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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (20 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Departments Eco-Scheme section have processed over 95% of the 122,289 applications received in 2023 with payments of over €297 million having issued already. Validations and compliance checks on the remaining 5% of applications are ongoing and payment including on the specific case raised by the Deputy will issue shortly. Staff in my Department will contact the person named in...

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The town most impacted by Brexit in Ireland, if not Europe, is Killybegs. With regard to Brexit adjustment reserve funding, I put €33 million into Killybegs over the past two years through various schemes. The processing sector in Killybegs alone got €12 million in grants. Recently, €8 million was made available for the pelagic liquidity aid scheme. Over the three...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Sector Staff (14 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...) Enforcement Authority which was previously located within my Department. The UTPEA, when it was an office of my Department, was staffed with an FTE of 3 officers in 2021; FTE of 4 officers in 2022 and FTE of 5 officers in 2023 up until 13 December 2023. This figure includes the CEO-designate who was appointed on 22nd May 2023, initially taking over as head of the interim Unfair Trading...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (13 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022, the Deputy will be aware that on 15 June 2022, I announced the launch of the €56 million Fodder Support Scheme. The aim of the scheme was to incentivise farmers to grow more fodder. Building on the success of the 2022 Fodder Support Scheme, on 2 November 2022, I launched the 2023 Fodder Support Scheme. The 2023 Fodder...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: On the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland, we are scheduled to pay approximately €5 million to SBCI in 2024. That is for the growth and sustainability loan scheme. It is covered by €10.5 million of savings from the agriculture cashflow support loan scheme. That accounts for that. We have a couple of really good schemes, such as the future growth loan support scheme,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My department's deferred surrender from 2023 into 2024 amounts to €45.6 million. Details of 2023 spending and savings are currently being compiled and finalised. They will be published by the Comptroller and Auditor General in the 2023 Appropriation Account. The source of the €45.6million is set out in the table below. Subhead Title Amount Carried...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...aspect, but also there is the usability of it. Taking that into account is something I will be considering in the round. On the timelines, as the Deputy will know, we have a budget of €370 million over the period from this year to 2027. Tranche 1 of TAMS 3 closed on 30 June 2023, with 8,241 applications received. Overall, the scheme has proved very popular, with an...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...in landings of pelagic species, including mackerel and blue whiting, reflecting the year-on-year fluctuations in quota allocations. Employment in the overall seafood sector has been stable in the last 5-10 years although employment in the fishing fleet has tended to fall with pressures from other sectors competing for employees. Exports showed an upward pattern in recent years but dipped...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (13 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...livestock production;The ACRES scheme, underpinned by a greater focus on results-based actions and on collective actions aimed at achieving landscape-scale benefits. The Government has committed €1.5 billion to facilitate the participation of 50,000 farmers.The Organic Farming Scheme aimed at more than tripling the area of agricultural land that is farmed organically. The budget for...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...to make sure that we make use of the savings in the Department's Vote and to provide for Brexit adjustment reserve, BAR, schemes and Ukraine-related schemes. In gross terms, an additional €90.9 million is required by my Department to meet costs that have arisen in 2023. That is broken down as follows: €17.5 million for BAR fishery schemes; €68.4 million for Rosslare...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...payment. We did the advance payment of the fodder scheme at the end of last year and we are now doing the balancing payment. We are taking some of that from savings but we need an extra €5 million in new funding, which is coming from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Delivery and Reform by way of this Supplementary Estimate. That is what the €5...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Policies (7 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: In recognition of the difficulties experienced by the tillage and horticultural sectors this year, I secured €9.53 million from the EU Agricultural Reserve of which €7.147 million will go to support the tillage sector and €2.382 to the horticulture sector. The tillage allocation will be distributed as a one-off flat rate payment of €28 per hectare on the area...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (7 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...tonnage of 6,300 GT representing 80% of the original target of 8,000 Gross Tonnes to be voluntarily withdrawn from the Irish fleet as recommended by the Seafood Taskforce, at a total cost of €60 million. Of the 39 vessels proceeding:35 vessels have been decommissioned.4 are currently being dismantled and will be completed in November.To date, 34 of the 39 vessels have been paid...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (7 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...termed Horizon Europe, specifically under Cluster 6 ‘Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment’ and the associated Soil Mission. For my own Department, over €245 million has been committed since 2010 to research conducted across the agriculture, food, forestry and bioeconomy sectors. The research is currently supported through five strands...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tillage Sector (26 Oct 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...requested and secured support for the sector from the EU agriculture reserve in light of the significant challenges relating to the weather and harvest this year. A support package of €7.1 million has been allocated to the sector under this fund. A one-off flat-rate payment of €28 per hectare will be made on the area of oilseed rape, winter and spring barley, wheat and rye...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (26 Oct 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...manure nitrogen per hectare. However in return, our derogation farmers are subject to stricter environmental conditions, including a higher inspection rate. Last year saw the introduction of Ireland’s 5thNitrates Action Programme where the scope of some existing measures was broadened, other measures were expanded, and a number of new measures were introduced to drive improvements...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (26 Oct 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...deal with the difficult trading conditions that have arisen because of Brexit. It also aimed to help the sector transition to longer-term restructuring measures. The scheme had a budget of €3.5 million, with payments of between €2,700 and €4,000 available to eligible inshore fishers. As of 25 October 2023, a total of 737 applications have been received with a total...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (26 Oct 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...is an important and integral component of the Agri-Food industry which I have strongly supported in recent years. I doubled the annual budget for the Protein Aid Scheme from €3 to €7 million. The Straw Incorporation Measure (SIM) has paid €19.5 million to tillage farmers since it was launched as a pilot in 2021. I announced €7 million in additional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...applying from 1 January at the level advised by ICES. In previous years, the Commission developed a plan for provisional TACs for the first three months of the year. That saw TACs for most stocks set at 25% of the previous year's total allowable catch level, with the full total allowable catch applied for coastal state stocks such as mackerel and blue whiting. While this situation is...