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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Directives (14 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: Under the Terms and Conditions of Direct Payment Schemes, an applicant, as well as meeting the Scheme criteria, is required to comply with EU regulatory requirements relating to Cross Compliance. Where my Department’s records indicate that in a given year the amount of nitrogen from livestock manure applied to land on the holding (including that deposited by animals), exceeds the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff Recruitment (14 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: Technical Agricultural Officers carry out a variety of functions related to services and schemes administered by the Department including the operation of controls relating to animal health, public health, animal welfare and EU payment schemes. The post of Technical Agricultural Officer was advertised by the Public Appointments Service on 14 April with a closing date of 5 May 2016. The...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmers Scheme (9 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted an application for the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme which was received in the Department on 27 May 2015. The application was processed with payments issuing to the nominated bank account on 17 December 2015 and 2 February 2016. However, to complete the full processing of this application, the person named was requested to submit commonage evidence for a particular...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grocery Industry (9 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: Fairness in commercial dealings is a key ingredient of a sustainable and well functioning food supply chain. I do not have a role in setting prices or the details of commercial arrangements in the food supply chain but I am concerned about fairness and sustainability. The Grocery Goods Undertakings Regulations, 2016 which entered into force on 30 April 2016 provide for statutory regulation...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmers Scheme (9 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted an application under the ‘new entrant’ category of the 2015 National Reserve. This application was not successful as the applicant was deemed to have exceeded the off farm income threshold of €40,000. This income limit is applied to all applications regardless of the jurisdiction in which the income was earned. The applicant was notified in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmers Scheme (9 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted an application under the 2015 Young Farmers Scheme to my Department. The application received from the person named has been fully processed and payment is due to issue very shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Applications (9 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted a Private Contract Clause application to my Department seeking the transfer of land and entitlements by lease as transferor. This application was unsuccessful as the person named had not established an allocation right on the parcel that was the subject of the application. The person named was notified in writing of this decision and was offered the right to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (9 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: My Department is strongly committed to providing periodic funding opportunities for targeted research in the agri-food including aquaculture and forestry sectors through its three competitive national funding programmes - FIRM - focusing on food research, STIMULUS - focusing on agricultural production research and CoFoRD - focusing on forest research. The research funded through these...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Programme (9 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: My Department has no Bills for re-initiation. In the coming sessions my Department plans to introduce the Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction (Amendment) Bill 2016 and the Greyhound Industry Bill.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eurozone Issues (9 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: I propose to take Questions Nos. 207 and 208 together. The UK is by far our largest single trading partner. According to CSO figures, in 2015 we exported almost €5.1 billion worth of agricultural products, and imports from the UK were worth €3.8 billion. The prospect of a UK vote to leave the EU therefore has serious implications for the agri-food sector. This is borne...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Applications (9 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: An application under Tranche 1 of GLAS was received in my Department on the 26 May 2015 and the person named was approved into the GLAS 1 with effect from 1 October 2015. There are a number of applications, including that of the person named, remaining which have not passed all of the Department’s pre-payment validation checks for the 2015 part-year payment. The Department is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmers Scheme (9 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: The persons named submitted applications under the ‘young farmer’ category of the 2015 National Reserve and the Young Farmers’ Scheme with the second named person as the young farmer. The application to the National Reserve was not successful as the applicants exceeded the off farm income limit applicable and the application to the Young Farmers’ Scheme was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hare Coursing Regulation (8 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: It is an Irish solution to an Irish problem. I am not sure if Deputy Daly is suggesting that we should have an imported solution to an Irish problem. I highlight that a very high proportion of hares netted for hare coursing were returned successfully to the wild. For example, at the end of the 2014-15 season, 99.3% of hares captured were released in a healthy condition back after coursing....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hare Coursing Regulation (8 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: I have nothing to add to what I have stated already. We have travelled some distance in respect of the supervision of hare coursing and I do not have any plans to ban it. Equally, however, I would add that all parties involved in hare coursing must operate within the law and the terms of licences issued to them in respect of hare capture and so on.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fisheries Offences (8 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: I am not aware of the answer to that-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fisheries Offences (8 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: The revised statutory instrument came in, to the best of my knowledge, on 1 March. Deputy Ferris might be able to confirm that. I am unsure if there would be any prosecutions taken under it. There are some administrative sides to that statutory instrument which have not been put in place by my Department. I am moving to a new system and I intend to replace that statutory instrument. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fisheries Offences (8 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: It is not from me to trespass on the law. There is a separation of powers between the Executive and the Judiciary. I cannot interfere in that sphere, as the Deputy will appreciate. However, it is my ambition to deal with this as conclusively and as quickly as possible. I did give that commitment in my earlier reply. I have given it to the producer organisations with which I have already...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fisheries Offences (8 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: Sorry?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fisheries Offences (8 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: I suspect that prosecutions would be difficult under the current statutory instrument. I will revert to the Deputy with details. That would be trespassing on the legal issue and I would have to get direction from the Attorney General's office, but I suspect not.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hare Coursing Regulation (8 Jun 2016)

Michael Creed: Under the provisions of the Greyhound Industry Act 1958, the regulation of coursing is chiefly a matter for the Irish Coursing Club, ICC, subject to the general control and direction of Bord na gCon. The welfare of greyhounds involved in coursing is provided for in the Welfare of Greyhounds Act 2011 which, inter alia,requires that persons who course greyhounds must have regard to the code of...