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Priority Questions: Fodder Crisis (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: I ask the Minister to reconsider the approach he is taking. The advice is and should be to use grain-based concentrates because increased demand for them does not lead to increased prices as they are bought at a world price and much of the grain has been imported already. When a transport subsidy for grass-based fodder is provided, the cost to the farmer is the purchase price and the cost...

Priority Questions: Fodder Crisis (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 30. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the number of applications received under the fodder aid transport subsidy scheme; when payments will issue; his plans to reconsider introducing a meal voucher scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7418/18]

Priority Questions: Fodder Crisis (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: Will the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine set out the number of applications received thus far under the fodder aid transport subsidy scheme? When will payments issue? Will the Minister reconsider the approach and introduce a meal voucher scheme, rather than the foolhardy approach he has taken? He has arranged for a subsidy for an already scarce fodder resource to transport it...

Priority Questions: Fodder Crisis (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: I am not surprised that the Department has not received any application yet because the applications process is exceptionally obscure. It is altogether unclear to the farming community. It has really been designed as no more than a public relations stunt by the Minister to try to give the impression that he is doing something to address the issue. In fact, the outcome of what he is doing...

Priority Questions: Fodder Crisis (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: The Minister is encouraging farmers to listen to their agricultural advisers and primarily use grain-based concentrates. That is the policy advice to deal with the fodder crisis and what farmers should do. They should listen to professional advice, but the Minister has decided to take a different approach. He has decided to bring forward a subsidy to transport silage and hay from the other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the delegates for their very comprehensive presentations. I apologise in advance as I will have to leave a little early. This discussion is timely. A number of the delegates were also before the Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment recently to discuss the same topic. There is no doubt that climate change and our carbon footprint will be key...

Priority Questions: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Funding (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 26. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the programme for Government commitment to increase areas of natural constraint, ANC, funding by €25 million in 2018 will be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7416/18]

Priority Questions: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Funding (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: When will the programme for Government commitment to increase areas of natural constraint, ANC, funding by €25 million in 2018 be delivered and how does the Minister propose to distribute and allocate that funding among the categories of disadvantaged area payments?

Priority Questions: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Funding (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister for his response. I agree with him that the ANC payment is an important one. The vast majority of farm families, approximately 100,000, receive it. One of the benefits of this funding is that all of it goes directly to farmers. I also agree on the proposed method of distribution of the funding, which is very much in line what I had proposed. I think it is a fair way...

Priority Questions: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Funding (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: It would serve the Minister well to focus on his own record rather than take comfort from policies that might have happened in the past, from which we should be learning. The Minister should refrain from citing what happened ten years ago under previous Administrations to justify what he is doing now. We need to look at what is on the table. According to the statistics from the Department...

Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: This is a question to the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy English, regarding the expert panel report on defective concrete blocks, an issue that affects up to 5,000 homes in Donegal. Will the Minister of State update the House on the progress in implementing the report's recommendations? Given that it has been more than a year since the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Data (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 55. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of GLAS 1, 2 and 3 farmers who have received their 2017 advance payment; the number who have not received this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7149/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Funding (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 65. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the programme for Government commitment to increase ANC funding by €25 million in 2018; and if increased payments will reflect the constraint of land type. [7150/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Crisis (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 75. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received for the fodder aid transport subsidy scheme; the reason he chose a transport subsidy option instead of a meal voucher scheme; if he will reconsider the decision and introduce a meal voucher scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7147/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Private Partnerships (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the tender process for the €200 million PPP investment in infrastructure in the higher education sector will be structured (details supplied); if there will be a separate tender for each of the 11 institutions which are to receive investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7044/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Private Partnerships (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a tender (details supplied) will be tendered via the traditional funding route in an effort to support companies on the Border in view of Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7205/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Data (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 316. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA supported jobs here; the number of jobs created and lost, respectively, in 2017, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7498/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 317. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the ratification procedure at EU and member state level for ratification of potential European trade agreements with the Mercosur trading bloc relating to market access and quotas; the elements that fall under exclusive EU-level competence; and the areas that require national level approval. [7499/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 463. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a system to facilitate persons (details supplied) fishing will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6785/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers Development (13 Feb 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 469. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when applications will be invited from local authorities for the development and maintenance of piers under the fishery harbour development scheme; the amount of funding that has been allocated to the scheme in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6858/18]