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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): I thank the Deputy and agree with him. We have a sense of what we know we should be doing. On the data piece, I agree that we could wait forever for exact data, and it is continually evolving anyway in some regards. Even recently, data from Teagasc last year showed that we have overestimated...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 98 and 280 together. As a Minister for Agriculture, I’m acutely aware of the difficulties experienced by both tillage and grassland farmers due to the exceptionally wet weather we have endured since last harvest. Met Éireann data has shown that all stations had rainfall in excess of their Long-Term Average, with stations such as Cork Airport and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
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Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...built all over the country. More houses were built last year in Ireland than in any year since 2008. You would not often think it given the debates in this place, but let there be no doubt about it. More homes were built in Ireland last year than in any year since 2008, and data on the number of new homes completed in quarter 1 of this year is due for release tomorrow. I expect that to...

Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Malcolm Noonan: ...officer in every county and, by the end of the year, the set should be complete, along with a local biodiversity action plan. I am very grateful to the Heritage Council for its collaboration on this work. The National Biodiversity Data Centre is now on a stable footing and working closely with the NPWS and other stakeholders on key priorities, including invasive species and data...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing: Irish Harness Racing Association (17 Apr 2024)

...has been obtained and leased in Armagh; and we have identified a site for a new track in Dublin as a joint venture with one other local sporting organisation. We made an endowment application under the IIP scheme for the facility in Dublin. The bottom line is that in order to become financially independent, we need to acquire a tote licence. In December 2021, the IHRA made a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Farm Assist and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (17 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers' Association, we appreciate the opportunity to address the committee regarding the profound impact of means testing on farm assist and other crucial social welfare schemes. Our submission seeks to shed light on the unique challenges faced by farmers in rural communities throughout Ireland, highlighting the necessity for fair and equitable access to support...

Seanad: Agriculture: Statements (16 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: I welcome the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, to the House. As someone who grew up on a tillage farm and dabbled in the agriculture sector, I will keep my comments mostly to those areas I am familiar with. I certainly welcome the Minister's comments and his outline supports for tillage farmers. Once a tillage farming girl, always a tillage farming girl. Over recent months I have found...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...the measures required by the Nitrates Action Programme are adequately resourced?" IFI notes and welcomes the relevant resources in respect of supports and enforcement outlined by Mr. Bill Callanan of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine at this committee’s meeting held on 6 March. IFI is also a member of the Environmental Protection Agency's national agricultural...

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

Charlie McConalogue: In 2023 under the CAP Strategic Plan (CSP), my Department introduced a wide range of new schemes to assist Irish farmers, including the Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS), the Complementary Redistributive Income Support for Sustainability (CRISS), ECO scheme and ACRES. These schemes were designed to directly support farm incomes and also to reward farmers for undertaking actions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

...for the European Commission. The State should map out the most effective mitigation measures on a catchment scale and provide realistic time horizons for the actions adopted by farmers. The agriculture water quality working group recommends a strong focus on improving slurry storage capacity on farms. While we welcome the current provision of accelerated capital allowances for slurry...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2024)

Heather Humphreys: While sectoral supports in this area are a matter for the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the Department of Social Protection administers the Farm Assist scheme, which is a statutory means-tested income support specifically for farmers on low-incomes. There are approximately 4,000 claims in payment at present. The Government has provided €50.93 million for the scheme...

Seanad: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Feb 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State. The purpose of the Bill is to consolidate and update the legislative provisions that regulate the employment permit scheme. The 2018 review of economic migration policy, of which the Minister of State is aware, endorsed the robust fundamental structure of the existing system. However, it went on to recommend that legislation should be initiated. I take it...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan (22 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...Action Plan (CAP) that will play a key role in the achievement of Ireland’s climate targets. Evidence of these actions is already being reflected in the most recent EPA Inventory reports, where Agriculture reduced emissions in 2022 by 1.2% compared to 2021. The Programme for Government set an ambitious target for the Organic sector, to triple the organic land area to 336,000...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (22 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: CAP payments are a critical source of income for the many family farms that we have in Ireland. The CAP Strategic Plan, which was launched in 2023, will underpin the sustainable development of our agricultural sector by: (i) supporting viable farm incomes and enhancing competitiveness, (ii) contributing to the achievement of environmental and climate objectives at national and EU...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (22 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...of actions and measures to improve environmental sustainability on Irish farms including soil health and nutrient management. In the first instance, conditionality controls in respect of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments are part of this approach. Conditionality is a set of Statutory Management Requirements (SMR's) and Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition (GAEC)...

Estimates for Public Services 2024 (14 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ...Act 2004. Vote 24 — Justice (Revised Estimate)That a sum not exceeding €523,061,000 be granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2024, for the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Justice, Probation Service staff and of certain other services including payments under cash-limited...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: 276. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 494 of 23 January 2024; if he would overlay the sentinel 1 survey data with the OPW flood maps of the Shannon Callows to finally resolve disputes with regard to the scale of summer flooding due to grass cover; or alternatively if he would apply winter sentinel 1 survey data at the same water...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Peter Burke: ...the agreement with the UK authorities, we have not formally heard anything from the Commission but I suspect it is okay. I do not see any great concerns being raised in connection with it. The agreement on data sharing a few months before the Windsor Framework was a significant milestone because it gave the EU authorities full access to the revenue and customs authorities in the UK so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Role of Chairperson and Future Contributions of Inland Fisheries Ireland and the Board: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Feb 2024)

...as environment-related activities. In the 1990s, I chaired the national rural water monitoring committee, which was a national committee advising the Minister on the upgrading of rural group water schemes, which had reached serious levels of problems in terms of quality and meeting health requirements at that time. In the early 2000s, I was a member of the three-person group that...