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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Milk Supply (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I agree with the Deputy about the scenes we saw on "RTÉ Investigates" on Monday night. They were absolutely unacceptable and totally intolerable. I have launched an investigation and it will be robustly followed up. We cannot have any corner of our agrifood sector in which those types of practices happen. They are certainly not representative of what happens on farms across the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Milk Supply (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I dispute the Deputy's last point entirely. There can be no place for the type of behaviour we saw on "RTÉ Investigates". I will not tolerate that as the Minister responsible for agriculture, nor indeed will anyone in the sector with responsibility. We will clamp down on it in every way we possibly can. The Deputy made a point about emissions. There is no doubt we saw an increase...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Deputy. I take it he is referring to the mid-term review of the European Union's 2021-2027 MFF, as it is the financial framework that sets the funding allocations across the various headings of the EU budget, including the Common Agricultural Policy. Last month the Commission published its proposals for a limited and targeted revision of the 2021-2027 MFF, which is the overall...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Deputy for his question. This is an important issue, so we must ensure that everyone works together in progressing future offshore opportunities and that all considerations are taken into account. Commercial sea fishing and aquaculture activities are long-standing, pre-existing and traditional activities in the marine environment. The Deputy will agree that our seafood...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I am happy to meet them further. I regularly meet the inshore fisheries forum. I would encourage our inshore fishers to become organised through the regional and national forums. Their voice has not been represented properly in our fisheries’ representative infrastructure. This has been a major weakness and has meant that, in many cases, they have not had fair representation or a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: To be clear, officials in my Department have worked consistently to ensure the voice of fishers is heard across the Government, which is where the challenge lies. It is always heard within the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, but some of these issues are led by other Departments. Like fishers, my Department’s officials have always sought to ensure that engagement...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Milk Supply (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Deputy for her question. Milk is a sustainable, safe and very nutritious food product and we are among the best in the world in how we produce and deliver it. Whenever I listen to nutritionists on television or radio, they advocate for the nutritional benefits of milk as a food. As such, it is important that milk and all the dairy products that come from it are produced....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Annual catch limits for the Northern Albacore Tuna stock are set by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) based on scientific advice. The annual Total Allowable Catch (TAC) for the Northern Albacore Tuna stock has been set by ICCAT at 37,801 tonnes for both 2022 and 2023. In both 2022 and 2023, on the basis of the shares set out in the EU-UK Trade and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pesticide Use (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Pesticide active substances, such as glyphosate, contained in plant protection products are approved centrally at EU level and plant protection products are subsequently authorised for specific uses nationally using robust scientific evaluation and decision-making criteria. The current approval for glyphosate will expire on 15 December 2023. The EU process to consider whether or not to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Social farming is the practice of offering farming and horticultural participation in a farming environment as a choice to people who avail of a range of therapeutic day support services. These operations are run in a number of settings ranging from working family farms, local community initiatives through to more institutional frameworks. Last year, my Department provided funding of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Bia (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Let me be clear - Bord Bia is not funding climate disinformation. It is a fact that Ireland has a comparative advantage in grass-based livestock production, and that Ireland’s carbon footprint per unit of milk produced is one of the lowest amongst milk-producing countries because of our grass-based system. Irish dairy farmers have been on a sustainability journey for many...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Coursing is regulated under the Greyhound Industry Act, 1958, chiefly by the Irish Coursing Club (ICC), subject to the general control and direction of Rásaíocht Con Éireann. The ICC consists of 90 affiliated clubs from Ireland and Northern Ireland, all of whom are governed by the ICC's rules and regulations. The granting of licenses for the netting and tagging of hares is a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Construction Industry (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I pleased to announce that I launched a call for expressions of interest for membership to the new Timber Working Group in Construction earlier this week. The new working group will bring together key Departments, Industry and experts from representative bodies to work across a range of thematic areas aimed at increasing the use of timber in construction in construction. It is vitally...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: One of our Statement of Strategy objectives within DAFM is to promote measures to support farmers viability and resilience. Under Goal 3, the statement commits to developing a policy framework to improve viability and resilience, within the Agricultural Sector, with the aim of putting climate adaptation at the centre of resilience planning. Climate adaptation was considered and included...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Organic Sector in Ireland has seen a rapid expansion in the last year and I am focused on maximising the potential of this developing sector. Bord Bia, under the aegis of the Department, continues to invest in identifying and supporting export market opportunities for Irish organic companies (including those seeking to export beef) through their network of 15 overseas offices and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Deputy for raising this important topic. My Department is implementing a range of measures on farm safety utilising dedicated funding of €2.5m secured in Budget 2023. These measures include actions to educate and raise awareness of farm safety, health and and capital support to make farms a safer working environment. These initiatives promote farm safety practices, risk...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Support for sustainable food production in the European Union, and the need to ensure food security for our citizens, is an ongoing and core element of discussions at the Council of Agriculture and Fisheries Ministers. During these discussions I have continually emphasised the central role of the Common Agriculture Policy in underpinning EU agriculture and food security. The CAP must...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I have undertaken a number of actions to deliver transparency in the food supply chain. The Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill that I introduced to the Dáil in December 2022, and which was signed into law by the President on Tuesday, 11 July, provides for a new independent Office, An Rialálaí Agraibhia, which will be a lead voice in promoting, and indeed enforcing,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Policy (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Climate Action Plan 2023, launched on 21 December 2023 is the first plan to be prepared under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021 and following the introduction in 2022, of economy-wide carbon budgets and sectoral emissions ceilings. The plan implements these carbon budgets and sectoral emissions ceilings and sets out a roadmap for taking decisive...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The European Union (International Labour Organisation Work in Fishing Convention) (Safe Manning) Regulations 2023 (S.I. No 315 of 2023) transpose Article 10 of the Annex to Council Directive (EU) 2017/159 of December 2016 concerning the Work in Fishing Convention 2007 of the International Labour Organisation. These Regulations apply to any sea-going ship or boat 15 metres in length overall...