Results 5,501-5,520 of 23,950 for speaker:Charlie McConalogue
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: Some of it goes back but my point is that people were awaiting the new afforestation rates. Those rates are now in place. Only time will tell, but I expect there would have been a lower conversion rate last year because people were waiting on the new premiums to come in and there is every possibility there will be a higher conversion rate of licences to plantations once the new rates are in...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: I do not have that figure with me. I do not have the update here.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: It is in excess of 1,000 ha. I will come back to the Deputy directly with the data we have on that.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: I am told that 1,000 ha were planted in January.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: That is correct. We will communicate directly about it-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: Yes.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: We will communicate on that. It is a significant step change. At the end of last year, everything planted was on the old rates. There are now new rates in place that are up to 66% higher than the previous rates. I expect there to be a spurt on the back of the new rates being in place. Our whole messaging to farmers-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: We should be. Our message to farmers with a licence is that the rates are now 66% higher for many of those than they were just two months ago and everybody who plants this month or planted last month will now get those premiums tax free for 20 years rather than for 15 years as would have been the case if they planted last year. My clear message to everyone who is sitting on a licence is...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: I will get a note on that. The rate is €12. There have been 19,100 applications. As regards the rates, we budgeted on the basis that it will be €12 for sheep. We will have no limit in this regard. Anyone who applies will be accommodated. If we need to readjust the budgets slightly to make sure we accommodate all applicants, we will do that. As of now, 19,100 have applied.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: That is correct.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: I will be making sure everybody is covered.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: This is an issue I discussed at many of our Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, consultation meetings around the country. We have programmed in the areas of natural constraint scheme for each year of the CAP up to 2027 at €250 million, which is maintaining it at its previous level. That comes as part of an overall increase of 50% in our national co-funding of Pillar 2. Obviously, we...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: Even when an unprecedented increase of 50% in national co-funding for Pillar 2 is being delivered, choices still have to be made in respect of where that is allocated. We have significant increases in ACRES as well as other environmental schemes, beef, organics and so on but, as part of that, we are maintaining ANC. Overall, all of that funding is making its way to farmers. That 50%...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: Certainly not.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: Certainly not, Deputy.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: I told the Deputy the whole story.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: I gave the Deputy the full picture.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: I have done so and I have given the full picture in terms of the context in which that payment is being maintained. Other schemes are being significantly increased and, ultimately, all that funding will be going to farmers.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: I have asked farmers in every county, Deputy.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Charlie McConalogue: The programme is being maintained. We will move other funding into it if it is being maintained. The 11% is-----