Results 101-120 of 3,570 for speaker:Martin Heydon

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (2 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: The welfare of equines is protected by legislation and appropriate enforcement action is undertaken by my Department and authorised officers under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013, including An Garda Síochána, Customs agents, authorised officers appointed by local authorities, the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) and the Dublin Society for the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (2 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: For a geographical indication to be registered, an application must follow the procedures set out in the relevant EU regulations, with steps at both at national and European level. At the national level, my Department is responsible for examining applications to ensure that they meet the conditions of the relevant EU regulations. My Department has had extensive engagement with the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Breeding (2 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: An important pillar of Government policy is to support the development of the sport horse sector and enhance the breeding and marketing of Irish sport horses. My Department and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (DTCAGSM) via Sport Ireland (SI) provide public funds to the sport horse industry to assist them meet these objectives. My Department provides...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (2 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 234 and 235 together. The trade in and the export of animals is a private commercial activity, but it is heavily regulated by my Department in accordance with European and Irish national law. At the time of movement, my Department carries out official controls on the animals to be traded within the EU or to be exported to third countries to ensure that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Meetings (2 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: There was a meeting between Ministers and Members of the Management Board on 30 January 2025. Ministers, their advisors, Management Board members and Private Secretaries attended.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry (2 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: Aquaculture offers an environmentally sustainable way of producing high quality, high protein foods. Applications for aquaculture licences for the cultivation of finfish are considered by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in accordance with the provisions of the 1997 Fisheries (Amendment) Act and (in the case of marine aquaculture) the 1933 Foreshore Act. The licensing...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry (2 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: Ireland has been to the forefront in protecting the vulnerable Sea Bass stock for many years with a complete prohibition on commercial fishing in place since 1990. In addition, EU vessels are prohibited from fishing for Sea Bass in Irish waters of Area 7 (the Irish Sea, Celtic Sea and waters of the south-west and west coast). Recreational fisheries are also strictly controlled with only...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: As I rise to my feet to express confidence in the Ceann Comhairle, I reflect on 106 years of Dáil Eireann, during that time from its first sitting on 21 January 1919, with the revolutionary Irish Republic being formed with some of its Members still in prison, to 9 March 1932 when we had that first changeover of power between two parties, when reportedly some Members of this House carried...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grant Payments (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 586 and 590 together. The person named was accepted into ACRES General Tranche 1, with a contract commencement date of January 1st 2023. An advance payment of €6,214.23 issued to the herd owner in December 2023 in respect of their participation in the Scheme in 2023. My Department has identified the cause of the issue that has been preventing this...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: Irish Grass Fed Beef PGI was registered by the European Commission on 27th November 2023. The PGI is on an all-island basis representing farmers and processors north and south, with Bord Bia as the applicant on behalf of producers and processors here, and their counterpart the Livestock and Meat Commission as the applicant in Northern Ireland. Since registration, my Department and Bord...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Investigations (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: My Department provides a variety of extensive supports as part of the Bovine Viral Diarrheal (BVD) eradication programme. Among these are financial supports to farmers in respect of herds that disclose one or more animals with BVD test positive or inconclusive test result. The financial support available is: - For Dairy breeds animals: €160 if the dairy female or dairy cross...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grant Payments (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: In acknowledgement of the urgency of support required following Storm Eowyn, I opened a new TAMS 3 tranche for a three-week period to deal specifically with storm-related damage on farms. This tranche opened on 7 March 2025, and closed on 28 March 2025. The specific items in respect of which applications were accepted over this three-week period are as follows:Backup PTO Generators (this...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Marine Protected Areas (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: In 2018, a transition period to a ban on vessels over 18 metres trawling in inshore waters, inside the six nautical mile zone and the baselines, was announced. This measure, however, was the subject of extended legal proceedings resulting in the measure being overturned in 2023. In 2024, over a period of eight weeks, the Minister held a new public consultation on a review of trawling...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grant Payments (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: The Women Farmers Capital Investment Scheme is one of ten measures in the Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Scheme (TAMS 3), which provides grants to farmers to build and/or improve a specified range of farm buildings and equipment on their holdings. A standard grant rate of 40% is provided for all eligible investments in TAMS 3, with an enhanced 60% rate available to women farmers who...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grant Payments (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: The person named submitted an application under the 2024 Complementary Income Support for Young Farmers scheme. This application was selected as part of the required 10% of applications where an on-the-spot-check is carried out to verify that the young farmer applicant can demonstrate full financial and managerial control of the agricultural holding, as required under the Terms and Conditions...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grant Payments (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: The person named was accepted into ACRES General Tranche 1, with a contract commencement date of January 1st 2023. I can confirm that all ACRES payments in respect of 2023 have been finalised for this participant. The advance payment claim associated with this herd in respect of 2024 has not yet cleared all the necessary pre-payment validation checks. My Department is actively working to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Policies (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 595, 596 and 619 together. My Department officials are in regular contact with the ESB, particularly in the aftermath of Storm Éowyn. On 5th February 2025, a decision was made by Government to request ESB Networks to develop a Winter 2025 Grid Resilience Plan. A key component of this plan will be the requirement to safeguard the electrical...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: My Department is committed to meeting the Farmers' Charter timelines for the processing of all forestry applications, namely, that applications will be completed within six months in the case of files screened out from environmental assessment, and within nine months in the case of those screened in for environmental assessment. My Department has issued 527 licences so far this year. Last...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: In accordance with section 3 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act 2003, the Register of Sea Fishing Boats is maintained by the Registrar General for Sea Fishing Boats and is publicly available online at: gov.ie - Sea Fisheries Administration (www.gov.ie). The register is updated every two weeks. In addition, the EU Commission publishes annual fleet reports including Ireland which are also...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (1 Apr 2025)

Martin Heydon: In Ireland, fishing quota, including pelagic stocks such as Mackerel and Herring, is a public resource and is managed to provide for proper management, conservation and rational exploitation of the State’s fishing quotas.  It is managed as a public good that ensures that property rights are not granted to individual operators. This is seen as a critical policy in order to ensure...