Results 541-560 of 22,620 for speaker:Charlie McConalogue

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Activities (5 Mar 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Ballyhaise Agricultural College is one of four Teagasc owned colleges. The day to day running of the colleges, including farm operations, is an operational matter for Teagasc. I am advised that Teagasc is aware of a recent inaccurate media report regarding the dates on which slurry was spread in Ballyhaise. Teagasc has confirmed for the record that slurry was not spread during the closed...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS) scheme is an exceptionally important support to farmers. To date in excess €675 million has been paid out to 119,296 farmers who applied under the 2023 scheme. Attached is a breakdown in tabular form of the total amount of 2023 BISS scheme payments made to farmers on a per county basis for 2023 applications which have been paid up...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Complementary Redistributive Income Support for Sustainability (CRISS) is designed to ensure redistribution of direct payments from larger holdings to medium and smaller sized holdings. The support is provided in the form of an annual decoupled payment per eligible hectare to farmers who are entitled to a payment under the Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS). CRISS payment is made...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: As of 23 February 2024, a total of 116,594 famers were paid €298,336,621 under the 2023 Eco-Scheme. A breakdown of numbers of herds paid by county as follows:- County Number of Herds Paid Gross Amount Paid Carlow 1496 4,516,353 Cavan 4554 9,041,108 Clare 5757 ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The information requested is provided in the table below. Interim payments to ACRES participants, which issued last week, are included in this table. Interim payments will issue to the remaining participants in the coming weeks. Intensive work will continue on the calculation of the payments due to farmers under ACRES. When this work is completed, the ACRES payments, which will issue to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (5 Mar 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The following table shows the total amounts and number of payees per county in payments made by my Department under the forestry schemes in 2023. These payments include grants and premiums under the afforestation schemes and grants under the support schemes. The major component of these payments were subsequent premiums due for forests planted under the Afforestation schemes. It includes...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The named person applied to sell entitlements in 2023, although a different amount to that stated. Processing of that application has been fully completed and letters have issued to both parties. This was all of the entitlements available to the named person in 2023 and there is no record of a further application to sell entitlements. The named person also has additional entitlements which...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Properties (5 Mar 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I wish to inform the Deputy that my Department did not pay any ground rents in the years 2016 to date. As regards the 13 State Bodies under the aegis of my Department, the information requested is an operational matter for the State Bodies themselves. I have referred the Deputy’s question to the Agencies and have requested that a response should issue within 10 days.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Work Permits (5 Mar 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My colleague the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment has lead responsibility for employment permits. Arising from my ongoing engagement with our sector stakeholders, my Department is in regular contact with that Department regarding the labour shortages that exist in certain sub-sectors of agri-food. I am informed that 1,385 employment permits were issued in 2023 to the Agriculture,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Policy (5 Mar 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: At the end of January, I launched a public consultation to guide the development of the National Biomethane Strategy with my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan T.D. There has been a considerable response to the consultation and the closing date for submissions has been extended to 5 March 2024. In Ireland, the development of a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Gorse Burning (5 Mar 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: An application for participation in the 2023 Basic Income Support for Sustainability Scheme (BISS), Complementary Redistributive Support for Sustainability (CRISS), Areas of Natural Constraints (ANC) and ECO schemes was received from the above named applicant on the 27th May, 2023. Following a review of parcels by satellite imagery parcels within this application were identified as being...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Scheme (TAMS 3), which opened for applications in February 2023, provides grants to farmers to build and/or improve a specified range of farm buildings and equipment on their holdings. Applications received prior to the opening of TAMS 3 have all been assessed by my Department. These fall under the TAMS II scheme, which closed for applications in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The named organisation is owned and operated by industry stakeholders and charged with ensuring stakeholder responsibility for the direction of livestock breeding in Ireland. The breeding direction and development and operation of Breeding indices are therefore a matter for ICBF. Pedigree breeders are represented on the Board of the organisation. The organisation has recently established...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The purpose of the ACRES scheme is to help farmers to address a range of environmental, climate and biodiversity and challenges, and to contribute to the achievement of the objectives set out in this respect in Ireland's 2023-2027 CAP Strategic Plan. The tiered structure, and the criteria for acceptance into the Scheme, were therefore designed to optimise the extent to which the Scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The persons named submitted applications under the young farmer category of the 2023 National Reserve and also the Complementary Income Support for Young Farmers. The National Reserve application was successful, and the persons named were notified of this outcome on 22nd February. Payment based on the allocation from the National Reserve will issue as soon as possible. Processing of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Cathaoirleach and members for promptly putting this on the agenda of the committee and dealing with the pre-legislative work on the proposed Bill. As the Cathaoirleach stated, it has been on the agenda for some time and we are very keen to progress it through the Houses of the Oireachtas. Key to that is this initial engagement with the committee and the thoughts and feedback of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The reason is that an error in fact of law would be obvious quicker whereas a change in circumstances might happen a few months after and might not be as obvious at the start. That is the reason for the difference between the three months and the six months being proposed here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Bill proposes to introduce a time limit of six months for the seeking of a review of the decision of an appeals officer in the event of new evidence or facts or a change in circumstances since the decision was made. Where a review is sought, that would go to another appeals officer on the 12-person appeals board for consideration. That is where there has been a change of circumstance or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: A fact of law is where someone believes the law was not applied properly, or believes the facts were not properly reflected and the decision does not stack up in the face of the facts that the person presented or does not stack up in regard to the application of the law to the decision. In that case, at present, people can appeal it to the director of the appeals office. Under this new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes.