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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: I thank the witnesses for their opening statements, for being here and for all of the work the Department's staff do to ensure farmers get their payments. That needs to be acknowledged from the outset. It is a big task and we recognise that. To go back to ACRES, one of the frustrations for farmers was they applied for the scheme, there was a lot of work involved with planners coming out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: “Simplification” is the word we continually hear echoing around everything.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: Non-productive investments were mentioned in the second-last paragraph of the opening statement. This is another issue for farmers in that they did not know when they were going to get paid. We are now almost halfway in and many farmers still do not know what is happening. Can anything be done to reassure people with regard to the money they had hoped to get when they went into the scheme?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: To come back to the TAMS issue, the Minister has flagged there may be an order of ranking in TAMS going forward. Do we know where that will be at? What will be prioritised and will not be? Obviously, the level of funding is getting a little bit tight in respect of that. How much additional funding would need to be in place to ensure that would not happen, that is, there would not be that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: If additional money was required, how much?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: Up until now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: Will it take another 10%? More than that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: With regard to the sheep welfare scheme and the beef welfare scheme, which have substantial enough funding in them, are there issues and delays there? I have come across a few. What would be the main problems in dealing with those?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: There were issues for a lot of farmers that they had to do it online. That was a problem for some of them. They had to do it online, through Microsoft Teams, and a lot of farmers were not equipped for that, particularly elderly farmers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: We have gone around the houses a fair bit on this. The frustration, certainly with regard to ACRES, is that there was such a long delay and uncertainty as to when farmers would get paid and where they stood. Farmers could not get through to the Department and could not get any answers. They were on to politicians and everyone else to try to get answers for them, but they could not get...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: My constituency runs along the border of Sligo-Leitrim into south Donegal. The people in Kiltyclogher and Cashel are the same people. People in some parts of Ireland do not understand that. They are related to each other. They are the same people in every way. Their farms straddle the Border. We all understand that yet this artificial division made on the island of Ireland almost 100...

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister for his opening statement. I will probably chop and change a little bit between the sections but there are a couple of issues there. As the Minister mentioned, we had his officials in from the Department and from the TB forum in regard to TB. It is a fairly major section of this. The Minister mentioned this and how he is prepared to discuss it in more detail. One of...

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: Is the model of farming we have in Ireland going to make it more difficult? Countries where it has been successful have a different model, and that is where I think we have to acknowledge-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: I propose four minutes per member to allow everyone to get in, in case members go over time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: We have indicated already.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: It could be 40% in some areas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: That suggests that badgers are a carrier in those areas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: The fact that we have a grass-fed system and free roaming animals, unlike in other countries where cattle are more housed, is probably one of the reasons wildlife is a bigger factor. We are not going to change that system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: It is obviously not going to change. The result of the testing and all of the work that has been done up to now and the suggestions coming forward from the forum is that we should basically do more of the same in a more effective way. That is basically what the Department is talking about trying to do. I am interested in teasing out the evidence that this will work considering the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: Is there the same level of movement of cattle from farm to farm in New Zealand?