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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Conservation (17 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...to 101 animal welfare charities nationwide through the Programme. This is the largest award of grant funding to animal welfare bodies ever made by my Department. My Department does not provide land to or have sites available for welfare charities. However, my Department would be happy to consider an application from the organisation in question for funding within the parameters and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (17 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department continually monitors farm structures and levels of employment in agriculture and the wider agri-food sector. The number of farms in Ireland is recorded every ten years in the Census of Agriculture (COA), with 2010 and 2020 being the most recent years, with the Farm Structure Survey (FSS) taking place periodically in between, in 2013 and 2016. The number of farms was recorded as...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: International Programmes (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I attended COP 28 for the Agricultural and Land focused days of the 9th and 10th December, my purpose was to engage on important topics in relation to sustainable food systems and innovation in agriculture, and their relevance for climate action. I welcome the link made by the UAE Presidency between climate policy and food as a key priority for this year’s COP. This is the first...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I remain committed to the objective of Ireland being regarded internationally as a world leader in sustainable food systems, producing top quality, safe, nutritious, sustainable food. With a growing global population, it is critically important that countries like Ireland that can produce quality agricultural products from beef, to cereals to dairy products sustainably continue to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Just Transition (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: As part of the Climate Action Plan 2021, the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) undertook research into how a just transition approach to agriculture and land use in Ireland can ensure that climate targets are met in a manner that is socially inclusive, economically viable, and environmentally sustainable. The project was supported by a multi-stakeholder working group, on which my...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Labour Market (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...165,000 people, representing 6.5% of total employment, of which just over 100,000 are working in primary agriculture. However, many farm holders and their family members work part-time on the land in addition to their main employment and the CSO census in 2020 indicated that there were 278,580 family and regular non-family workers on Irish farms. Ireland is currently very close to full...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: A herdnumber is an administrative device, issued by my Department for the purposes of disease control. A herdnumber, therefore, does not imply ownership of land or ownership of any animals tested or kept under that herdnumber. There are two roles associated with a herdnumber - a herdowner and a keeper. The role of keeper can only be assigned to one natural person over the age of 18. This is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Rewarding ecosystem services through Carbon Farming is an important enabler for the agriculture and land use sectors to meet our climate targets. As set out in the most recent Climate Action Plan (2023), I have committed to the development of an enabling framework which can potentially reward farmers and landowners engaged in emission mitigating and carbon removal activities. Research is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: In 2022, my Department completed a detailed study of abandoned lands that were declared as farmed as part of the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS).Of the close to 1.2 million parcels declared as part of BPS only a very small number of parcels (<100) were found to be fully abandoned, with no farming activity taking place in the parcel. Based on these figures, it would be fair to say that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: In April 2022 Coillte launched a new and ambitious strategic vision for its future forest estate, which aims to sustainably balance and deliver the multiple benefits of Ireland’s state forests across four strategic pillars: Climate, Nature, Wood and People. These four strategic pillars are fully aligned with my Department's recently published Forest Strategy for Ireland. Following...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...supports for Beef and Sheep sectors (€200/cow; €20/ewe).Over €700 million in funding in 2024 for agri-environment initiatives.€8m in targeted support for Tillage farmers.Key agri-taxation supports secured and land leasing targeted at active farmers.Expanding ACRES to accommodate the full 50k participants promised under the CSP.€57m allocation to support...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Table 1 shows the volume of all landings into Irish ports in the 10 years from 2013 to 2022. The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) is responsible for the collection of landings data and the data in Table 1 was taken from the Annual Statistics section of the SFPA website. This table indicates that in the 10 years between 2013 and 2022, 2020 was the year with the greatest volume of fish...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...deliver on the environmental objectives of the EU Green Deal and on our own agri-food strategy Food Vision 2030. It has to be acknowledged that soil drainage poses particular challenges in Ireland. There is a great variety of soils and soil problems which means that every drainage challenge on soils is unique. The reduced management intensity of drained organic soils is an entirely new...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ..., and the processing and manufacture of food, beverages and wood products, exported goods valued at a record €18.98 billion, accounting for 9% of all the merchandised goods exported from Ireland. Farm-families and the products that they produce from the land contribute massively to this output. While many challenges exist, it is clear that the output from our agricultural land...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...2023. In addition, according to Bord Iascaigh Mhara’s annual Business of Seafood reports, fisheries production has levelled off in general over the last few years, apart from fluctuations in landings of pelagic species, including mackerel and blue whiting, reflecting the year-on-year fluctuations in quota allocations. Employment in the overall seafood sector has been stable in the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: .... The €258 million programme will provide a wide range of supports for fishers and the wider development of the seafood sector, including support for capital investment on board, capital investment ashore relating to the landing obligation, innovation in fishing gear and methods, technical advice to the fleet, acquisition of first vessel by young fishers, supports to the inshore...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: My position has been consistent- each sector, including agriculture, will need to play its part to achieve Ireland's climate targets. Climate Action Plan 2023 sets out the pathway to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the sector and Climate Action Plan 2024, which is nearing finalisation, will build on this approach. These measures are grouped around three themes: inputs and additives,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Correspondence (13 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...CRISS), Areas of Natural Constraints (ANC) and ECO schemes was received from the above named applicant on the 19th of April, 2023. The applicant requested an increase in the eligible area of a land parcel at application time and confirmed this via the preliminary check response they submitted on the 21st of June 2023. Geotag photos were supplied by the applicant in support of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (13 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...and has a number of climate- and environment-focused farming practices, including practices aimed at reducing chemical nitrogen usage, increasing tree planting, increasing nature- and biodiversity-rich land areas and encouraging extensive livestock production;The ACRES scheme, underpinned by a greater focus on results-based actions and on collective actions aimed at achieving...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (13 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department has no record of an Organic Farming Scheme application for the person named, nor of an organic licence or organic land claimed on their 2023 BISS application. However, the Organic Farming Scheme is currently open for new applications until the 15th of December 2023 and they may apply if they so wish.