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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Wise 2025 Strategy (8 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: Food Wise 2025, the latest ten year strategy for the agrifood sector published in July 2015 identifies the opportunities and challenges facing the sector and provides an enabling strategy that will allow the sector to grow and prosper. Food Wise includes more than 400 specific recommendations, spread across the cross-cutting themes of sustainability, innovation, human capital, market...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (8 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: The Brexit Loan Scheme provides affordable working capital to eligible businesses with up to 499 employees that are, or will be, impacted by Brexit, and meet the scheme criteria. Exchequer funding from the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation has been leveraged to provide a fund of up to €300 million. The scheme was launched on 28 March this year and will remain open...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Census of Population Data (8 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: Official statistics on farm numbers are compiled by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) and come from two sources, the Census of Agriculture and the Farm Structure Survey . The Census of Agriculture, which is carried out every ten years, compiles data on the number of family farms in each county. The last agriculture census was taken in 2010 with the next census of agriculture expected to be...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: European Innovation Partnerships (8 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: At the outset, I wish to clarify that each European Innovation Partnerships Initiative project is locally led, locally designed and locally administered and not managed directly by my Department. All projects are still in the early stages of design or implementation. The first round of the EIP competitive process started in December 2016. Following a two stage selection process, twelve...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Labelling (8 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: Discussions between my Department and the Department of Health on the implementation of a SI on the extension of COOL to loose meats are on-going.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Knowledge Transfer Programme (8 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: The Forestry Knowledge Transfer Groups scheme is a completely separate scheme and is not part of Ireland's Rural Development Programme 2014-2020. It is an initiative of my Department and is entirely exchequer-funded. It has different requirements and conditions to that of the other Knowledge Transfer schemes. In designing the Scheme my Department consulted with stakeholders and the scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Environmental Efficiency Scheme Pilot (8 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: My Department has provided €20 million in budget 2019 for a new pilot scheme for suckler farmers, specifically aimed at further improving the carbon efficiency of beef production. The Beef Environmental Efficiency Pilot (BEEP) will target the weaning efficiency of suckler cows and calves - measuring the liveweight of the calf at weaning as a percentage of the cow's liveweight....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff Data (8 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: One of my key priorities is to further increase the market opportunity for Irish food and drinks internationally. Market development is a key component of Food Wise 2025, and is particularly important in the context of Brexit. My Department’s market access effort includes work at political, diplomatic, and technical levels. The work of staff right across the Department is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tax Reliefs Application (8 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: Taxation policy is the responsibility of the Minister for Finance. However, I have on-going contact with Minister Donohoe to ensure that taxation policy reflects the Government’s commitment to agriculture. The following tax or stamp duty relief schemes come within article 18 of Commission Regulation (EU) No 702/2014, the Agriculture Block Exemption Regulation (ABER) which sets out...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: I do not have the detail on all of that. I know that my colleague the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy D'Arcy, has been chairing a working group looking at all of those issues. I am aware that the Personal Injuries Assessment Board recently published that figure, which shows that the level of compensation is significantly out of line with international comparators. In...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: The first thing I would say is that the appeals process, which is independent of the Department, is an invaluable service to farmers. I am aware of instances where farmers have felt aggrieved by a decision of the Department interpreting the rules and regulations surrounding schemes and have appealed successfully. I encourage farmers to avail of the process. Yes, in the programme for...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: I have had some engagement with the Irish Harness Racing Association, as I know Members of the House have. As I understand it, the IHRA is a constituent member of Horse Sport Ireland, HSI, to which we increased funding in the budget. We have engaged with the IHRA and sought a strategy document from it. I have engaged directly in the past two weeks. At that stage I understood that the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: To answer Deputy O'Loughlin's question on domestic violence legislation, I am not aware of the detail around the commencement. I agree with the Deputy that this is a heinous crime, and we need the full legislative arsenal to deal with those who are guilty of it. I will ask my colleague, the Minister for Justice and Equality, to communicate with the Deputy directly. On Deputy Kenny's...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: It is a negotiated agreement between the postmasters-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: Exactly.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: The negotiated agreements are being honoured by An Post. The critical issue in securing the continued survival of post offices is their level of usage because that is what determines the remuneration available to postmasters.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: Where communities are not supporting post offices - I acknowledge that there are many alternative ways by which pension payments can be made directly-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: -----they are, in many respects, reflecting the changing times in which we live.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: I will bring the Deputy's specific question to the attention of the Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Nov 2018)

Michael Creed: It remains the Government's commitment to roll out the national broadband plan at the earliest possible date. The terms of reference of the review to be carried out by Mr. Smith have been finalised. I am not sure if it is time bound by the Department, the Government or the Minister involved, but we will let Mr. Smith have access to whatever information he requires. The tender was submitted...