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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (28 Apr 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: Project Woodland, under the leadership of Minister of State Hackett who has responsibility for forestry, is an initiative to tackle issues in forestry in Ireland and to promote and encourage woodland creation. It involves four different Working Groups reporting to Minister of State Hackett through a Project Manager and a Project Board. The Project Board is being...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (28 Apr 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department is very conscious of ensuring access to services for farmers that have a disability, and aims to ensure that the needs of all its customers, including people with disabilities are met and that the rights of equal treatment are upheld in the delivery of services. In this regard, there are two Access Officers appointed who are responsible for providing or arranging for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (28 Apr 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1119, 1120, 1121, 1122 and 1131 together. The Department makes available a selection of forestry statistics on the Department’s pages of the Government of Ireland website, gov.ie.  A Forestry Dashboard is circulated weekly and provides details of outputs for that week, month, and year to date.  Data on afforestation, forest...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has worked closely with representatives of the marts to ensure that their operations could continue. I commend mart staff, management and their farmer customers for the resilience and co-operation that they have shown and the speed with which they have...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (28 Apr 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: A total of €1.826 billion was allocated to my Department in Budget 2021.  The following table summarises the breakdown of the allocation across the Department’s voted expenditure programmes. Programme Expenditure Current Capital Total €000 €000 €000 A. Food...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Eligibility (28 Apr 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1125 and 1130 together. The Results Based Environment Agri Pilot Project (REAP) is an ambitious 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. Similar to the European...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (28 Apr 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I secured an additional €79 million, including €23 million carbon tax, in Budget 2021 to support action in the area of biodiversity, climate, environment and health and safety, all the while supporting farm incomes. My intention is to allocate the funding as follows: - Re-opening of the organic farming scheme €5m, - Straw Incorporation measure (SIM)...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (28 Apr 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The Results Based Environment Agri Pilot Project (REAP) is designed to test the results based concept in the broadest possible range of farming conditions. Ranking and selection of applicants will only take place if the project is oversubscribed. In this event, two separate groups will be identified based on their stocking levels, one with less than 140kg N/ha stocking rate and one...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (28 Apr 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1128 and 1129 together. The Programme for Government commits to rewarding farmers for adapting to more sustainable methods of farming and to the development of a new agri-environment scheme capable of delivering broad environmental and biodiversity benefits that will align financial supports with climate objectives. To advance this aim, the Results-Based...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (28 Apr 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: TAMS II is a capital investment scheme for on-farm investments. The EU regulations under which the scheme operates under the Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2014 – 2020, provide that beneficiaries must be farmers or groups of farmers. The regulatory transitional provisions for support from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) in the years 2021...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (28 Apr 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: Howth Fishery Harbour Centre (FHC) is one of the six designated Fishery Harbour Centres which are owned, managed and maintained by my Department under Statute.  The siltation in Howth Harbour has been recognised as an issue for some time, and the requirement for a dredging project to restore adequate depth in the entrance channel and within the harbour is accepted. The Harbour was...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (28 Apr 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The licensing situation in the forestry sector continues to be our main challenge. We have committed to issuing 4,500 licences this year and that is still our intention. While the current licensing situation is still not as we wish, this quarter has shown an improvement on the same period last year, with an increase of 24% on the number of licences issued. The area of land...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (28 Apr 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: All external ecologists employed by the Department are companies or sole traders registered within the State.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme (28 Apr 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: One of the eligibility criteria applicants for the Areas of Natural Constraints scheme must satisfy is the requirement to maintain a minimum stocking density of 0.15 livestock units per forage hectare for seven consecutive months within the calendar year, i.e. 1st January to the 31st of December. Examples of the seven consecutive month period would be the 1st January to 31st...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (28 Apr 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The timber revenue income per hectare from growing trees is related largely to the productivity of the lands planted. Enclosed land is, in general, more fertile and less exposed than unenclosed land and trees planted on enclosed land generally perform much better than trees planted on soil types associated with unenclosed land. This position is supported by many...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (28 Apr 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. I last spoke with the CEO of RCÉ on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (28 Apr 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine owns, operates and maintains six designated State-owned Fishery Harbour Centres, located at Castletownbere, Dingle, Dunmore East, Howth, Killybegs and Ros An Mhíl under statute. As the Deputy will be aware, Greencastle Harbour is owned by Donegal County Council and responsibility for its maintenance and development rests...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (28 Apr 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1140 and 1169 to 1171, inclusive, together. Following on from a commission Audit in 2018, Ireland received a formal decision of the Commission's intention to conduct an administrative inquiry under Article 102(2) of the 2009 EU Fisheries Control Regulation to evaluate Ireland's capacity to apply the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). The findings of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (28 Apr 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The SFPA commissioned an independent review of the Organisational Capability of the SFPA   in 2019 and this was completed by Price Waterhouse Coopers. A Steering Group comprised of three senior and expert persons, all independent of the SFPA, was put in place to oversee the review. The principal objective of the review was to contribute to the ongoing and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fur Farming (28 Apr 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The Programme for Government 2020 contains a commitment regarding the prohibition of fur farming and Department officials have been working on appropriate steps to give effect to this. The Department is continuing to progress legislation in close consultation with other Government colleagues. The Bill will make it illegal for any new fur farms to be established and...