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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (3 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department does not provide direct supports for contractors but, as small businesses, they are of course eligible for the same supports as every other small business. In relation to capital investments for on-farm developments, I would like to clarify that the EU regulations that provide for the Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS) under the Rural Development Programme...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (3 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Coillte is a private limited company established under the Forestry Act 1988 and, as such, is operationally independent from my Department. I have, therefore, referred the matter to Coillte for direct follow-up with the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (3 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I am committed to helping the Forgotten farmers cohort. The Programme for Government ‘Our Shared Future’ contains a commitment to seek to resolve the issue of support for the category of farmers known as Forgotten Farmers. I have asked officials in my Department to examine options to address the issue of forgotten farmers both through the next CAP and also through other measures...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (3 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 472 and 473 together. Horse Racing Ireland (HRI), established under the Horse and Greyhound Racing Act 2001, is a commercial State Body responsible for the overall administration, promotion and development of the horse racing industry. The Irish Horse Racing Industry Act 1994 and The Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies 2016 (Remuneration and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (3 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Ireland's draft CAP Strategic Plan 2023 – 2027 which lists the range of interventions currently being proposed, was submitted to the EU Commission on 31st December 2021. As you may be aware, one of the intervention proposed therein is an agri-environment climate measure (AECM). This proposed measure includes a Rare Breeds action. The details of the proposed scheme are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (3 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The objective of the 2021 BEEP-S was to further increase economic and environmental efficiency in the suckler herd though improvement in the quantity and quality of performance data that is collected. The scheme opened for applications on 16th March 2021 and closed without late penalty on 26th April 2021. It remained open, albeit with a late penalty from 27th April 2021 until 21st May 2021. ...

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

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) issued 4,050 forestry licences last year, which is an increase of 56% on the number issued in 2020 . In terms of the categories of each type of licence issued, these approvals included 2,877 felling licences. Critically, the availability of this volume of timber, at nearly 8.5 million cubic metres, stabilised supply to the...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his comments. This has been a bizarre debate. This is the second amendment. During the debate on the first amendment, pretty much all the Opposition speakers spent their time telling me that I changed my opinion when I moved from one side of the House to the other. They told me that now I am on the Government side of the House I am peddling a different set...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: As per what Deputy Mac Lochlainn read out, I have always been measured and anchored in logic in any arguments I have made. The Deputy tried earlier, in his first contribution, to equate what he was saying with what I had said previously. As is clear from what he read out from my contribution that night, I said that the Department's track record in bringing forward a statutory instrument was...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I did not personalise it.

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy is attacking the fishing-----

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank all of the Deputies for their contributions to the legislation and on this initial amendment. Given we had dealt with this on Committee Stage previously, I do not propose to accept the amendment. I have given in great detail my rationale and logic as to why that is the case. It has been subject to very significant interrogation and assessment going back to when it was in the...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I do not propose to accept this amendment. The reason, as with the previous amendment, is that we have to decide what is proportionate and sensible to put into primary legislation, as opposed to dealing with it through policy and regulation. For example, the particular proposal the Deputy is putting forward will be accommodated fully in the scheme and the regulations. The amendment does...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Deputy Carthy and I are at one with regard to the importance of ensuring that this is accommodated in the scheme that is put in place. As with those other points I mentioned, this issue will be accommodated through policy and guidelines so it is not necessary or appropriate to put it into the primary legislation. I assure the Deputy that such matters will be fully taken into account in the...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputies Carthy and Browne for the amendment. This is already provided for in section 9(d) of the Bill with the requirement on the Minister to provide, by regulation, for a scheme to facilitate the planting of native tree areas. It is, therefore, provided in the Bill that the Minister would do that by way of regulation. This provides that the legislation to establish a scheme must...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Again, I understand the point the Deputy made. I believe it is already well provided for in the legislation. As we know, I spent much time at the Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine earlier today. I have spent a lot of time talking about forestry in the agriculture committee previously, as indeed has the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, who has done Trojan work in bringing...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked about the 1 ha threshold. We are trying to make it as easy and as practical as possible for farmers to be able to plant up to 1 ha without a licence. Under the current legislation, the situation which has been in place for many years now, the threshold is 0.1 ha. Anything over 0.1 ha has required a licence for many years but anything under 0.1 ha has not. We...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Members for their opening contributions on the first amendment to the Bill tonight. The purpose of this legislation is to prohibit fur farming in Ireland, provide for a compensation scheme for the farmers affected and introduce other miscellaneous amendments to the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013. The legislation also introduces some unrelated but important amendments to the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (2 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The undertaking of this first equine census in November 2021 is one of a series of measures I am initiating to support the welfare of horses and other equidae and was one of my Department’s listed priorities for 2021. The new EU Animal Health Law obliges all keepers notify the habitual residence of equines in their care to my Department. The census facilitates keepers complying with...