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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: There is no conspiracy under way here. This is a positive, progressive measure. We want to get agreement for it to provide us with the legal basis to design a scheme to help to encourage this. In doing so, we will engage with all stakeholders and take all views on board. I would be happy to take the Deputy's and the committee's views on board and have a consultation with them about that?...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: On putting a scheme together, we will assess all those considerations to ensure the forestry is in appropriate places, is environmentally appropriate and that its location is appropriate. It is the finer detail that will be important and which we will bring together if we have the legal capacity to be able to develop such a scheme.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I do not have the figures to hand at the moment. Part of our concern and part of the problem here is because there is so much administration involved for quite a small plantation, they are not happening, even though farmers might want to do them and want them to happen. I am not aware of many such applications in the system. We would like to have many applications like that but for a small...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: It is outside the CAP. All of our forestry programme is outside the CAP strategic plan. It has been and will be this time around as well. It is separate and in addition to the CAP.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: We are on course. We are processing at least in excess of 100 per week at the moment and we are on course to meet 4,000 licences issued this year. That is up from approximately 2,000, from memory, for last year. That was an historic and unacceptable low. We have made progress over the past year, especially in the second and final thirds. There was an interruption over the summer due to a...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Deputy. This is about simplifying how people can grow forestry and making it as straightforward and simple as we can. It is also about having proportionate and appropriate considerations on where it happens and how it integrates. In designing the scheme we will try to make it as streamlined and as sensible as possible, to ultimately ensure there is a good output and a good...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I do not see it having any impact on larger applications that require licences. The key issue is that licence output continues to increase and we address the backlog that is there. I understand that at the moment we do not have many applications of this size. Hopefully, we will start to see farmers taking this on and doing some planting but I do not see it as having an impact on the...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy's sound has gone there but I think he is asking that if a person has two or three plots of land on one farm, can he or she avail of this more than once? It would be sensible if a person could. It is for small-scale plantations. It would not be something that would be open to abuse in the form of putting several together to form a larger plantation that would require a licence....

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The objective here is to plant native woodland. I understand that if something is being supported through a European premium, there would be a plantation obligation or a replantation obligation on it. That is my understanding but I can clarify it for the Deputy on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I reject the notion that there has not been good consultation with the Department, with myself and the Minister of State, Senator Hackett and the sector. I would say there has never been more consultation. There have undoubtedly been real and significant challenges. This time last year we were in a real crisis situation around the supply of wood. We passed emergency legislation then with...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I move amendment No. 6: In page 12, lines 13 and 14, to delete “Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021” and substitute “Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021”.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I move amendment No. 7: In page 12, to delete lines 15 to 17.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I move amendment No. 8: In page 3, line 13, after “marts;” to insert the following: “to amend the to make provision for schemes to facilitate the planting of native tree areas;”.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases remote sensing (i.e. satellite) inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The application of the person named was selected for a 2021 remote sensing eligibility inspection. This inspection has now been completed and the results have...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I am cognisant of the fact that there is substantial diversity in the types and scale of enterprises in the Irish beef sector, and it is in consideration of this that a range of supports are being put in place in the context of the incoming CAP in addition to the Suckler Carbon Efficiency Scheme which will also pay participants €150 on the first 10 cows in the herd. These include Eco...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Livestock Issues (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: Cross compliance Ovine inspections include checks on the Ovine Flock Register (OFR) and verification of the completion and accuracy of the Annual Census. The OFR should contain a complete record of all events occurring to the sheep flock, it should be kept up to date by recording all movement events within seven days of the event occurring. This register must be retained for three yearsafter...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Livestock Issues (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The Sheep Welfare Scheme (SWS) Terms and Conditions requires each applicant to maintain the requisite number of breeding ewes in line with their SWS reference number for that scheme year. In all cases, where an applicant is approved into the scheme on the basis of a particular reference number of breeding ewes, this number of ewes must be retained and made available for inspection where...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Livestock Issues (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: Every reasonable effort is made to minimise any disruption associated with the inspection process. With regard to hill flocks, additional arrangements can be made with the flock holder to accommodate the normal management practices of hill flocks while ensuring that the inspections are carried out in a timely manner as required for payment purposes. The Scheme Terms and Conditions...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: There are a wide variety of items available under the suite of seven measures under TAMS. Solar energy for on-farm use is grant aided under the Animal Welfare Nutrient Storage and Safety Scheme, Young Farmers Capitals Investment Scheme, the Organic Capital Investment Scheme and the Pig and Poultry Scheme measures under TAMS. The solar PV systems grant aided under TAMS includes Solar PV...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Policies (15 Dec 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: In 2021, my Department produced a new Statement of Strategyfor the period from 2021-2024 which sets out the initiatives to be progressed in the coming years under five main goals: Goal 1: To promote and safeguard public, animal and plant health and animal welfare for the benefit of consumers, producers, the economy and wider society Goal 2: Provide income and targeted supports to farmers and...