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Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." As Deputies will be aware, the programme for Government included a commitment to ensure fairness, equity and transparency in the food chain by establishing a new authority to enforce the unfair trading practices directive. The commitment was also that the new office would have a specific role in analysing and reporting on price and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Funding of €8 million was announced for a Liming Measure as part of Budget 2023. Soil and environmental protection are key considerations for the Government. The Liming Measure is being introduced by my Department to incentivise the use of lime, a natural soil conditioner, which corrects soil acidity by neutralising the acids present in the soil and in turn allows for an improvement in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishery Harbour Centres (19 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: In my capacity as Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, I have made visiting farms, piers and food businesses in all counties a key priority of my tenure. I will continue to visit coastal communities in 2023. These communities are the bedrock of our seafood sector. I am finalising my diary for Q1 of 2023 but I look forward engaging with these communities in the weeks ahead.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The 1980 Agreement is the main bilateral agreement governing the EU's fisheries relations with Norway. It covers the North Sea, Skagerrak and the North East Atlantic, and allows for the setting of Total Allowable Catches (TACs) for joint stocks, transfers of fishing possibilities, joint technical measures and issues relating to control and enforcement. The main issues of concern for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy will be aware that on 2nd November 2022, I launched the 2023 Fodder Support Scheme, which builds on the success of the 2022 Fodder Support Scheme. The 2022 Scheme had over 71,000 applicants, with payments totalling €54 million issuing to farmers in December 2022. The 2023 Fodder Support Scheme is the successor to the 2022 Scheme and aims to incentivise farmers, in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calafoirt agus Céanna (19 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Cúis áthais dom a chur in iúl don Teachta Dála go bhfuil sé beartaithe ag na conraitheoirí atá ceaptha chun tabhairt faoi thionscadal na Cé Domhainmhara tús a chur leis an obair ag an láthair sna laethanta beaga amach romhainn. Bhuail ionadaithe ó mo Roinn agus comhairleoirí an tionscadail le hionadaithe ó Chomhairle Contae na...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 393 to 397, inclusive, together. The Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) is the agri-environment climate measure in Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan 2023 – 2027. It is a voluntary scheme whereby farmers, when approved into the Scheme, will undertake certain environmental actions on their land for at least five years. There are two...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) sets down a legal framework for the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources. Within this legal framework, I consistently work to support the interests of inshore fishers. Bord Bia has responsibility for the promotion and marketing of Irish food in domestic and international markets and continues to work closely with the seafood...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Coillte is a private limited company established under the Forestry Act 1988 and is operationally independent of the Minister and Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. I am, therefore, not in position to comment on any operational issues relating to the establishment of the new investment fund. The primary aim of the proposed new Forestry Programme is to enable Ireland to use...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (18 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1737 and 1738 together. There are a wide variety of items available under the suite of seven measures under the Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS) II. To date, total expenditure under the seven measures of the TAMS II, including transitional expenditure, is €390m with commitments of an additional €117m made to scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Data (18 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Data for imports is currently available for 2022 up to the end of September. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) uses the Trade Control and Expert System (TRACES) system to record sheep movements in terms of both imports and exports for the purposes of slaughter, breeding and fattening. Up to the end of September 2022 a total of 291,966 sheep were imported from the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (18 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The intra-EU movement of animals is recorded on the Trade Control and Expert System (TRACES), which is the EU-wide online management tool for all sanitary and phytosanitary requirements on intra-EU trade and importation of animals, semen and embryo, food, feed and plants. My Department uses the TRACES system for official certification of sheep movements in terms of both imports and exports...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (18 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The exportation of slurry from holdings is facilitated and managed by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine online movement system. On an annual basis, farmers availing of the facility to export slurry must submit records online to DAFM by 31December each year and farmers operating in Derogation must do so by 31stOctober. As part of Ireland's 5thNitrates Action Programme review...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inshore Fisheries (18 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: In December 2018, following a public consultation process in which over 900 submissions were received, as Minister you announced that vessels over 18m will be excluded from trawling in inshore waters inside the six nautical mile zone and the baselines from 1 January 2020. A transition period of three years for vessels over 18m targeting sprat was allowed to enable adjustment for these...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (18 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy may be aware that all animals entering Ireland are subject to EU sanitary requirements. These requirements are in place to reduce the risk of importation and spread disease. The requirements for animals generally to enter Ireland are outlined in the EU Animal Health Law, Regulation (EU) 429/2016. The specific requirements for a pet (dog, cat ferret) to enter Ireland are outlined in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (18 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1744, 1745, 1746, 1748, 1793 and 1794 together. There are a variety of reasons as to why there has been a gradual decline in afforestation rates in recent years. Since the first finding of ash dieback disease in Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has provided support totalling over €7 million to owners of ash plantations...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (18 Jan 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 operational matter for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (18 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1749 and 1750 together. Following the first confirmed finding of Ash Dieback disease in October 2012, on imported trees used in forestry plantations, my Department has carried out surveys for the disease every year. In addition to forest surveys, my staff conducted surveys in horticultural nurseries, garden centres, private gardens, roadside landscaping and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harriers (18 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I understand the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (National Parks & Wildlife Service) oversee national hen harrier surveys every five years, taking in forest land, farmland and upland moorland. Annual surveys have also been undertaken in recent years under the auspices of the Hen Harrier Environmental Innovation Project (EIP), to measure the success of farm...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (18 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy will be aware that the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has recently secured funding of €1.3 billion for the Forestry Programme 2023-2027. Subject to State Aid approval, this will support the biggest and best-funded Forestry Programme to date in Ireland and will assist forest owners in the sustainable management of their forests. The draft Forestry...