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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (10 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 processing...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department is fully committed to supporting sustainable, One Health, One Welfare initiatives in line with the Programme for Government and Working Together for Animal Welfare, Ireland's Animal Welfare Strategy 2021-2025. I have asked my officials to support urban horse welfare in the context of this Strategy. My Department continues to support a number of urban horse projects nationwide....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Dogs (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Dog attacks cause serious injury or death to sheep and can cause serious distress and financial loss for farm families. It is of grave concern to the farming community and that attacks on sheep are happening far too often in the rural countryside. Last month, Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys TD and I launched a new awareness campaign ahead of lambing season,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The Programme for Government places a positive emphasis on animal welfare and specifically commits to the continued robust enforcement of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013. This Act provides a modern framework for regulating and applying standards in the area of animal health and welfare and replaced a number of enactments dating back over a century. The Act was passed, after a lengthy...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The Farm Health, Safety and Wellbeing EIPs Open Call was published in December 2020. Following a two-stage application process and evaluation by an expert panel, eight projects were selected for full implementation in July 2021. The eight projects cover a range of actions to improve the safety and wellbeing of farmers and their families. Actions include developing tailored safety training...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Issues (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: As the Deputy will be aware, Brexit has, and will continue, to present challenges for the Irish agri-food sector, in particular for Irish exporters to the British market. This is why the Government, my Department and I continue to engage extensively with Irish agri-food stakeholders on issues related to Brexit and the changing EU-UK trading environment. Since the UK decision to leave the EU...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Data (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I will share separately with the Deputy a detailed table setting out the agri-food exports to each EU Member State for the period 2016 to 2020. On the wider point of the impact of Brexit on Irish exports to EU countries, there is no doubt that, since the UK referendum result in 2016, there has been ongoing uncertainty about how Irish-UK, Irish-EU and UK-EU supply chains will be impacted....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: An application for a tree felling licence was received from the person named in June 2018. The proposed felling site is near designated sites and therefore the possibility of impacts on those sites must be carefully considered. To assist with this, the applicant was initially asked to provide a Natura Impact Statement (NIS). However, upon further examination, it was determined that a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: As the Deputy is likely to be aware, one of the initiatives in the Programme for Government was to conduct a review of the potential demand for wool-based products such as for insulation and fertilisers in domestic and international markets. Wool is a natural substance that is sustainable, organic, renewable and which may be used in a range of products such as textiles, fertilisers, and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 131 and 171 together. Carbon research, specifically around the sequestration of atmospheric carbon to soil, has an important contribution to decarbonise agriculture and facilitate the objectives of my Department’s strategy, Food Vision 2030, and its contribution to Ireland’s Climate Action Plan. Quantifying the carbon sequestered in our...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Schemes (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The burning of household, garden, commercial or industrial waste is prohibited under the Waste Management Regulations 2009. These regulations are under the remit of my colleague, Minister Eamonn Ryan TD. Provision by way of derogation has been available for the burning of permitted farm materials from 1st September to 28th February. This material includes untreated/uncontaminated hedgerow...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Strategies (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: A draft Action Plan to further develop the organic sector is in preparation. It is intended to complement the existing Strategy for the Development of the Organic Sector and to build on the targets set out there. It will also review the main recommendations of the Strategy in light of the commitments set out in the Programme for Government. The current Programme for Government is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department dedicates considerable resources not only to enforcement of animal welfare law but to prevention and education in relation to the welfare of equines. My Department has primary policy responsibility for the welfare of all animals, including equines underpinned by the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 which provides a framework for applying standards in the area of animal...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Promotion (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy may be aware that Food Vision 2030, the new 10-year strategy for the agri-food sector, is an ambitious blueprint for sectoral development with a sharp focus on environmental protection. It includes several actions to develop overseas market opportunities and envisages a sustainable increase in the value of Irish agri-food exports to €21 billion by 2030, driven by value...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The Brexit Adjustment Reserve (BAR) aims to provide financial support to the Member States, regions and sectors most affected by Brexit to deal with the adverse economic, social, territorial and, where appropriate, environmental consequences. Ireland, as the Member State most affected, has received a significant allocation of over €1 billion, or just over 20% of the entire Reserve....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The pilot Soil Sampling and Analysis Programme is a substantial, innovative and very ambitious programme. Such comprehensive analysis at this scale has never been undertaken in Ireland before. A contract was signed with an external service provider on the 19th October with sampling of farms commencing in November and due to continue over the winter and spring months, concluding towards the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: As the Deputy may be aware, one of the key principles of the Directive on Unfair Trading Practices (UTP) in business-to-business relationships in the agricultural and food supply chain is to protect farmers, farmers’ organisations and other weaker suppliers of agricultural and food products against stronger buyers and to, therefore, improve their position in the supply chain. I...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Research Funding (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The Food Vision 2030 Strategy sets out that an expanded horticulture sector would make a valuable contribution to realising a climate-neutral agri-food sector by 2050. From carbon sequestration to enhancing biodiversity, horticultural systems offer many synergies and co-benefits between environmental, economic and social sustainability. Since 2015, my Department has awarded more than...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I assure the Deputy that my policy and the policy of Government is clear and consistent - animal cruelty is totally unacceptable. My Department operates a confidential animal welfare helpline through which members of the public can report incidents of animal cruelty or neglect. In addition to its own staff, the Department has a service level agreement with a number of organisations -...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: It my clear ambition to eradicate BVD from the herd as soon as possible and I believe the finishing line is in sight. The Deputy may be aware that the BVD eradication programme is coordinated and managed by Animal Health Ireland under the direction of the BVD Implementation Group which consists of a range of industry stakeholders, including my Department. The BVD Implementation Group is...