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Report of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (2 May 2024)

Dara Calleary: ...was successfully spun out of University College Cork’s environmental research institute, produces innovative software to simplify the process of planning, building and running a large offshore wind farm. Subsea Micropiles of Dublin is pioneering new high-performance seabed foundations and anchors to make offshore wind turbines more secure and reliable. Enterprise Ireland has...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nitrates Usage (21 Nov 2023)

Dara Calleary: I absolutely agree with the Deputy regarding the vilification of farmers. It is wrong. If we are to have a proper debate on climate change, which is real and happening and will be very real for every person, then vilifying one sector will not allow that. It is wrong and I agree with the Deputy that everybody has to shoulder the burden here. The Minister, Deputy McConalogue, deals daily...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nitrates Usage (21 Nov 2023)

Dara Calleary: ...on the implementing decision, including in relation to recent reports suggesting that there may be a prospect of delaying implementation. I know Deputy Healy-Rae will agree it is critically important that farmers have clarity on this matter, and that will be the focus of Commissioner Sinkevičius’ visit this Thursday. The Minister, Deputy McConalogue, will use this...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Heritage Sites (15 Nov 2023)

Dara Calleary: ...preserved by the formation of the raised bog. The building at Corlea was a prestigious construction of the period. Unlike the earlier tracks, its significance clearly transcends the needs of local farming communities and it may have been part of a network of major communications routes. The Corlea Trackway Visitor Centre was opened in 1994 and is built on the exact axis of trackway in...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Dara Calleary: ... — the upcoming negotiations between the European institutions; and supports the development of a Nature Restoration Regulation, which both protects nature and ensures the future vitality and viability of Irish farming and rural communities.". I thank Deputies Fitzmaurice, Harkin and McNamara for tabling this important motion. I acknowledge their bona fides in doing so and the...

Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 May 2023)

Dara Calleary: ...The CCPC also acts on its own initiative where it suspects there may have been a breach. I note the recent reductions by supermarket chains in respect of butter and milk products. I also caution that the Government has introduced and is finalising the journey of legislation relating to the agricultural and food supply chain. Farm families should not have to pay for the reductions in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Veterinary Services (21 Feb 2023)

Dara Calleary: .... Notwithstanding this, I agree with the Deputy, and the Government is aware there continues to be a significant number of vacant positions advertised on a regular basis, especially across the mixed-farm animal and companion animal sectors of the profession. We are particularly aware of concerns being raised about the availability of veterinary practitioners to provide services to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Representatives of the European Committee of the Regions (15 Jun 2022)

Dara Calleary: ...are and how great we have become because of the EU. It was, however, the personal inputs and the personal stories and reflections on the difference that EU membership has made to families and to farms that had resonance on the day. As a committee we must take the challenge. I was particularly struck by the warnings in Mr. Tzitzikostas' final remarks. As we get into our 50th year let it...

National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Plan: Statements (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: ...Nearly 14% of our national territory is designated for nature conservation and 90% of that is privately owned. That points to a need for better communication and co-operation with landowners and farm organisations. I do not think it is particularly well dealt with in the report. There is a need for a better sense of understanding and partnership regarding Natura. Some 25 years...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (8 Mar 2022)

Dara Calleary: ...to identify and pursue opportunities. I certainly will be happy to work with him on a location in Mayo for deep energy retrofitting and the provision of the skills necessary in terms of wind farm and offshore operation.

Town Centre First Policy: Statements (24 Feb 2022)

Dara Calleary: ...am all for the town centre but I am not going to say town centre first at the cost of rural communities, at the cost of rural families not being able to plan to live in their own rural areas, or at the cost of farm families not being able to live on their farm but being forced to commute 40-mile return trips to attend to their farms and farm animals, because they have to live in the town...

Regional Transport Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: ...and day-to-day living. That is the kind of sustainability we should seek in the climate action plan yet it seems the west coast is to be the location for offshore wind and onshore wind. Whatever kind of wind farm you are going for will be located in the west. We will be expected to provide the energy but we are at the end of the queue when it comes to the benefits. These are kind of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (21 Oct 2021)

Dara Calleary: ..., the Taoiseach and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, on the new CAP programme. It appears from the early signs that it is very positive and will support farming in our region in particular. On the extra €2.9 billion, how will the Minister ensure this money gets down to the farm table? There is so much red tape involved in schemes that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (5 Oct 2021)

Dara Calleary: 786. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will give consideration to the inclusion of equine farming in all Department funding schemes, for example, TAMS; if he will address its exclusion from these schemes to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48241/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Sep 2021)

Dara Calleary: 387. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider the inclusion of drone purchase in the TAMS programme to assist eligible farmers in herd and flock management, in land management and in farm security; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47352/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jun 2021)

Dara Calleary: 364. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the selection process for the signpost farms initiative; the reason one region (details supplied) does not have any such designated farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35098/21]

Common Agricultural Policy: Statements (16 Jun 2021)

Dara Calleary: ...'s debate on CAP to this evening's debate on the climate action plan. First, is the Minister satisfied that enough recognition has been given within the climate action plan to the efforts of Irish farmers and Irish agriculture? As for the ongoing issues that cannot be measured at the moment but which may be measured due to scientific advances in a couple of years' time, is there is...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Apr 2021)

Dara Calleary: ...communities, which already feel alienated from this process. I speak for the agricultural community, which seems to be in the firing line every time, despite what it has done over at least 20 years in terms of changing processes and ways of doing businesses and farming. If this legislation is to work, have an impact and get buy-in, we must ensure, as is laid out in that document, that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (31 Mar 2021)

Dara Calleary: 1255. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department has not yet implemented a frost reconstitution scheme for farm forests; his plans to implement a frost reconstitution scheme; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16427/21]