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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Martin Kenny: There is a difficulty with producer organisations. For many farmers, they do not go from start to finish. Where I am from in the west, farmers generally produce weanlings but they have neither the land nor the capacity to finish animals. They must sell their animals on to other farmers who can do that, so there is a break in the chain. One of the flaws that exists is that farmers cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Nov 2018)

Martin Kenny: I thank Mr. Dillon for his comprehensive report. I wish to focus on the categorisation of land within the scheme. Most of the farmers in the west and north-west would be working mountain-type land or land that is considered disadvantaged or more severely handicapped. The areas where land is of less severely handicapped are in the midlands and the south. Will the categorisation of land...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Nov 2018)

Martin Kenny: ...farmers everywhere need support and to be helped and given every assistance possible, we ensure that they are productive and have sustainable farms. This scheme relates to the constraint of the land and therefore should be paid on that. We should not lose that focus. I would like reassurance that there is a clear commitment to pay it on that basis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2018: Motion (27 Nov 2018)

Martin Kenny: ...of the Department were before the committee earlier to talk about the areas of natural constraints. These are not areas of natural constraints. Farmers in County Tipperary say they cannot buy land. They cannot compete with the big stud farms that come in and buy land from everyone. I am not saying the market is wrong. The market does what it does. However, at some point or other the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Nov 2018)

Martin Kenny: ..., if they begin to overfish their own waters, what impact will that have on TACs in the future? Fish do not know where the border between the waters of the EU and UK lies. The border on the land is hard enough to establish and police but the border in the sea is even harder. I am conscious of the fact that in a few years from now the December meeting of the agri-fisheries Council could...

Local Government (Water Pollution) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Nov 2018)

Martin Kenny: ...parties. They were mainly in favour of the Bill, although the Labour Party indicated it had some reservations. It is clear the vast majority of those who live and work with people in rural Ireland understand this problem needs a solution. In fairness, the Minister of State and many of his colleagues have said that when I mentioned this to them. They understand this needs a solution,...

Local Government (Water Pollution) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Nov 2018)

Martin Kenny: ...large areas of County Leitrim and other areas in the west, rural communities are in decline. People deserve to be able to live where they choose to live. Most people who want to live in rural Ireland want to do so in an environmentally-friendly manner. In the vast majority of cases where people are building houses like that, they are doing so either on their own land or family land....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Data (25 Oct 2018)

Martin Kenny: 275. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the acreage of land planted for forestry for the public and private sector by county; the species of trees in each of the years 2015 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44291/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (25 Oct 2018)

Martin Kenny: ...under the acid sensitivity protocol in each of the years 2008 to 2017 in acid sensitive areas such as County Leitrim and north County Roscommon which account for 700,000 acres of acid sensitive land or 10% of acid sensitive land here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44292/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Martin Kenny: ...moneys were provided for ANCs, which was welcome. Will additional money, which is needed, be provided this year? The Minister is smiling but the farming sector is under the most pressure. This land is the least productive but, at the same time, it produces a major benefit for the farmers who work it. Many of them feel they are being squeezed out. According to the Minister's opening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Martin Kenny: ...how they need to get themselves established over the next period of time. It comes to approximately €1 million per annum. Given that approximately €65 million is provided to Horse Racing Ireland and Bord na gCon, it would be appropriate to find some way of providing money to support this sector. I was not here when Deputy Eugene Murphy spoke about drainage. Drainage is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural Businesses: Irish Local Development Network (27 Sep 2018)

Martin Kenny: ...families to come to the area. We found new families who were interested in coming to live in the parish but we do not have houses for them. One issue in Leitrim and in areas where there is poor land is that we cannot get planning permission to build new houses, and much of the old accommodation is not suitable. There are many issues confronting people in rural Ireland but the primary...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Martin Kenny: ...is to do something that will put feed directly into the hands of the farmers who need it at this time. Forage is an issue because we need more of it. The idea of growing a winter crop on the land that traditionally would be left bare over the winter is a welcome part of the solution. In my part of the country, people are busy with good grass growth and cutting good second cut and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Martin Kenny: ...return every year even though people like hot summers. A drainage scheme would resolve this in the areas that usually have that problem. If a scheme was put in place, particularly on marginal land in the north west, we would extend the pasture period, get more land into meadow and get more forage from it. That would help in the future. It might appear to be the reverse of where the...

Other Questions: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Review (12 Jul 2018)

Martin Kenny: 11. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the redesignation of areas of natural constraint, ANC, land; his plans to increase the ANC in budget 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31447/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Jul 2018)

Martin Kenny: ...am trying to do is tease out what level of commitment the farmer will have to make in respect of it. I have often said the farmer is not the only one who produces greenhouse gases, but in effect, land use is one of the few ways we have of segregating those gases so there is an obligation and an opportunity there for the farmer in that respect. These measures are designed to help that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (12 Jul 2018)

Martin Kenny: ...have the more intensive farmers opting out but the farmers who need the money opting in. It would mean that we would have a situation where the environmental actions would all be happening on the lands of natural constraint or in the areas where a poorer income is in place for farmers. It must be the case that every farmer everywhere plays a role in respect of it.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (12 Jul 2018)

Martin Kenny: 528. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if research has been carried out in relation to carbon sequestration in marginal, mountain and bog land compared to forestry plantations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32309/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (12 Jul 2018)

Martin Kenny: 596. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans in relation to maturing forests that were planted on mountain and bog lands which will not be permitted to be replanted once they are felled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32312/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Martin Kenny: ...the producer organisations? Has that been negative or positive? Are opportunities being missed? As has been suggested, is this about the need for investment, better marketing and better landing facilities? Alternatively, is it simply that the opportunity to fish does not exist because, for example, the fish in respect of which there is a quota do not swim around the islands? IIMRO...