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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Applications (29 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 241. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the areas of natural constraint scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27965/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Applications (29 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal under the areas of natural constraint scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27966/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Applications (29 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) under the areas of natural constraint scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27967/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Applications (29 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) under the areas of natural constraint scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27968/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Applications (29 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal under the Areas of Natural Constraint scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27969/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Applications (29 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 246. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal under the areas of natural constraint scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27970/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Payments (29 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) under the ANC scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27972/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Payments (29 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 249. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person under the ANC scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27973/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Payments (29 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 250. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person under the ANC scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27974/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme (29 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 251. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have submitted samples by herd size in intervals of ten, that is, zero to ten, 11 to 20, and so on, by county, under the beef data genomics scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28038/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme (29 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 252. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers participating in the beef data genomics scheme that have completed a beef carbon navigator, on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28039/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Data (29 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 253. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have been approved for tier one, two and three and by county, for GLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28040/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit: Discussion with Mushroom Industry (27 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: I do not want to go back over issues that have been discussed. I support the position taken by my party's spokesperson on food and horticulture, Deputy Jackie Cahill. As indicated by the speakers, 30 years of hard work has gone into building up this business. Temporary issues arise following on from Brexit and there is an onus on us to ensure that the industry is supported through those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: I welcome the Minister and his officials and thank them for the reports which were supplied in advance of the meeting. This is an especially opportune time, given that we are just two weeks away from the budget. I wish to refer to a few matters in the Minister's statement as well as some items in the programmes. The Minister indicated that current expenditure is running at 92% of profile,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: The issue of the grain sector has been touched on and the Minister is convening the first tillage forum on 6 October. However, there are particularly acute issues along the western seaboard in my own county and many others where a significant part of the spring barley crop could not be harvested. It looks like a significant part of it will not be harvested as time will run out. While there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: Has the Minister been pushing the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to try to secure extra funding for his Department, given the income crisis, to bring forward the €25 million of areas of natural constraint, ANC, payments to support farmers' incomes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (27 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Chairman for agreeing to put this on the agenda today and asking the Minister, Deputy Creed, to deal with it while he was here. I thank the Minister for addressing it. Some serious questions need to be answered on the procedures that were used for the unprecedented reappointment of the chief executive of a semi-State for a second time. The Minister's opening remarks did not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (27 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: I asked the Minister, when the chairperson of the board of HRI approached him and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, whether he did do so as the chair of the board or on the basis that he was acting on direction of the board? Did he indicate that he had the full backing of the board for what he was doing and that the business plan was being presented with the endorsement of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (27 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: Does the Minister feel therefore that the letter misled him?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (27 Sep 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: It would seem fairly clear that it was on behalf of the board rather than the chairperson.