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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: Yes and it is to be delivered over the decade but so far what we have plugged in is the delivery piece that we can manage from what we know, which is in the housed systems-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: -----because animals are housed for four or fives months a year. We are also expediting the research around the grass-based capacity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: It is to be completed by quarter 3 this year. We launched a tender for the professional expertise to be able to do the strategy. We will conclude that shortly, in the next couple of weeks. The target for the delivery date is quarter 3 for our strategy. That will inform how we step out the development.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: Powdered milk is an important food domestically as well as internationally. Obviously Government policy is to promote-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: It is important that everything is marketed responsibly everywhere. Obviously we can only control what we do in our country but what we do here in our country is produce the safest, best quality and most nutritious dairy products, including infant formula products as well. That is why our country's raw milk is so sought after as a key ingredient for that. That is part of the diet in our...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: I am not getting into that space today. I am going to focus on the climate aspect.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: We have an exceptional dairy industry and an exceptionally safe and sustainable one. That is why all of our products are preferred products around the world, whether that be cheese, milk or indeed the milk as a key ingredient of infant formula.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: I know the Senator has been advocating very strongly regarding ACRES. The Burren life project and the hen harrier project are two exceptional examples of how farmers can work together to make a real impact. Both schemes were established under the European Innovation Partnership, EIP, pilot project funding. The idea behind EIPs is that you road-test something, which normally necessitates...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: The Senator is aware I set up the beef and sheep food division group, as well as the dairy food division group. One of the recommendations of the dairy food division group was that we should explore and look to take forward the option of a voluntary dairy reduction scheme. Our target is to have that clarified by the end of this year. I indicated a month or so ago that 2022 would be a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: We expect next year to be the follow-through on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: That is my intention, pending engagement with stakeholders in the mean time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: We are reviewing all of the thresholds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: I expect it to be over the next short number of months. The work is commencing and a full assessment will be made. I want to expedite the conclusion in terms of where we go with it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: There are about 250 agricultural inspectors in that sphere.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: We can-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: There are about 250 people in the space. In terms of climate scientists, I do not have the exact figure to hand but I can get it for Deputy Cronin. The Deputy said the Government's approach is to keep calm and carry on. We will certainly keep calm but we will get on with the work, contrary to the Sinn Féin approach, which is very much keep the head down and hope nobody notices. If...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: At least the Deputy is finding-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: If Senator Boylan gives it she has to be able to take it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: It is fair to draw a contrast. Deputy Cronin referred to holding two positions at the one time, and that is a fair reflection.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: And on another committee, a different position.