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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (14 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of 1 October 2015 and has received full entitlements in respect of the 2015 scheme year. Department records show that following a Cross Compliance inspection under the Basic Payment Scheme a penalty was applied on the holding of the person named.  Under the regulations the same level of penalty must now be...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Applications (14 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The deadline for the receipt of applications under the 2015 Basic payment Scheme (BPS) was 29th May 2015. An application in respect of the 2015 BPS was received from the person named on 13 April 2016, thus incurring a 100% late penalty as it was outside of the deadline.  The BPS Terms and Conditions booklet circulated to all applicants in March of 2015 sets out that, in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme Applications (14 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted an application under the 2016 Young Farmers Scheme to my Department. His name was added to the herd number shown for the 2016 scheme year. However, the 2016 Basic Payment Scheme Application was submitted under the herd number shown while it was still held in the sole name of the previous herd owner. As a result my Department needed to align the applications...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pesticide Use (14 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: Further to my response to your previous parliamentary question of 2nd February last, I would like to confirm again that there are no plant protection products on the Irish market containing “chlorpyrifos”. The US EPA review which was referred to in the previous question considered “chlorpyrifos” only. “Chlorpyrifos-methyl” is a distinctly...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (14 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: I propose to take Questions Nos. 579 and 580 together. Further to my answer to parliamentary question number 300 of 1 February 2017, there are currently no plans in place to implement a ban on pair trawler fishing within Irish coastal waters. I am advised that this practice in inshore waters and estuaries around Ireland is confined to fishing for sprat, which is not subject to fishing...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Issues (14 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: At this stage it is impossible to say with certainty what effect Brexit will have on the Irish fishing industry. We do not know yet what changes the UK may seek to the current arrangements. What we do know is that there is a strong desire and expectation from parts of the UK fishing industry for a hard Brexit on fish – a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Appeals (14 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The persons named submitted an application under the 2015 Scottish Derogation Scheme. Under EU Regulations governing the Scottish Derogation measure of the Basic Payment scheme, processing of applications involves administrative checks to verify that the applicant had been actively farming in the Beef, Dairying, Sheep or Arable sectors on 15 May 2013. The persons named in this case...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (14 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: Coillte CGA was established as a private commercial company under the Forestry Act 1988 and day-to-day operational matters, such as the engagement and payment of service providers, are the responsibility of the company.  The company has, however, advised that it hired one private investigation firm in 2016

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (14 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: Local authorities are responsible for planning so I am not in a position to advise on the first part of the Deputy’s question. Coillte CGA was established as a private commercial company under the Forestry Act 1988 and day-to-day operational matters, such as planning applications and the erection of wind turbines, are the responsibility of the company. The company has, however,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (14 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: Coillte CGA was established as a private commercial company under the Forestry Act 1988 and day-to-day operational matters, such as the engagement of service providers, are the responsibility of the company.  The company has, however, advised that it may, on occasion, engage the services of private investigators, under guidance from their insurers and legal advisors, in relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Administration (14 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: I was pleased to announce the launch of the “Agriculture Cashflow Support Loan Scheme” on 31st January. One of my priorities has been to address the impact of the change in the sterling exchange rate and lower commodity prices in some sectors, which have caused cash flow difficulties for farmers. The Scheme, which was developed in co-operation with the Strategic Banking...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Poultry Industry (14 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: EU Regulations on the marketing standards for eggs and poultrymeat set down minimum requirements that must be met in order to use the term “Free Range”, including rules around access to the range.  The EU Regulations also provide for situations where veterinary restrictions are imposed to protect public and animal health, as is the case currently in Ireland, whereby eggs...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (14 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of 1 October 2015 and has received full entitlements in respect of the 2015 scheme year. The 85% advance payment for 2016 has been processed and payment has issued to the person named.  The balancing 15% payment for 2016 will be processed in due course in accordance with the regulatory requirements.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Safety Standards Regulation (14 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: My colleague Simon Harris TD, Minister for Health has primary responsibility for the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and the enforcement of food laws. It co-ordinates the work of official agencies which includes inspections of food businesses, food contact material manufacturers and distributors and the delivery of food  and food contact materials sampling and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pesticide Use (14 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: I propose to take Questions Nos. 590 and 591 together. The 2014 European Union Report on Pesticide Residues in Food, which was published in October 2016, indicates that 0.4% of samples from Ireland that were analysed as part of the pesticide residue monitoring programmes of all Member States exceeded the Maximum Residue Level (MRL). The MRL exceedance rate for produce from all EU...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Reviews (14 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: My Department owns, manages and maintains the six State-owned Fishery Harbour Centres, located at Castletownbere, Dingle, Dunmore East, Howth, Killybegs and Ros An Mhíl. The Fishery Harbour Centres (Rates and Charges) Order 2012 (214 of 2012), which came into effect on the 1st July 2012, sets out the fee schedule for the use of the facilities at each of the six Fishery Harbour Centres....

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Agriculture Scheme Payments (9 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: I thank Senator Ó Domhnaill for raising this matter on the Commencement and welcome the opportunity to outline the current position regarding the 2016 payments under the green low carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS, and the previous agri-environment scheme, the agri-environment options scheme, AEOS. GLAS provides support to farmers under the rural development programme 2014 to 2020 to...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Agriculture Scheme Payments (9 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: I thank the Senator for raising the matter. I am acutely conscious of the hardship it is causing in terms of cashflow management for individual farmers. According to the charter, agreed between farmers and my Department, we are behind the curve in getting the payments out and they are overdue. I assure all Senators and the farming community that every effort is being made in the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (9 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The application of the person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of 1 October 2015 and full entitlements have issued in respect of the 2015 scheme year. The original GLAS contract was approved for transfer to the person named from a relative.  An issue arose in relation to bank accounts.  An official from my Department was in direct contact with the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (9 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 2 with a contract commencement date of the 1 January 2016.  During the 2016 prepayment checking process an issue was identified with the Commonage action.  Department officials are examining this issue with a view to resolving and further processing the application for payment at the earliest opportunity.