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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (7 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: As part of the work of the TB Forum, a dedicated Financial Working Group comprising representatives from my Department and the farming organisations had been set up to review the current financial model of the TB programme. The Financial Working Group has reached agreement on changes to the TB compensation schemes and the funding of these schemes under the TB programme as well as support...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Renewable Energy Generation (7 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: A PV installer subcontracting the installation, commissioning and signing off of the installation of TAMS grant aided PV solar systems to persons or companies not registered with his Department invalidates the TAMS approval. This is for individual installations and a TAMS grant will not be paid to the applicant. This is the case even where persons or companies are registered with the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Renewable Energy Generation (7 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) does not monitor my Department's registered solar PV installers list per se, rather it monitors its own registered solar PV installers list. Effectively almost all of the companies and businesses on my Department’s registered list are also on the SEAI registered solar PV installers list. The monitoring process employed by the SEAI...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (7 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy will be aware that the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is involved in intensive discussions with the EU Commission to secure state aid approval for the ambitious and attractive forestry programme. I am also acutely aware of the pressures some foresters are currently experiencing. It is crucially important that there are registered foresters available to help us...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (7 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department’s understanding is that Galway County Council was to set up a Steering Committee to oversee any future development in Cleggan Harbour and to date this committee still has not been convened. My Department has responsibility for the upkeep and maintenance of a small number of specific piers, lights and beacons throughout Ireland, which were constructed under the auspices of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (2 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I was pleased to recently announce the new and expanded range of investments under TAMS 3. This makes it our largest every on-farm capital investment scheme. I have introduced some changes to TAMS under TAMS 3 to continue to align it with overall agriculture and environmental priorities.   On the dairy sector, the list of potential investments is larger than ever before. In...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (2 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The person named was approved to GLAS 3 with a contract commencement date of 1st January 2017. Payments have issued to this Herd for scheme years 2017 – 2020  inclusive.  The GLAS advance payment for 2021 issued on 16th November 2021. An administrative penalty was imposed on this application in respect of the Curlew action.  Processing of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (2 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I was delighted to see that so many farmers applied for ACRES, indicating their willingness to farm for the benefit of the environment and society.  The submission of over 46,000 applications shows the level of interest in participating in an agri-environment scheme.  The Scheme forms part of Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027 which is the successor to Ireland’s...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (2 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I was delighted to see that so many farmers applied for ACRES, indicating their willingness to farm for the benefit of the environment and society.  The submission of over 46,000 applications shows the level of interest in participating in an agri-environment scheme.  The Scheme forms part of Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027 which is the successor to Ireland’s...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (2 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: When cattle are slaughtered as reactors under the TB eradication programme, it is because they have tested positive for infection with TB. It is not routine to culture all TB reactors. In 2022, 23,393 (provisional figure) cattle have been slaughtered as reactors under the TB eradication programme, as they are deemed to be infected with the TB disease agent. The test specificity is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (2 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: As the organism that causes TB in cattle is a particularly slow growing organism, the maximum length of time for the culture process, including speciation of bacteria is 10 weeks in conformity with international standards. The minimum length of the time for the culture process for positive samples, including speciation of bacteria is approximately three weeks. The minimum length of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Sector Pensions (2 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Rásaíocht Con Éireann (RCÉ) is a commercial state body, established under the Greyhound Industry Act, 1958 chiefly to control greyhound racing and to improve and develop the greyhound industry. RCÉ is a body corporate and a separate legal entity to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.  The question raised by the Deputy is an...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (2 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The EU regulations (Article 17 of EU Regulation 1305/2013) that provide for the TAMS scheme under the RDP 2014 – 2020, specify that TAMS II beneficiaries must be farmers or groups of farmers. The regulatory transitional provisions for support from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) in the years 2021 and 2022 do not alter this definition.  These are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (2 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) is a commercial state body established under the Horse and Greyhound Racing Act, 2001, and is responsible for the overall administration, promotion and development of the horse racing industry.  The question raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for HRI, therefore, the question has been referred to the body for direct reply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: This is an important issue and the direction of travel in terms of what we want to achieve here is to improve the biodiversity and environmental assets we have in our countryside. That is very much the objective of the various schemes we have in place. Under the agri-climate rural environment scheme, ACRES, and, in particular, the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS, previously,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: We engaged very closely with the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, and across Government Departments. The Deputy is right that co-operation measures are the way to go here. There are lots of steps we need to take on land management but also birdlife management and providing habitats that require farmers to work together. That is why the co-operation measures are in place. Working...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Absolutely. I can indeed. The Deputy is correct. Particularly around the setting of the climate targets and what the figure would be for agriculture, there was a sense out there among some that what we were talking about was a percentage reduction in food production or a percentage reduction in our herd. That is not what we want to do. We want to cut and reduce our emissions profile....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Perfect. I respect the Deputy’s acknowledgement of the ongoing work. He played a massive role in setting this course when he was Minister responsible for our initial climate action plan and putting in place metrics as to how that would be monitored. On the biodigestion and anaerobic digestion, our target is that by 2030, 10% of all of our national gas requirement will be produced...