Results 1-12 of 12 for agriculture scheme data speaker:Andrew Doyle

Agrifood and Rural Development: Motion (24 Sep 2019)

Andrew Doyle: ...to try to find a resolution to the current dispute. These were only the latest talks in a series of formal discussions between beef stakeholders that have been facilitated by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. These commenced with a meeting on 12 August and continued over the past month. In addition, both the Minister, Deputy Creed, and I have had ongoing bilateral...

Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2019)

Andrew Doyle: ...Geographical Indication for Irish beef and on promotional activity for Irish beef in key target markets; — a public consultation process on the transposition of the Unfair Trading Practices Directive and the establishment of a regulator for the sector will shortly commence; and — Area of Natural Constraint scheme payments are being commenced this week and all other payments...

Beef Sector: Statements (17 Sep 2019)

Andrew Doyle: ...the major processors. We can get over this but the Members, as policymakers, can continue to respond. We have put in place numerous measures built on driving farm efficiency, be it the beef data and genomics programme, BDGP, or the beef efficiency programme. We have established environmental measures and targeted agricultural modernisation schemes, TAMS, for farm safety. We have...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Beef Industry (30 Jan 2019)

Andrew Doyle: ...of the unique strengths of the agrifood sector has been the shared vision for its sustainable development in Food Wise 2025. It is crucial that we all continue to work together. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Creed, has utilised the beef round table to highlight the need for stakeholders to recognise their inter-dependency and support the sector through an...

Climate Change: Statements (6 Dec 2018)

Andrew Doyle: I am pleased to present the annual transition statement on the agriculture, forest and land use sector on behalf of the Department and the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. As one of the key sectors involved in the first national mitigation plan, it is only right to restate the vision for the sector which is an approach to carbon neutrality in the agriculture and land use...

Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Feb 2018)

Andrew Doyle: ...at harbours and piers, and the promotion of seafood through integration with tourism and community events. Island fishermen and other inshore fishermen can, of course, avail of a range of other schemes, such as the dedicated inshore fisheries conservation scheme with its own €6 million allocation. This scheme funds the popular lobster V-notching programme, providing direct...

Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Scheme Payments (2 Mar 2017)

Andrew Doyle: ...were the case that we could just pay the money. Under EU regulations, we cannot do so. In the first instance, approximately 54% of the payment is EU rural development fund money. There are six schemes under the rural development programme - GLAS A and C, the beef data and genomics programme, the sheep welfare scheme, the targeted agricultural modernisation schemes and the knowledge...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Dec 2015)

Andrew Doyle: If the beef data genomics programme was proposed after the current climate change summit in Paris, especially when people's minds are focused on the issue, it would be much easier to introduce it. In the public mind, the bovine sector is seen as the largest contributor in agriculture to greenhouse gas emissions. Given that beef production accounts for half or more of that output, this...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Andrew Doyle: There are two quick points I would like to make following on from points that were made by others. One is on beef data. If, as may be the case, it pans out that there is an ongoing underspend and the provision of €52 million turns out not to be met, would the Minister consider providing a similar scheme to improve quality based on the same principles in the sheep sector?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Total Allowable Catches and Quotas for 2015 under Common Fisheries Policy: BirdWatch Ireland (7 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: ...and the establishment of relationships. Deputy Ferris highlighted the matter of the oysters. There must be buy-in, and it is the same in any sector - for example, greenhouse gas reduction in the agriculture sector. There must be trust. If the evidence says stocks are depleted and need to be conserved, we must have a reserve area and boxes knocked off from fishing, but when the evidence...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Irish Farm Managers Association (4 Dec 2012)

Andrew Doyle: ...retain an active core membership, partly because some people came to view farming as a sunset industry. I should declare an interest in that I am a product or survivor of the farm apprenticeship scheme and Mr. Moyles was my mentor. He and the three other gentlemen from the association possess a wealth of knowledge, having developed a business from a base in which they did not own land....

Written Answers — Energy Conservation: Energy Conservation (17 Jun 2008)

Andrew Doyle: Question 604: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his Department has established baseline data on energy inputs for each agricultural sector in addition to base line data for greenhouse gas emissions by the farming sector; the estimates for greenhouse gas emissions by the farming sector here for 2006 to 2008; the supports for farmers to pursue production efficiencies...