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- Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: The Animal Health and Welfare Bill which gives effect to commitments in the Programme for Government and the Renewed Programme for Government on issues relating to animal health and welfare is being prepared in my Department. The new legislation will amend and consolidate legislation in the area of animal health, particularly to reflect the changed disease status of our animals. Existing...
- Written Answers — Fisheries Policy: Fisheries Policy (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: I propose to take Questions Nos. 398 and 403 together. The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has no proposals to publish an inter-departmental group report on the coastal sector. The Department has recently published and submitted to the European Commission the National Response to the EU Green Paper on Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy. That report can be obtained at...
- Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Eight transporters of live dogs applied for an authorisation to my Department. An application form and explanatory information on the legislation that governs the transport of live animals, including Council Regulation (EC) No 1 of 2005 on the protection of animals during transport and related operations and amending Directives 64/432/EEC and 93/119/EC and Regulation (EC) No 1255/97 and S.I....
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Due to industrial action by staff in my Department, I am unable to provide a reply to this question.
- Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: EU pet passports are not issued to authorised transporters but rather directly to pet owners via their veterinary practitioner. Pet passport applications are completed by pet owners and submitted to my Department by the veterinary practitioner following micro-chipping of the animal. The passport is issued to the veterinary practitioner who enters details of rabies vaccination, blood test...
- Written Answers — Live Exports: Live Exports (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: There is no prohibition on the movement of sheep to or from Northern Ireland. However since the FMD outbreak in 2001 and arising from certain concerns relating to scrapie, all exports of breeding sheep must be inspected by an official veterinarian during the 24 hours preceding the loading of the animals and issued with an intra-Community health certificate signed by the official veterinarian....
- Written Answers — Food Industry: Food Industry (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: The Government has announced a â¬100 million fund to improve the food industry's competitiveness over the next four years. The roll-out of this fund will commence in 2010 with â¬9.5 million being provided through my Department as part of the Revised Estimates. Of this amount, â¬7 million will be administered by Enterprise Ireland towards measures aimed at competitiveness issues and â¬2.5...
- Written Answers — Crop Losses: Crop Losses (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: There is no record of an application from the person named under the flood related Fodder Aid Scheme, which I launched in November 2009, targeted at farmers who encountered damage to fodder (silage or hay or concentrates) in areas which suffered flooding in November 2009. The Scheme required farmers to demonstrate that the fodder was damaged and the extent of that damage: the aid was only...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Due to industrial action by staff in my Department, I am unable to provide a reply to this question.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Due to industrial action by staff in my Department, I am not in a position to provide a reply to this question.
- Written Answers — Departmental Transport: Departmental Transport (9 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Due to industrial action by staff in my Department, I am not in a position to provide a reply to this question. Replies to Questions Nos. 409 to 459, inclusive, not received from the Department.
- Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (4 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Matters relating to the Wildlife Act are within the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government. With regard to the Animal Health and Welfare Bill, the position is that an Animal Health and Welfare Bill which will give effect to commitments in the Programme for Government and the Renewed Programme for Government on issues relating to animal health and...
- Written Answers — Food Safety Standards: Food Safety Standards (4 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Due to industrial action in my Department, I am not in a position to provide a reply to this question.
- Written Answers — Food Safety Standards: Food Safety Standards (4 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Overall responsibility for the enforcement of food safety legislation rests with the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (F.S.A.I.). The FSAI implement this through service contracts with my Department and other relevant agencies, including the Health Service Executive and the Local Authority Veterinary Services. The number of contracts could be obtained from the FSAI. Legislation covered by...
- Written Answers — Seafood Sector: Seafood Sector (4 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Due to Industrial Action by staff in my Department, I am not in a position to provide a reply to this question.
- Written Answers — Farmers' Markets: Farmers' Markets (4 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: A Farmers Markets' Code of Good Practice has been drawn up by a group representative of stakeholders and chaired by my Department and followed a public consultation. The voluntary Code was launched by Minister Sargent at Bloom 2009. The Code signifies that Farmers Markets displaying the banner have undertaken to hold markets regularly; to source a substantial proportion, ideally 50%, of...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (4 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: Research institutions that can demonstrate the necessary research capabilities, including Universities, Institutes of Technology, Teagasc and DAFF laboratories are eligible to submit proposals for funding through the competitive public good research programmes operated by my Department i.e. the Food Institutional Research Measure (FIRM), the Research Stimulus Fund and the COFORD forestry...
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (4 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: The Seafood Development Centre (SDC), which delivers on a key recommendation of the Government strategy 'Steering a New Course' seafood strategy 2007-2013, will support and provide industry with a commercially focused innovation and new product development capability. The SDC is managed by Bord Iascaigh Mhara, which has advised that 60 seafood companies have used or are using the innovation...
- Written Answers — Food Industry: Food Industry (4 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food publishes detailed data on the structure of and employment within the agrifood sector based on two sources, the Census of Industrial Production (CIP) and the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS), which are both published by the Central Statistics Office on an annual and quarterly basis respectively. This data is published and analysed...
- Written Answers — Common Agricultural Policy: Common Agricultural Policy (4 Mar 2010)
Brendan Smith: I propose to take Questions Nos. 140 and 141 together. In the mid term review of the CAP conducted in 2003, Ireland opted for full decoupling of payments from production. This has proved to be a success for Ireland and I am committed to this approach for the foreseeable future. My view is that decoupled payments remain the best way of underpinning the incomes of small family farms, while...