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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: 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 a matter for RCÉ and,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: 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 a matter for RCÉ and,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pesticide Use (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: Department officials are engaging in on-going correspondence with the named company regarding their existing and new applications for authorisation to place plant protection products (pesticides) on the Irish market. These applications are being processed taking the named company’s priorities into account and officials have informed the applicant about recent decisions. Officials...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: The welfare of equines is protected by legislation and appropriate enforcement action is undertaken by my Department and authorised officers under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013, including An Garda Síochána, Customs agents, authorised officers appointed by local authorities, the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) and the Dublin Society for the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: The advance payment claim associated with this herd in respect of participation in ACRES in 2024 has not yet issued because the required soil sample documents had not been submitted. I can confirm that the soil sample documents were received on Monday 3rd March 2025. The application will now be validated against the remaining prepayment checks. Once all checks have been passed successfully,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: The person named was accepted into ACRES General Tranche 1, with a contract commencement date of January 1st 2023. An advance payment of €5,040.15 issued to the herd owner in December 2023 in respect of their participation in the Scheme in 2023. The 2023 balance payment claim was held due to a penalty issue. This issue has now been resolved. Once all prepayment validations have...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: The person named was accepted into ACRES General Tranche 1, with a contract commencement date of January 1st 2023. An advance payment of €5,736.67 issued to the herd owner in December 2023 in respect of their participation in the Scheme in 2023. The issue that had been preventing this case from passing the required validations for the balancing payment for 2023 has been...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: The person named was accepted into ACRES General Tranche 1, with a contract commencement date of January 1st 2023. An advance payment of €5,912.94 issued to the herd owner in December 2023 in respect of their participation in the Scheme in 2023. My Department has identified the cause of the issue that has been preventing this case from passing the required validations for the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: The person named was accepted into ACRES General Tranche 1, with a contract commencement date of January 1st 2023. I can confirm that all ACRES payments in respect of 2023 have been finalised for this participant. The advance payment claim associated with this herd in respect of 2024 has not yet cleared all the necessary prepayment validation checks. My Department is actively working to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: Fishing vessels of any non-EU country may not fish in EU waters, including Irish waters, unless there is an agreement in place allowing them to do so. There is no such agreement in place between the EU and Iceland, the Faroes or Russia. The current reciprocal access between EU and UK waters is provided for in the EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement. The level of access for Norwegian...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Regulations (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: The recent storms have resulted in considerable hardship throughout the country. We are taking all possible steps to facilitate an appropriate response to allow forest owners to clear blown trees in a safe and sustainable manner. As regards forestry and powerlines, the legislative provisions reside in section 98 of the Electricity (Supply) Act 1927, as amended by Section 45 of the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: I reassure Deputy Healy-Rae that the GAEC 2 proposals will not have negative impacts for farmers. These baseline elements were agreed as part of the CAP strategic plan in 2021. Ireland had a derogation in 2022 and 2023 while we put a proposal together. We are the last remaining country in Europe to make a proposal in this space. We would have been in breach since 1 January 2025 if we did...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: -----and have new drainage in line with existing national planning legislation.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: It has nothing to do with that.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Industry (5 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: I acknowledge Deputy Aird's first contribution in the Dáil. It is a great honour and privilege to have him as a colleague here. We first served together on a regional health forum with the HSE back when were we councillors. To be serving with the Deputy here now is a great honour and I look forward to working with him. I do not doubt his passion in representing the people of Laois...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Industry (5 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: I thank the Deputy. The climate action plan has provided a pathway for reducing our land use, land use change and forestry emissions since 2021 and commits to the implementation of reduced management intensity on a portion of Ireland’s drained organic soils. This is a relatively new area of work in Ireland, with much uncertainty and complexity. If we are to reduce emissions from...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (5 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: The following are the details of the funding provided by my Department to the named organisation for inspections from 2019 to 2024 . Year Project title Amount Paid 2019 Inspections within the named organisation €23,543 2020 Inspections within the named organisation €21,856 ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (5 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: My Department has not provided any funding to the named organisation for linear profile training since 2019.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (5 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: The following are the details of the funding provided by my Department to the named organisation in 2023 and 2024. Year Project title Amount Paid 2023 Stand at Dublin Horse Show (RDS) €8,218.51 2023 Promotion at centenary and market to global audience €5,000.00 2023 ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Státseirbhís (5 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: Tá 3944 ball foirne i mo Roinn. Is ann do 4 phost i mo Roinn inarb éigean don oifigeach caighdeán Gaeilge riachtanach a shásamh. Tá na poist sin lonnaithe i gceantair Ghaeltachta, i.e. oifigí na n-ionad iascaigh cuain i Ros an Mhíl, Co. na Gaillimhe agus Daingean Uí Chúis, Co. Chiarraí. Tá an inniúlacht riachtanach sa Ghaeilge ag...