and enforcement of high animal welfare standards. My Department continues to enforce the law in this important area as does An Garda Síochána, the Customs service, the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) and the Dublin...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: Neglect or causing unnecessary suffering to any animal is unacceptable in our society and I am fully committed to the ongoing promotion and enforcement of high animal welfare standards. My Department continues to enforce the law in this important area as does An Garda Síochána, the Customs service, the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) and the Dublin...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: The Irish Deer Management Strategy group was established to develop a strategy for the sustainable management of deer in Ireland. The Group comprised representatives from my Department, National Parks & Wildlife Service (NPWS) and Coillte. It published a report into “Developing a Sustainable Deer Management Strategy for Ireland” in December 2023. The report listed...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: State Bodies (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: My Department went to tender for the provision of ICT Specialists and Software in 2019 and 2022 for the development of a Customer Engagement Contact Centre (CECC). The winning tenderer was Codec for those Request for Tenders (RFT). Flexibility was provided for in the contracts to allow for additional services, if required. Projects were successfully delivered along with additional...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: The Sheep Improvement Scheme is funded under Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan. It provides support to sheep farmers for carrying out targeted welfare actions that improve animal health and welfare in the sheep sector. It builds on the progress made by the Sheep Welfare Scheme (SWS), which had operated in the previous CAP. The Sheep Improvement Scheme provides financial support to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: My Department received a request for the assignment of the licence referred to by the Deputy on 04 April 2024. My Department’s Marine Engineers inspected the site on 05 June 2024 and identified a number of non-compliance issues. These were communicated to the licence holder who undertook work on the site to resolve the issues identified. Following a re-inspection of the site and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Turbary Rights (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: I understand these questions relate to the records of the former Irish Land Commission and I have asked the Deputy to write to the Records Branch of my Department supplying further details of the specific case he has in mind to enable them to provide any assistance and if appropriate to identify any document relevant to the Deputy’s question.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Turbary Rights (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: I understand these questions relate to the records of the former Irish Land Commission and I have asked the Deputy to write to the Records Branch of my Department supplying further details of the specific case he has in mind to enable them to provide any assistance and if appropriate to identify any document relevant to the Deputy’s question.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: The person named submitted an application under the ACRES Co-operation stream and was approved into Tranche 1 of the scheme, with a commencement date of January 1st, 2023. I can confirm that all ACRES payments in respect of 2023 have been finalised for this participant, however, the advance payment claim in respect of 2024 has not yet cleared all the necessary pre-payment validation checks....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: The person named submitted an application under the ACRES Co-operation stream and was approved into Tranche 1 of the scheme, with a commencement date of January 1st, 2023. I can confirm that all ACRES payments in respect of 2023 have been finalised for this participant. The advance payment claim associated with this herd in respect of 2024 has not yet cleared all the necessary...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: The person named submitted an application under the ACRES Co-Operation stream and was approved into Tranche 1 of the scheme, with a commencement date of 1st January 2023. I can confirm that all ACRES payments in respect of 2023 have been finalised for this participant. My Department has received a request to transfer this ACRES contract to a partnership. Department officials have been in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: Forestry in Ireland operates within a legal and regulatory framework – the Forest Act 2014 and the Forestry Regulations 2017 (SI No 191 of 2017). The regulation of forestry is necessary in order to protect forests and also to ensure that forestry operations and activities are carried out in compliance with the principles of sustainable forest management. The felling of trees...