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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (5 Jul 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department has procured the services of consulting engineers and the detailed design for the Deep Water Quay Project is at an advanced stage. Additionally, the consulting engineers will manage the tender process for construction works, supervise the construction works, and in due course handover completed construction works back to my Department. My Department is being advised by the...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I welcome an important step in this legislation coming before the House. It is a crucial step in ensuring that homeowners in my own county and many other counties can get their lives back on track and try to remove themselves from the nightmare that they have been living for well over a decade. Like every other person in Donegal, I have neighbours, family and friends affected. If...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (30 Jun 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Of the 12 State Bodies under the aegis of my Department, one is registered as a Charity. I am advised that Teagasc is registered for charitable status within the meaning of Section 207, Taxes Consolidation Act, 1997 under Charity Reference Number 2002275. The registration was progressed having regard to the principal functions of Teagasc as outlined in Section 4 of the Agriculture...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (30 Jun 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Project Woodland was established by Minister of State Pippa Hackett, who has overall responsibility for the sector, over a year ago to improve the forestry licensing system and deal with the backlog, and to drive forward the planting of trees under a shared vision for forestry in Ireland. As part of the work undertaken, a legal and regulatory review of forestry licensing has...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (30 Jun 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Project Woodland was established as a collaborative mechanism to engage stakeholders in developing a new vision for the forestry sector and improving the licensing system. Significant progress has been made. All recommendations are actively in progress, with some completed. I will take this opportunity to summarise progress on specific items. An end-to-end review of the licensing...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (30 Jun 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine gives detailed guidance on how to apply for licences to plant trees, build road and carry out felling and this guidance is clearly laid out on the forestry page of the Department's website.   In addition forestry related circulars are issued to the forestry sector on a regular basis throughout the year to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Turf Cutting (30 Jun 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has no role in the regulation of use of turf banks.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jun 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The objective of the Beef Environmental Efficiency Programme – Suckler (BEEP - S) is to further increase economic and environmental efficiency in the suckler herd through better quality data on herd performance, supporting decision making on farm and support of best practice in welfare management. In addition to the mandatory weighing requirement, participants had the choice...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jun 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Farmers are required, on an annual basis, to submit a Basic Payment Scheme application to support their claim for all area based payment schemes.  This application must detail the lands being farmed in the current year including any commonage lands. The Department is required to ensure that all claimants on commonage land have the required documentary evidence to support their right...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jun 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: A new agri-environmental scheme to be known as the Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (‘ACRES’), has been proposed as part of Ireland’s draft CAP Strategic Plan which is currently with the EU Commission for approval. We have committed €1.5 billion in funding for the scheme over the lifetime of the next CAP - the largest single investment by any Government in an...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Feedstuffs (30 Jun 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy may be aware that I established the National Fodder and Food Security Committee in March.  I tasked the Committee with preparing a multi-sectoral response to identify those issues that will arise for feed, fodder, fertiliser and other inputs, and to develop contingency plans and advice to assist farmers in managing their farm enterprises.  Central at that time...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (30 Jun 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: On the 12th of January 2022, I announced a support scheme for the inshore fisheries sector to assist inshore fishers in adjusting to the impacts of Brexit on their businesses.  The Brexit Inshore Fisheries Business Model Adjustment Scheme was implemented over the period January to March 2022 and is closed since 31 March.  Some 754 inshore fishing vessel owners received aid...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Jun 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputy Michael Collins for the question. I am taken by his change of approach to the decommissioning fund. He constantly opposed it in the House previously. I note he is seeking for it to be----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Jun 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I see the Deputy is supporting the fund now and seeking an early date.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Jun 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: We are engaged with the European Commission in terms of getting approval for the scheme. I hope to have approval soon and to have the scheme up and running as quickly as possible. There is a challenging situation at the moment for fuel and the cost is impacting on fishermen. I am meeting all fisheries representative organisations next week to discuss this issue. I have been in close...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (29 Jun 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I was pleased to announce on 12 May a new €45 million Brexit Processing Capital Support Scheme. The scheme delivers on a recommendation of the Seafood Taskforce and offers grant rates of between 30% and 50% for capital investment in SME seafood processing enterprises, varying depending on the degree of value adding in the project.  The scheme is designed to counter the adverse...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (29 Jun 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The total funding for the CSP for the period 2023-2027 is €9.83 billion. The EU budget agreement in 2020 provided a total CAP funding for Ireland of €7.53 billion over the five-year period from 2023 to 2027. This funding is split between Pillar I (Direct Payments and Sectoral Interventions - €5.97 billion) and Pillar II (Rural Development - €1.56 billion). ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Reports (29 Jun 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The Agile Executive group, a consortium made up of experts from Munster Technological University and Donegal Yarns, who were appointed to carry out the wool review have now competed this review and have presented their final report to my Department. This report will be published very shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 Jun 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Both I and the Department are fully committed to encouraging the use of Low Emission Spreading Equipment (LESS) equipment. To date, interest in grant aid for the purchase of LESS equipment under the Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS) has been very strong. An indicative budget of €395m was made available for TAMS under the current RDP (2014-2020). The...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 Jun 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Some 15,493 farmers have applied to participate in both the Beef Environmental Efficiency Programme - Suckler (BEEP-S) and the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) for 2022.  Payments under the BDGP and BEEP-S schemes are scheduled to issue in December 2022.