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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027 (CSP) has a budget of €9.8 billion over five years. This is made up of: Pillar 1 Direct Payments of €5.98 billion, which is entirely funded by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF); andPillar 2 Rural Development interventions which comprise €3.86 billion, which is co-funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1648 and 1653 together. I formally established An Rialálaí Agraibhia (Agri-Food Regulator) was established on 13th December 2023 following the enactment of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2023. This marked the end of a constructive legislative process which allowed for the passing of a bill that included very strong powers of enforcement...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farmers Charter (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The new Farmers’ Charter of Rights was agreed on 2 July 2024. Following agreement of the Charter, an independently chaired Charter Monitoring Committee will be established to monitor the agreed targets and standards. The Farmers’ Charter includes representatives from 6 representative bodies; The Irish Farmers Association (IFA), the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farmers Charter (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The new Farmers’ Charter of Rights was agreed on 2 July 2024. Following agreement of the Charter, an independently chaired Charter Monitoring Committee will be established to monitor the agreed targets and standards. The Committee will be established later in 2024. The Farmers’ Charter includes representatives from 6 representative bodies; The Irish Farmers Association (IFA),...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farmers Charter (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1651 and 1652 together. The new Farmers’ Charter of Rights was agreed on 2 July 2024. Following agreement of the Charter, an independently chaired Charter Monitoring Committee will be established to monitor the agreed targets and standards. The Farmers’ Charter includes representatives from 6 representative bodies; The Irish Farmers Association...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disease Management (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Plant Health within the European Union (EU) is governed by the EU Plant Health Regulation 2031 of 2016 and the Official Controls Regulation 625 of 2017. These Regulations also harmonise the requirements in areas such as, rules on surveillance for pests of plant health and rules on actions to be taken in the event of the confirmation of the presence of specific plant pests, including...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disease Management (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Plant Health in the European Union (EU) is governed by the EU Plant Health Regulation 2016/2031 and the Official Controls Regulation 2017/625. These Regulations harmonise the rules in areas such as; surveillance for pests of plant health; actions to be taken in the event of the confirmation of the presence of specific plant pests, including Fireblight; and rules on the trade of plants,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disease Management (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: This Department has published a factsheet in relation to Fireblight on its website. This factsheet together with a cover letter, was distributed locally within the demarcated area, during delimiting surveys at Fireblight outbreaks in 2023. It informed recipients of the outbreak, and actions to be taken. It also provided contact details for this Departments outbreak investigation team....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I firstly wish to reiterate my strong condemnation of any cruelty or mistreatment of animals and to reinforce that my Department takes matters of equine welfare and the integrity of the food chain very seriously. I can confirm that my Department, in conjunction with the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, is carrying out coordinated investigations into these matters. While it is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Export Controls (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: There is currently no restriction in place on trade with Libya. The trade in and the export of animals is a private commercial activity, but it is heavily regulated by European and Irish national law which my Department enforces. All live export consignments from Ireland are conducted in full compliance with legislative requirements. The consignments referred to in your correspondence of 15th...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disease Management (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) is responsible for overseeing the control and the prevention of the spread of certain weeds under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1936. The following weeds are currently listed in the Noxious Weeds Act: Ragwort, Thistle, Dock, Common barberry, Male wild hop and Wild oat. Under the Act, it is an offence not to prevent the spread of these weeds....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Coillte is a private limited company established under the Forestry Act 1988, and is operationally independent from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The matter raised is an internal operational matter for Coillte. I have referred the matter to Coillte for direct follow-up with the Deputy. For the Deputy's information, I would like to mention that Coillte does not receive...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disease Management (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1661 and 1662 together. My Department has introduced a comprehensive Action Plan on Ash Dieback which provides comprehensive supports to landowners who planted ash plantations under a grant-aided scheme overseen by my Department. While I am aware all landowners with ash trees are impacted by ash dieback, my Department does not have responsibility for the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department is committed to ensuring that a skilled and motivated workforce is in place to meet its priority business needs. Workforce planning processes are utilised to identify our requirements across all our grade streams and locations, aiming to ensure a long-term, proactive and strategic plan by which current and future staffing needs are addressed. Overall staffing levels and required...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: In April my officials, along with officials from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, held a bilateral meeting with the Commission Services to discuss Ireland's Nitrates Derogation, the interim review of the Nitrates Action Programme and the work that is currently taking place across Ireland's agri-food industry to reduce agriculture’s impact on water quality. In...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: On 17 July I announced the opening of the Cooley Flood Damage Relief Measure. This measure is to provide support to those farmers whose lands were damaged as a result of flooding in October - November 2023. Preliminary survey work identified the area damaged from the land slide and flooding, the result of which saw large deposits of rocks, gravel and debris on agricultural lands in addition...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Bodies (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: As the Deputy may be aware, the Agriculture Appeals Amendment Bill provides that: “The Chairperson of the Review Panel and ordinary members of the Panel shall be appointed by the Minister....” The Bill makes provision for the appointment of five ordinary members, in addition to the Chairperson. Both the Director and the Deputy Director of the Agriculture Appeals Office are also...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) is an environmentally ambitious agri-environment climate measure which forms part of Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan (CSP) 2023-2027. The Scheme has been designed to deliver significant long-term environmental improvements through participation by a significant number of farmers on the most appropriate land, with each making a strong...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Investigations (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: As the deputy is aware, my Department is the Competent Authority in Ireland with responsibility for the authorisation of plant protection products and for the implementation of official controls relating to the placing on the market and use of these products. There are several products, containing the active substances carfentrazone-ethyl or pyraflufen-ethyl which are currently authorised in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The unpredictable nature of extreme weather/flooding events and the resulting impact on agriculture does not lend its self to a ready made scheme template for unforeseen events such as flooding. My department in recent years has provided a number of schemes in support of extreme weather/flooding. These include the Shass Landslide, The Shannon Callows, The Unharvested Crop Loss Support, The...