Results 341-360 of 3,646 for speaker:Claire Kerrane
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (1 Feb 2024)
Claire Kerrane: 333. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1159 of 17 January 2024, with regard to the number of applications submitted to the women farmer capital investment scheme under TAMS III, the reason no applications have been approved yet of the 259 submitted; how many applications of those submitted are expected to be accepted to the scheme;...
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (1 Feb 2024)
Claire Kerrane: 393. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when CLÁR funding will be available in 2024. [4732/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (1 Feb 2024)
Claire Kerrane: 394. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide a list of funding available to women’s sheds. [4733/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (1 Feb 2024)
Claire Kerrane: 395. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a women’s shed (details supplied) set up in May 2023, that received its PPN number in November 2023, can avail of funding via the local authority. [4734/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (1 Feb 2024)
Claire Kerrane: 396. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to advise of any possible funding to complete the set-up of a facility (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4783/24]
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister and his officials for all the documentation provided and for being here this evening. I have a couple of questions regarding a number of reductions in spend, one of which concerns the difference between 2024 and 2023 in programme A. First, on administration and non-pay, there is a fairly significant reduction of 51%. Could the Minister elaborate on what this relates to?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Claire Kerrane: That is great. I thank the Minister for the clarification. With regard to food safety, animal and plant health and animal welfare, there is a reduction of 17%. Animal welfare and all of that is very important and it is significant to the Department. The Minister might explain that reduction.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Claire Kerrane: The Cathaoirleach referenced the reduction in TB eradication and we have seen the cases increase slightly or at the very least remain stagnant and not reducing, which we would all like to see. I heard the Minister's response to the Cathaoirleach but will he elaborate because it is a disease of concern to farmers? We see TB rise - in some cases just slightly - so to see a reduction in TB...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister. With regard to the agri-environmental schemes, again there is a reduction there of minus 31%. I note in the other documentation on the number of applicants to pay under ACRES commencing 2023 that there is a 2024 output target figure of 28,200. In fairness, the Minister made it clear it is 50,000 within ACRES so what is that 28,200 output target for 2024?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Claire Kerrane: On page 125 of the documentation, when it goes through the details of the programmes, it states under the number of applications to pay under ACRES the output figure for 2024 is 28,200. I know only about 4,000 applications being approved so I am wondering what the 28,200 is. I presume that will be oversubscribed and there will not be exactly 4,000 applications. More will look for the...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister. Does he know how many applications have been submitted for ACRES in the next tranche for this year yet?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Claire Kerrane: I presume the Department will stick to 4,000 approvals.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Claire Kerrane: How they will be selected?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Claire Kerrane: On the same page of the documentation, under the number of participants in the suckler carbon efficiency programme, SCEP, the 2023 target has been reduced for 2024. Some farmers have left that scheme and some farmers have been put out of that scheme based on the criteria as it is, so that is fine. With regard to the 2024 figure of 17,100, if and should some tweaks be made to the SCEP, which...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Claire Kerrane: On the same table, the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, TAMS, and the number of applications paid, approved and rejected are documented there. Does the Minister have figures for the number of TAMS applications that remain outstanding within the Department at the moment?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Claire Kerrane: The Department is working to that timeline and that is what is expected.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Claire Kerrane: Does the Minister have a figure for what was left unspent in the Brexit Adjustment Reserve, BAR, funding? Has that funding gone at this point?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Claire Kerrane: With regard to ACRES, the farmers and the co-operation zones, the Minister has set a date of February. Does the Minister know what specific date it will be in February?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Claire Kerrane: Will the Minister give any further detail on when he expects those payments to be made and the criteria for them, etc?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Claire Kerrane: That is very welcome. I thank the Minister.