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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 721 and 722 together. Coillte is a private limited company established under the Forestry Act 1988 and is operationally independent from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Under SI 367/1988 -Forestry Act 1988 (Coillte Teoranta) (Vesting Day) Order of 1988, the 1st January 1989 was appointed to be the vesting day for Coillte Teoranta, i.e. the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Coillte is a private limited company established under the Forestry Act 1988 and is operationally independent from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Coillte did not pay any dividends from its establishment in January 1989 up to 2008 as all profits were re-invested in the company. Coillte’s dividend policy focuses on delivering a material financial dividend to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Irish Sign Language (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: As the Deputy will be aware, the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 came into effect on 23rd December 2020 and imposes certain obligations on public bodies, including my Department and its agencies. In particular, section 6 of the Act places a duty on public bodies to provide access to public services or statutory entitlements through Irish Sign Language (ISL) when requested through the provision...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Process (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The HPRA Report of the Task Force on the method of supply of antiparasitic veterinary medicinal products that are intended for food-producing species which ultimately recommended the upregulation of antiparasitics for food producing animals to prescription only medicines stated that “An impact assessment of policy options on resistance control as well as on stakeholders and current...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Services (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I am satisfied that the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feeds and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023 does not require veterinary pharmacists to carry out any activity that prevents them from working in accordance with the regulatory requirements for registered pharmacists and retail pharmacy businesses or working within the PSI Code of Conduct for Pharmacists.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I inform the Deputy that the Public Appointments Service will soon begin an open recruitment campaign for Technical Agricultural Officers on behalf of my Department. It is anticipated that the competition will be launched and advertised on www.publicjobs.ie during March/April 2023.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Pearl Mussel Project is operationally independent of the Department and is run by the Pearl Mussel Project Team. Participants should contact the Pearl Mussel project team directly for information regarding their payments. Their website, containing all contact details is: www.pearlmusselproject.ie/ My office has contacted the PMP offices and they have confirmed that they are processing the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The person named applied successfully for GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of 1st October 2015. The GLAS contract was selected for an on-farm inspection on 14th November 2022. During the course of this inspection, areas of non-compliance with the Terms and Conditions of the scheme were noted and outlined in the Notification of Findings letter which issued 25th January 2023. A 100%...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: In October 2019, Coillte and Bord na Móna announced a new initiative to plant approximately 4 million native trees across 1500 hectares of Bord na Móna land that is no longer used for peat production. Bord na Móna formally ended all peat harvesting on its lands by the end of 2019. As a result of this cessation in peat harvesting, industrial cutover peatlands are becoming...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I have introduced some changes to TAMS under the TAMs 3 scheme to better align it with overall agriculture and environmental priorities. For applications under the Dairy Equipment Capital Investment Scheme, Women Farmers Capital Investment Scheme and Organic Capital Investment Scheme, applicants may apply for up to 10 milking units in a herringbone parlour, or one robotic milking machine, if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Services (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I am satisfied that the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feeds and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023 does not require veterinary pharmacists to carry out any activity that prevents them from working in accordance with the regulatory requirements for registered pharmacists and retail pharmacy businesses or working within the PSI Code of Conduct for Pharmacists.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Services (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) officials have consulted extensively with stakeholders on the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feeds and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023, including meeting with officials from the Department of Health. This is an important piece of legislation and I wanted to make sure that all relevant stakeholders and groups were actively...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The expenditure under the Forestry Budget for 2022 is shown in the table below: - Budget Allocation Spend 2022 Saving Capital €96,038,000 €70,461,907 €25,576,093 Current €4,043,000 €3,623,981 €419,019 Total ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The objective of the Beef Exceptional Aid Measure (BEAM) was to provide temporary exceptional adjustment aid to farmers in the beef sector in Ireland. The granting of €50 million in EU aid was subject to the conditions set out in EU Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1132. One of the conditions of the BEAM scheme under which funding was provided by the EU was that there had...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Advertising (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) provides public information about a wide range of schemes, services and policies. Advertising is one of the channels used to communicate this information. In the period from 1st January 2022 to 31st January 2023, DAFM incurred expenditure of €843,958.56. This includes expenditure related to a farm safety awareness campaign and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department provides public information about a wide range of schemes, services and policies. I wish to advise the Deputy that the number of staff currently employed in the Communications Division of my Department is set out in the table below. The staffing costs for 2022 and 2023 are in line with the salary scales for the respective civil service grades, which are published by the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Terms and Conditions of the ACRES Scheme require the engagement of an approved ACRES Advisor to prepare and submit the ACRES application, as all applications have to prepared and completed by an approved ACRES Advisor via the Department’s online system and accompanied by a Farm Sustainability Plan. The engagement of an approved ACRES Advisor by a farmer for the purpose of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Iadvise the Deputy that a parcel of land in the townland of Meanus comprising 2.16 hectares was sold by the former Irish Land Commission (ILC) to trustees, to be held subject to the trusts of a Scheme framed and approved under Sections 4 and 20 of the Irish land Acts 1903. A Purchase Agreement was signed in May 1936 and the land was vested by the former ILC in these trustees in October 1948...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Sheep Improvement Scheme (SIS) is funded under Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027. It provides support to sheep farmers for carrying out actions that improve animal health and welfare in the sheep sector and builds on the progress made by the Sheep Welfare Scheme (SWS). The scheme opened for applications in November 2022 and closed on 9th January 2023. I am delighted with the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The fishing effort regime, or kilowatt system, is set down for Western Waters under EU legislation (Council Regulation (EC) No 1954/2003and Council Regulation (EC) No 1415/2004). The effort-based management system was introduced to ensure that there was no increase in the overall levels of fishing effort from the levels in the preceding years and supports the total allowable catch (TAC) and...