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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: ...the Revised Estimates for 2024 to the committee today. My Department's budget for 2024 was specifically designed to support farm and fishing families. This has been achieved with vital livestock schemes secured, environmental schemes bolstered in funding, new infrastructure measures introduced to support farmers who are impacted by the nitrates derogation and support provided for the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (30 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Carbon Farming is a potential enabler in assisting the agricultural and land use sectors in meeting Ireland’s climate targets as set out in its most recent Climate Action Plan (2024) as well as providing a potential new income stream for farmers in the future. My Department held a public consultation in September 2023 on Carbon Farming and positive feedback was received from...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: ...situation and required that they purchase fodder to maintain animal health and welfare during the winter months. It is in that context that the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, announced a new scheme, the Shannon Callows flood scheme, on 7 November last to support affected farmers in the Shannon Callows. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine announced funding of...

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

Charlie McConalogue: Carbon Farming is a potential enabler in assisting the agricultural and land use sectors in meeting Ireland’s climate targets as set out in its most recent Climate Action Plan (2024) as well as providing a potential new income stream for farmers in the future. To support the development of a National Carbon Farming Framework, my Department is working with EIT Climate KIC on a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Jan 2024)

Denis Naughten: 494. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to Shannon Callows Flooding Scheme, if the Sentinel satellite data aerial monitoring system is incapable of picking up images of water in the middle of the Callow land if grass is growing 3/4 ft high; the reason other open source satellite data which could identify water in such circumstances was not used; if any on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Research and Development (17 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Peatlands and Wetlands across Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland, with financial support from the INTERREG VA programme. Match-funding provided by my Department along with the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland, and NatureScot in Scotland. 2002 CABB Interreg project Cooperation Across Borders for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Sector (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I welcome the engagement with the agriculture committee on this issue and the discussion in respect of it. I am sure the ICBF will welcome and consider any proposals or suggestions arising from that. It is set up with a board, which includes very strong farmer representation, and is considering the matter. The aspect I am considering is the impact on the SCEP scheme in the context of...

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

Charlie McConalogue: ...food systems, producing top quality, safe, nutritious, sustainable food. With a growing global population, it is critically important that countries like Ireland that can produce quality agricultural products from beef, to cereals to dairy products sustainably continue to produce that food. That food production system must also strive to continually reduce emissions as Ireland is...

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

Charlie McConalogue: Rewarding ecosystem services through Carbon Farming is an important enabler for the agriculture and land use sectors to meet our climate targets. As set out in the most recent Climate Action Plan (2023), I have committed to the development of an enabling framework which can potentially reward farmers and landowners engaged in emission mitigating and carbon removal activities. Research is...

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

Charlie McConalogue: ...management intensity of drained organic soils is an entirely new area of work with much uncertainty and complexity, which Ireland will need to pioneer an approach to. The uncertainty is caused by data gaps in respect to the location of organic soils, the nature of land management and intensity, the drainage location and status and the level of GHG emissions emitted from these soils in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

...has been widespread as part of the purchasing decisions of stock bulls in recent years, especially given the link between the star ratings and the terms and conditions of the recent beef technology schemes implemented by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, namely, the beef data and genomics programme, BDGP, and the suckler cow efficiency programme, SCEP. How do we know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of TB: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

.... We have gone through a process over the last 12 to 14 months on deer management. We set up the deer management strategy group in September of last year. We were set up by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage who has responsibility for the National Parks and Wildlife Service. We started...

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

Claire Kerrane: 185. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of the Beef Environmental Efficiency Programme Sucklers and Beef Data and Genomics Programme schemes in their final year respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55573/23]

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (7 Dec 2023)

Jerry Buttimer: ...for Education to make a statement on the assessments carried out on the need for a new secondary school for the Duleek area in County Meath. Senator Timmy Dooley - The need for the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to make a statement on the regrading of animals under the beef data and genomics programme. Senator Tim Lombard - The need for the Minister for Housing, Local...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Beef Sector (7 Dec 2023)

Pippa Hackett: ...5-star status after changes. Of the remaining animals previously rated as 4- or 5-star animals, as many will rise in the index as will fall. The suckler carbon efficiency programme, SCEP, is an agricultural scheme which aims to provide support to beef farmers to improve the environmental sustainability of the national beef herd. The programme aims to build on the gains delivered in...

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

Charlie McConalogue: ...butter, cheese and Irish whiskey. Preliminary Central Statistics Office (CSO) results indicate that in 2022, the agrifood sector accounted for 6.7% of GNI*, up from 6.2% in 2021 and 6.4% in 2020. CSO data also indicates the value of output at producer prices or farm gate prices rose from €8.4 billion in 2020 to €12.3 billion in 2022, an increase of 47%. At the same time...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: I want to touch briefly on the fact that in advance of the full European Council, the Agriculture and Fisheries Council will discuss the first year implementation of the CAP strategic plans based on reports from the Commission and the Presidency. I imagine the Minister for agriculture is grateful that it will be based on information to be received from his Department. If it were based on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the committee for the invitation and the opportunity to discuss the agriculture and land use, land use change and forestry chapter of the Climate Change Advisory Council’s annual review. We have binding commitments to deliver on reducing emissions, through the Paris Agreement and as a member of the EU, and at home through our targets set out in the climate Act. The Government...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: ...which applies a reduced rate of capital gains tax to gains up to the twice the value of the initial investment. This will offer additional funding support for innovative start-up SMEs. In this same vein, the employment investment incentive scheme is enhanced by standardisation of the investment period to four years and doubling the amount of relief which an investor can claim. Subject to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Court of Auditors Annual Report 2022: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

...totalled €196 billion, of which €2.4 billion relates to funding that has been received by us from the EU. As members are probably aware, the vast bulk of it is with regard to direct payments and European agricultural fund rural for development, EAFRD, payments so, basically, agricultural subsidies and related schemes. The balance is small figures. In terms of cohesion, the...