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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fur Farming (30 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The Animal Health and Welfare (Fur farming) Bill 2020 presently applies to cats, chinchillas, dogs, foxes, mink and weasels (including stoats). The inclusion of rabbits in this list is being considered.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine employed 16 Inspectors whose duties included inspection of dairy farms in 2011. In 2021 there are 16 inspectors whose duties include inspection of dairy farms. There were 286 dairy farm inspections completed in 2011 and 418 dairy farm inspections are planned for 2021.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The incidence of clinical mastitis in dairy cattle varies widely, due to differences in a range of factors including climate, level of production and management. Mastitis is a disease that farmers are not obligated to report to the Department and, therefore, the data requested in relation to mastitis cases recorded at farm level is not available.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: There are currently 33 slaughterhouses classifying beef carcasses. The information provided by such businesses is determined by EU legislation in this regard. The number of cows slaughtered across all 33 slaughterhouses is set out in the Table below. Slaughter figures are not broken down into either the breed or the type of cow that is slaughtered, so it is not possible to give an exact...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: Rásaíocht Con Éireann (RCÉ) is a commercial state body, established under the Greyhound Industry Act, 1958 chiefly to control greyhound racing and to improve and develop the greyhound industry. RCÉ is a body corporate and a separate legal entity to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The question raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: Rásaíocht Con Éireann (RCÉ) is a commercial state body, established under the Greyhound Industry Act, 1958 chiefly to control greyhound racing and to improve and develop the greyhound industry. RCÉ is a body corporate and a separate legal entity to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The question raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The Results-Based Environment Agri Pilot Project (REAP) is an ambitious, farmer-friendly environmental project designed to test the results based approach on a variety of farm types. The project will feed into the development of the next national agri-environment scheme to follow on from GLAS. REAP is designed to focus on key learning objectives for participants and their advisors. As...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: Under the Terms and Conditions of the TB Compensation Scheme, as set out on page 19 of the Compensation booklet sets: “Scans are not accepted by the Department as a means of verifying the pregnancy. The post mortem result carried out at the factory of slaughter is final in this regard”. The Department does not accept scans as evidence of pregnancy since the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The Beef Taskforce was established by the then Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine on foot of the beef sector agreement of 15th September 2019. The TaskForce is comprised of named individuals who were nominated at that time by the parties to that Agreement. The Beef Taskforce remit was to monitor the implementation of the actions arising from the agreement reached on 15th...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: Provisional agreement on the CAP reform package has been reached by the Presidency and the Parliament. The full details of the agreement will be presented at the Council of Ministers on 28 and 29 June, where it is hoped that final overall agreement will be reached. As far as capping of payments is concerned, I will of course have to apply limits that are in keeping with the parameters set...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: Last October, the Agri-fish Council of Ministers agreed the general approach on the CAP Reform Package. In the Council General Approach, I negotiated for the subsidiarity for Member States to apply capping of payments. Some of the basic principles around these figures were agreed in the Multi-annual Financial Framework 2021-2027 earlier last year, and transferred across. However, the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I have, with my officials, engaged extensively with the key stakeholders on the future of the CAP and the development of the CAP Strategic Plan (CSP) 2023-2027. This engagement will continue, in particular through the Stakeholder Consultative Committee, which has been a constructive and crucial body in shaping the current CAP, which comprises representatives of the main farm bodies, NGOs,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The objective of the Beef Exceptional Aid Measure (BEAM) was to provide temporary exceptional adjustment aid to farmers in the beef sector in Ireland subject to the conditions set out in EU Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1132. Just over 33,000 participants joined the scheme and, in doing so, gave a commitment to reduce the production of bovine livestock manure nitrogen on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The Beef Exceptional Aid Measure (BEAM) provided temporary exceptional adjustment aid to farmers in the beef sector in Ireland in 2019. It was provided in light of the difficult circumstances that Irish beef farmers had been facing as a result of the market volatility and uncertainty. The scheme was subject to the conditions set out in EU Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1132. ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The Farm to Fork (F2F) Strategy forms part of the European Green Deal (EGD) which is the EU strategy for sustainable growth. The F2F Strategy is at the heart of the EGD: it addresses the challenges of sustainable food systems and recognises the links between healthy people, healthy societies and a healthy planet. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will help this sustainability...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The Farm to Fork Strategy, a key pillar of the European Green Deal, was published in May 2020.It includes reference to a new EU model of financially supporting farmers and foresters for sequestering carbon on their farms. The Strategy identifies that farming practices that remove CO2from the atmosphere contribute to the climate neutrality objective and should be rewarded, either via the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: In October 2020, the European Commission published an illustrative list of examples of Eco-Schemes as announced in the Farm to Fork Strategy. This list was not presented to the CAP Consultative Committee as a stand alone item. However, it fed into discussions at Eco-Scheme and Green Architecture Workshops for Consultative Committee members on 19th November and 10th December 2020. ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: Eco-Schemes are being proposed for the first time as part of the next Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and will be funded from within Pillar 1 of the CAP budget. Eco-Schemes will be annual schemes that farmers can choose to participate in each year. Each Member State will have to develop an Eco-Scheme and will have to establish a list of Eco-Scheme actions. The European Commission has...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: It is a matter of public record that the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine brought a prosecution in the case referred to. The Department expects all its staff to uphold and fully comply with the law. On the rare occasion that a member of staff is found to be in breach of the law, the Department acts robustly and fairly in accordance with Civil Service policy. Whilst the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The current EU regulations already allow farmers who are over age for the young farmer scheme to access entitlements if they are starting out in farming and such a scheme is operated in Ireland. Since 2015, the Basic Payment Scheme National Reserve has provided for an allocation of payment entitlements to successful applicants under the two priority categories of ‘young...