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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Budget 2025 sent a strong message of support for farmers engaged in the production of dairy beef calves. Earlier this year, I published a 10-point plan to develop and support our growing Dairy Beef sector. To further encourage this development, I am doubling the current payment per eligible calf to €40. As my aim is to encourage greater integration of the dairy and beef sectors, the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The budget allocation for the Traditional Farm Buildings grant scheme is approximately €1.5 million. The maximum grant rate payable under the scheme for approved works is 75%, and the maximum grant amount is €30,000. This allows for approximately 50 projects per year to be funded. The vacant property grant is €50,000 per project. Increasing the traditional farm building...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Health and Safety Authority (HSA), which is under the remit of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, has statutory responsibility for safety in the workplace including the safety of young people operating tractors on farms. The FRS Co-Op delivers a course which is specifically designed to develop the safety skills of 14 to 16-year-olds in relation to tractor driving. The...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Funding for the fishing fleet is provided for through schemes administered by Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) on behalf of my Department, and funded under the Seafood Development Programme (SDP). The SDP is co-funded by the Irish Government and the EU Commission under the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) 2021-2027. The EMFAF regulation sets out what EMFAF funding can, and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Funding for aquaculture sector supports is provided under the Seafood Development Programme (SDP). The SDP is co-funded by the Irish Government and the EU Commission under the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) 2021-2027. Aquaculture operators may access support under a number of scheme, such as the Seafood Training Scheme, the Sustainable Aquaculture Scheme, and the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tillage Sector (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Tillage Sector has been allocated additional funding in both 2024 and 2025, above the annual €20m already provided via the Cap Strategic Programme for both the Protein and Straw Incorporation Measures. The additional Tillage Top Up and Unharvested Crop Loss expenditure of €14.3M realised in early 2024, was in respect of cereal crops planted during Winter 22 - Spring 23...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department is committed to meeting our target of 10% of all agricultural land being farmed organically by 2030. There has been a very strong uptake of the Organic Farming Scheme over the last three years, most recently in December 2023, when a further 1,000 farmers joined the Scheme. This means that, this year, there will be approximately 5,000 organic farmers in Ireland farming...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department has provided a number of schemes in support of extreme weather/flooding in recent years. These include the Shass Landslide Scheme, the Shannon Callows Flood Scheme, the Unharvested Crop Loss Support Scheme, the Fodder Transport Support Scheme and most recently the Cooley Flood Damage Relief Scheme. Please see table below outlining the cost associated with the most recent...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I wish to inform the Deputy that the 2024 allocations for my department's agri-environmental Schemes is set out in the following table. SCHEME 2024 Allocation €000 B.3 - AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEMES 92,499 B.4 - AREAS OF NATURAL CONSTRAINT SCHEME 247,000 B.10 - FORESTRY & BIO ENERGY* 115,000 B.14 - AGRI-CLIMATE RURAL...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS 3), which is a measure under the CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027, supports a number of measures to improve water quality. There is an indicative budget of €370 million available for the period 2023-2027 for all TAMS 3 measures, and all investments must be linked to Climate, Environment or Animal Welfare. The existing measures...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Agricultural Sustainability Support and Advisory Programme (ASSAP) is a Government and industry funded initiative which commenced in 2018 to facilitate improvements in water quality. Supported by my Department, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (DHLGH), and by Dairy Industry Ireland, ASSAP involves both Teagasc, and industry employed advisers working with farmers in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 487 and 488 together. The responsibility for the development and maintenance of Local Authority owned piers, harbours and slipways rests with each Local Authority in the first instance. I am also mindful that the primary governance role for local authorities rests with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and any wider funding issues for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: At present there are no state funded incentives in place for payments directly to fishing vessels to incentivise fish landings into Irish ports. Any such incentive is likely to be contrary to internal market rules. Significant investment has been made in the infrastructure and facilities available at the State owned Fisheries Harbour Centres to support fish landings from both Irish and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The poultry sector continues to make a valuable contribution to Irish agrifood sector, supporting approximately 5,000 jobs in direct and indirect employment. The CSO valued the output of the poultry meat sector at €225.7 million for 2023. As in other meat sectors, global trade conditions will be crucial in determining the outlook for the Irish poultry sector over the medium to longer...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The 2024 allocations for my department's agri-environmental schemes is set out in the following table. Subhead 2024 Allocation €000 B.3 - AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEMES 92,499 B.4 - AREAS OF NATURAL CONSTRAINT SCHEME 247,000 B.10 - FORESTRY & BIO ENERGY* 115,000 B.14 - AGRI-CLIMATE RURAL ENVIRONMENT SCHEME ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Animal welfare is a key priority for me as Minister and for the Government and Department provides considerable funding to support animal welfare. In December 2023, under the Animal Welfare grants programme I announced the record allocation of €6 million in funding to 101 animal welfare charities throughout the country. This marks the largest ever award of grant funding to animal...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department is implementing a series of farm safety, health and well-being initiatives in 2024 through dedicated funding of €2.5m. These initiatives promote farm safety practices and risk awareness and encourage behavioural change around farm safety from a young age, while also supporting those who have been impacted by fatal and non-fatal incidents. The main initiatives in 2024...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Forestry Programme for the period 2023-2027 aims to encourage a substantial increase in afforestation by offering attractive and diverse options for planting. This Government has committed €1.3 billion of funding to the Programme in order to support our national ambition of 8,000 hectares of afforestation per year. It also provides for a range of schemes to support the maintenance...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department's investment in improving the genetic merit of beef sires in the national herd is spread across three separate measures as described below. The national Bovine Genotyping Programme, which commenced in 2023 for a five year period, is open to both dairy and beef breeding herds. The programme through the genotyping of the calf crop each year in the participating herds provides...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (15 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Gender equality in agriculture is a key priority of mine. It is also a core principle of the European Union. The Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) Regulations place particular focus on promoting women’s participation in the development of rural areas, with special attention to farming. Good progress has been made in this area, and under Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan (CSP) I am...