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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (8 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Access to the records of the former Land Commission is governed by the Land Acts Purchase Rules 1939 (S.I. No 341 of 1939) which provides for the provision of certified copy documents to vendors, purchasers and their successors in titles, and the Data Protection Act 2018 (No. 7 of 2018), which provides that data may be processed for archiving in the public interest, or for scientific or...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The maintenance of roadside hedges is covered under section 70 of the Roads Act 1993, which states that “the owner or occupier of land shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that a tree shrub, hedge or other vegetation on the land is not a hazard or potential hazard to persons using a public road and that it does not obstruct or interfere with the safe use of a public road". ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (8 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I can confirm that, in the version of Ireland's draft CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027 as submitted to the European Commission, there is a clerical error in section 4.1.2.4.6 (Decision regarding the inclusion of other species, such as shrubs and/or trees, which could be grazed and/or which produce animal feed, where grasses and other herbaceous forage are traditionally not predominant or are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I refer to the three forestry licence applications, two for tree felling and one for a forest road works licence, submitted to my Department on behalf of the applicants. An application for the first tree felling licence, reference ending in 21, was received in March, 2021.  An updated harvest map was received in January this year and considered as part of the application...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 771 and 773 together. Details of the 2022 dairy beef calf measure are currently being finalised and will be announced shortly.  In relation to future of the scheme in 2023 and beyond, as the Deputy may be aware, a continuation of this measure is proposed as part of Ireland's CAP strategic plan which was submitted to the EU Commission at the end of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Information on the 2021 Dairy Beef Calf Scheme is attached as requested. No extra funding was required for the scheme in 2021. COUNTY HERDS TOTAL WEIGHINGS TOTAL PAID CARLOW 81 1740 €26,445.60 CAVAN 174 3423 €55,029.20 CLARE 335 ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The Hen Harrier Programme is operationally independent of my Department and is run by the Hen Harrier Project Ltd. I can confirm that the habitat payment for 2021 for the person in question has recently been issued to him by the Hen Harrier Project Ltd. His annual works balancing payment has been approved by the Department and will issue to the Hen Harrier Project Ltd in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Applications from participants in the 2020 Beef Data and Genomics Programme who were deemed eligible to continue their participation in the BDGP 2021 transitional programme could be submitted using the Department’s online facility through www.agfood.ie either by the applicant themselves or by an individual authorised to act on their behalf. The opening...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Farmers in all areas of the country will be able to participate in the proposed new agri-environment climate measure (AECM) under the next CAP Strategic Plan (CSP). The new AECM Scheme will have a General stream and a Co-Operation stream.  The Co-Operation stream will be managed by new Co-Operation Project teams. The map for the Co-Operation stream of the new...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Protected Disclosures (8 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: As required under the relevant legislation, my Department has a Protected Disclosures Policy in place under which a staff member who wishes to make a protected disclosure may do so to any of the following confidential recipients: - an independent confidential service engaged for this purpose, - the Head of the Internal Audit Unit in the Department, or - any...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Senators for their contributions. There is a clear recognition that the State has decided to close down this industry and as a result of that is impacting on three farms and the livelihoods of those farmers as well as their employees. The objective has always been to be fair and reasonable in recognition of the impact of what we are doing. There has been ongoing engagement with fur...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Acting Chairman and I thank all of the Senators for their contributions. Some of the issues included the repurposing. I have clearly said that this would be dealt with. I will deal with this as part of the regulation, for which I have the capacity. My clear advice is that I have the capacity, as it stands, to be able to do that. Likewise, with regard to additional financial...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I was taken aback when coming here today and I realised that we were only in for one hour and were adjourning for the day at 3.45 p.m. We must work our way through this legislation and finalise it. The breeding season is due to start normally around now. The onus is on me and the responsibility is on me as the Minister, on behalf of the Government, to engage with the farmers to bring this...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (3 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Information is available from late 2019 for logs moving from Britain to Ireland. The Pest Free Area (PFA) of South West of Scotland is the only zone from which coniferous roundwood with bark is imported into Ireland. This is because UK Forest Commission have surveyed and continue to survey and found it to be free from Protected Zone (PZ)  bark beetles. This roundwood must be accompanied...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pigmeat Sector (3 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I am acutely aware of the challenges that Irish pig farmers are currently facing, due to a combination of extremely low prices and extraordinarily high input costs. I, along with other Agriculture Ministers, have called for an integrated EU-wide approach and for the Commission to deploy appropriate solutions to the current crisis. However, the Commission has consistently directed...

Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Senator for amendments Nos. 1 and 11. The issue of the standard of proof to be used by the determination panel and the appeals officer being "on the balance of probabilities" has been raised by industry on a number of occasions, including on Committee Stage in the Dáil and on previous Stages in the Seanad. It was also raised during pre-legislative scrutiny. The legal...

Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: While I have described it and have compared it to the penalty points system for motor traffic offences, which again is the civil sphere, it is penalty points we are talking about here, not criminal convictions. That is why the balance of probabilities is being used in regard to defining a civil penalty, a civil penalty being the application of a penalty point on a licence. If after accruing...

Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The difference is that while penalty points for drivers are ultimately part of the criminal system, the penalty points system for fishermen is not. It is purely administrative. There is a requirement on us to have such a system within the European situation. There are appeals mechanisms but they are not in the courts. They are through determination panels, so a person can appeal, but he...

Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Senator Boylan. The effect of these amendments, if they were taken together, would appear to be to expand the scope of the penalty points system for masters provided for under the Bill currently to encompass masters who are citizens of another member state as distinct from Irish citizens. The amendments would require in effect that the Minister would have to set up a register to...

Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Concerns were raised about this section in the context of the equivalent provision in the licenceholder system and then in pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of the Bill. The issue of points being removed where the master is found not guilty in criminal proceedings in respect of the infringement was raised. This proposal would involve both systems being interlinked. They would...