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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 340. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 544, 545, 546, 547, 548, 549, 550, 551, 552 and 553 of 25 May 2021, the budget available for the reconstitution and underplanting scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35029/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 342. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the State has assumed the ownership or beneficial interest or any other rights to all or any of the carbon sequestered in Irish forests both private and public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35031/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 345. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the attendance by his officials at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Marine on 27 May 2021, if the detailed calculations used by his officials in determining the stated total volume licensed for both 2020 and 2021 in both the private sector and Coillte will be provided; the quantity of the stated volume...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 346. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the attendance by his officials at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Marine on 27 May 2021, the person or body who has represented the forestry industry on the CAP consultative committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35035/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 347. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who planted and afforested in each of the previous five years to GLAS, that is, 2010 to 2014, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35037/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 348. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of unique farmer applicants for the REPS per year while it was in operation or since its launch in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35038/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 351. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applicants for REPS by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35059/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 353. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there was a penalty or claw back of moneys, grant or scheme payments to farmers who were in REPS that decided to convert a part of their farm to forestry during the duration of their REPS plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35061/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 354. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number farmers in GLAS that did not take the GLAS extension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35062/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 355. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if 40% of pillar 1 expenditure must contribute towards climate change objectives and at least 30% of Rural Development Plan must focus on specific environmental and climate related objectives in accordance with the Cap Strategic Plan draft regulations; if afforestation of areas greater than 0.1 hectares and over can contribute...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 357. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the persons or bodies that provided forestry and specifically afforestation opportunity integration input into the terms and conditions of the REAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35076/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 358. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will publish the policy analysis carried out by his Department on the impact GLAS has had on afforestation uptake rates and on the afforestation grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35077/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 360. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 283 and 288 of 27 May 2021, the total area of land on a per county basis committed to the GLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35079/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 361. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the SWOT analysis and needs assessment for the CSP and the eco scheme and agri-environment referred to in his answer to Parliamentary Question No. 292 of 27 May 2021 took account of the detail and table in the replies to Parliamentary Question Nos. 283 and 288 of 27 May 2021 and correspondingly the reply to Parliamentary...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 362. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual afforestation rate necessary per annum from 2021 to 2060 to sustain the ability of the national forest estate to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35081/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Communications (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 363. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if officials in his Department were ever contacted by phone, letter, electronically, questioned formally or informally, under caution or asked to make a statement by An Garda Síochána in relation to milk quota racketeering in respect of a person (details supplied); if his Department is aware of this case; the efforts his...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 365. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the most recent COFORD advice on afforestation rates necessary on an annual basis from 2020 to achieve climate change targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35100/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 366. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual afforestation rate necessary to achieve the carbon sequestration and other objectives for forestry as identified in the Teagasc MACC curve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35101/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 368. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of unique farmer applicants for the AEOS per year while it was in operation or since its launch in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35103/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jun 2021)

Michael Lowry: 369. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of AEOS applicants by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35104/21]