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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Directives (24 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 264. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on issues raised in correspondence by an organisation (details supplied). [44011/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Issues (24 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 270. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has carried out investigations on the future of pet travel arrangements between the UK and here in the event of a no-deal Brexit; if the current arrangements will be maintained in such circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44096/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Engagement with Chairman of Teagasc (23 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: I welcome Mr. Herlihy and wish him well in his term as chairman. I also welcome the chief executive officer, Professor Gerry Boyle. I have a few questions for Mr. Herlihy. Following on what Deputy Cahill said about the climate change challenge and targets and the Food Wise 2025 targets, I am interested to hear about the juxtaposition of both of those targets and how Mr. Herlihy envisages...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister and his officials for the presentation and overview of the issue. We had a very thorough session with the officials a number of months ago in regard to the aquaculture licensing report, which we went through in some detail. They outlined to us a lot of what the Minister has outlined about what has come to pass and the background, the fact a prioritisation is being made...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: The Minister mentioned briefly the Shot Head application earlier and stated that a decision was been made by the Department. I do not want to get into the detail of this but I ask him to give just the timeline of the application. It was submitted to the Department in 2011, there was a decision in 2015 and, since then, it has been with the independent Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: There is another application in respect of which-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: -----an environmental impact assessment has been with the Department since 2014 and a fresh application has been made. One of the recommendations of the review was that increased resources be provided to the independent Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board. Has this happened or has the Minister committed to or planned for it? When the departmental officials were with us on the previous...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: The review panel makes that case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: If that is the Minister's position, it should be discussed and teased out. The aquaculture review group made the recommendation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: We are hearing that the Minister is not convinced on that point. In fact, he does not believe it is the right way to go. However, it highlights the point that what we need is an implementation plan with regard to those reviews. The industry is currently working off the 30 recommendations in the review, of which that to which I refer is one, but we have not had a clear response from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: It has to be started first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: It is reasonable to assume they have serious pressure coming at them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: To come back on that point, it is not good enough to say that the backlog is the key priority in the review group's recommendations. It is the priority that deserves the biggest amount of resources and top priority in the context of getting movement. I do not believe, just because the Minister is saying that is the key one and that he is moving on it, that it is acceptable that we leave the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: The Minister might listen. There are 30 recommendations. If some of them, as the Minister indicated, require further consultation with the sector-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: If it is extremely difficult to meet that six-month target, let us get a response from the Minister as part of an implementation plan outlining the reason for that and the steps he will take to deal with the matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: We have a report with 30 recommendations. However, by and large, most of the report will gather dust on the shelf before we deal with it in more detail, apart from the couple of key pressing matters with which the Minister is dealing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: I ask the Minister to come back to the joint committee with a comprehensive response to the 30 recommendations made. I would like to receive in writing the fleshed out responses the Minister will give us and an implementation plan for the recommendations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: It may not take the application of massive resources simply to have a timeline and a plan to implement the report which is sitting on the shelf.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: Will the Minister go into the matter in a little more detail? He has indicated that 38 applications are in the finfish sector and that the sector will be requested to submit before the end of the year an environmental impact assessment to the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: Will the Minister take us from the point where the sector will submit an environment impact assessments at the end of the year and give us a timeline and the targets he will be working from for the completion of applications and the making of decisions on them?