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Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...That was a really important starting point that we found ourselves operating from, particularly in view of the exceptionally and unprecedentedly long winter that lasted from September up to now. Farmers did a great deal of hard work last year in terms of making sure that fodder stocks were strong. They were supported in this by the fodder scheme that the Government put in place to pay to...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I welcome the opportunity to speak up for farmers in County Clare. I wish to show the House a document that we recently received from the IFA in Clare, entitled “Enough is Enough”. Farmers have felt completely disregarded by the Government in terms of not receiving enough support and respect for the work they do, what that work provides to their local communities and the...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...next winter. This is a problem across the country. We need to recognise that if we do not intervene early, the situation coming down the road will get worse. The general problems in the farming sector date back a long time. Farmers are despondent and disappointed. They find applying for and dealing with many of these schemes difficult. I will cite an example. TAMS 3 has been...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

John McGuinness: The farmers I come across in my constituency are dealing with serious issues of finance on their farms and need all the support they can get. They are facing all sorts of challenges, some relating to climate change and others relating to the sheer administration of their enterprise. The weather has not helped and is not helping them, and while it is quite different now and it is good to see...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: I am sharing time. I find myself, as is often if not always the case, in agreement with what Deputy McGuinness said but I acknowledge that farm inspections, for example, have been eased in the circumstances, which has come as some small relief to farmers given the pressure they were under. In the brief time available, I will discuss the fodder transport scheme. While it is well...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Marian Harkin: Today we are discussing weather-related supports for farmers. Many farmers in the north west are paying a very heavy price, both in income lost and, indeed, in the context of their own well-being and mental health, as they grapple to keep going with the poor weather that has dogged the west and the north west since August of last year. It is not just about keeping going; it is about seeing...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: ...for seven minutes. If someone sneaks up behind me, the Leas-Cheann Comhairle can alert me and I will stop talking. I share many of the concerns that other Deputies have articulated today. I farm. I have 26 sucklers, short-horn Herefords and around me are farmers. My father and older members of my family recall a time when our village had 25 or 30 farmers. It is now down to five or...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Carol Nolan: I am sure the Minister is aware of the correspondence we all received yesterday from the Association of Farm and Forestry Contractors in Ireland, FCI. It outlined that the knock-on impact of the recent weather is that less than one third of the normal spring work has been completed. Against this background, the FCI is requesting that the Minister postpone the planned introduction of the...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...be as simple as a TAMS grant or an ACRES or BISS payment. It could be any one of a variety of schemes. The farmers are being told there is a glitch in the system and their money is held up. Farming works on a tight budget and a tight margin. We need the money coming in so that people can pay it out. Could we ensure that farmers could be guaranteed that if their applications are in, it...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...is setting the potatoes today. We will have potatoes for Christmas dinner. We will not be eating lettuce or something like that. I plead with the Minister to cut out the red tape and cut out the baggage. Farmers are being strangled. I support what Deputy Nolan said about the farm contractors. The FCI is an organisation which I helped found. They need a break. Stop removing the...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Frank Feighan: ...State for the work they are doing. We have dealt with many evolving issues in the past four years since they took office and I thank them for sitting down and listening, not only to me but to the farmers in my constituency. I appreciate that. I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on behalf of the farmers I represent and to highlight the unique challenges that many of them have to...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: We all know the situation because we have all dealt with farmers across our constituencies. They have spoken to us about the difficulties they have had to deal with lately. To some extent we knew from January that we were going to have a fodder shortage and that particular issues would need to be addressed. I cannot let this moment go without bringing up again the serious floods in...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Like all the other speakers I have farmers coming into my office from Borris, Bagenalstown, Tullow, Hacketstown, Rathvilly and Carlow itself - I have covered them all - and they are telling me they did not get to sow winter corn. They talk about bringing back seed because they did not get to sow. It has become a huge issue this year. Potato farmers are constantly on to me about how poor...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Michael Lowry: This year will go down in living memory as the year that brought farmers across the country to their knees. Incessant rain has caused devastation across every county, leaving farmers and their families reeling in its wake. We have an estimated 6.9 million ha of land overall in Ireland and 64% of this land is suitable for agriculture. However, the Irish agricultural sector overall has...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...the Ceann Comhairle’s remarks regarding Deputy Paul Murphy's contribution. I am not sure where in the country - never mind what part of the planet - what the Deputy had to say related to. Farming is heading fast to a crossroads and that intersection includes farm unviability, farm loss, future consolidated factory farming and economic loss to regional and rural communities. My...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Farming as we know it is being significantly run down by the Government. I believe farming has been made the fall guy of climate change. This is bizarre and absolutely false. It is incredible that we live in a country where the level of air travel and the number of data centres are still increasing, yet the finger is being pointed by the Government and the political establishment at...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...the lack of vision for the future of Irish agriculture. The Minister updated us on some of the immediate supports that have been put in place - weather supports that are desperately needed by our farming families. I know any supports during the current climate will be very much welcomed and I am sure no farmer in the State would not argue that we need to go further in terms of immediate...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Michael Moynihan: ..., if ever, have I commented on any contributions by any other Member of the House in my time here, but I must take a deep intake of breath after the previous speaker's comments. I am a small farmer. I was a dairy farmer, and I come from a farming heartland. We would like to think that we are small to medium-size farmers within our community. To equate the farmers who have worked...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: I welcome financial supports for small farmers during this bad weather. Unfortunately for them and society in general, the weather will keep getting worse and farming will become more and more difficult due to climate change. Yesterday at the climate committee, we heard presentations from the authors of Ireland's climate change assessment, an official Government report. They told us...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: Ongoing bad weather has created huge problems for farmers this spring, with fields too wet for planting or taking livestock. Many farmers face fodder shortages because animals have been in sheds for too long. They cannot access grass in the fields because of wet ground conditions. Tillage farmers cannot get onto their land to plant their crops. My neighbours' fields are still empty....