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

Charlie McConalogue: ...1st, 2023 requires that applicants receiving payments under any CAP scheme must meet an “active farmer check”. This is to ensure the person receiving the payments is the person farming the land being claimed. The active farmer claim selected by the applicant at the time of application was "plan to purchase livestock in 2023". Where this claim is selected applicants are...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (30 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: .... Under the terms of the Scheme for 2024, eligible road projects are those that involve the construction or improvement of non-public roads which prove access: · To parcels of land, of which, two or more are owned or occupied by different persons, one of which must be engaged in agricultural activities; or · For harvesting purposes (including...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Thomas Pringle: ...up in Dublin that would be in Ireland but not part of the member states? The witnesses might not know this, but is somebody not technically in Ireland if they are getting off the plane and have not actually landed into the terminal building yet? Could they then be moved to somewhere not in Ireland although in Ireland? Is that possible? Do the witness think it will happen and is it possible?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Postal Services (25 Apr 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...required to seek the approval of the relevant Minister and the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in advance of any material acquisition or disposal of land, buildings or other material assets proposed by a State body. An Post is aware of the requirement for compliance with the code of practice. An Post has indicated that the change in business...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: ...ambitions. The problem is that there is a lack of a dedicated funding mechanism, or any funding mechanism at all, for farmers who will be required to reduce or abandon farming activity on lands governed by the law. At a domestic level, the Government stopped funding the Burren Life project and the hen harrier project in respect of farms on designated lands. The Minister was to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mick Barry: In 2024, Ireland is not the land and Dublin is not the city of 100,000 welcomes for migrants or people of colour. A racist riot shook the city last November. A migrant was killed some weeks ago for speaking his own language. What message does a decision not to even send this case for trial send------

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (25 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...in localised flooding in the Cooley Peninsula. During this time, the River Flurry and other smaller streams burst their banks and washed away field fencing and gateways. The heavy rain also caused landslides from the Cooley Mountains which deposited large rocks, gravel and debris on agricultural lands in addition to loss and damage to stored fodder and fertiliser supplies. In these...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...situation to protect our natural resources, including soil health, air and water quality, habitats and biodiversity. The changes proposed include moving the requirement to have a minimum share of land devoted to non-productive features, from GAEC 8, into eco schemes. That was one of the proposals approved. Already in Ireland we build on the basic GAEC 8 standard requirement in our eco...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Pearse Doherty: .... The only time he reached out to Muireann Kavanagh was after she went out on the media - that very morning. That is the reality. She wrote to him twice. A young 14 year old fisher woman from the island of Arranmore watches from her bedroom as the supertankers sweep up fish and the Minister prevents her from fishing with a line. He will not carry out the reassessment we want of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Richard Bruton: ...of what a revenue stream from sound environmental farming will mean in ten or 20 years' time, this uncertainty and unease will continue. We know, for example, that raising water levels on certain lands has huge carbon dividends. We know that benchmarking and reducing emissions by sequestration or altering methods can have very substantial dividends. However, the Minister of State put...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...lower than in much of the rest of the economy, people are getting out of farming. Why is income lower in farming? Why do we have a food sector that is phenomenally profitable but where the profit lands in the factory and supermarket and not in the farms? It is because the structure of the market is an oligopoly, which has been allowed to happen by the lack of competitive protections...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)

...go through, and if they do not, they will have to wait until later to do so. The reconstitution scheme needs to be engaged with because those trees need to be cleared before we can replant on that land.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024) See 8 other results from this debate

Paul McAuliffe: Has there been any discussion with, for example, the Land Development Agency, LDA, about the disposal of those properties or that land?

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

Charlie McConalogue: ...support through our CAP Strategic Plan (CSP) and a range of national taxation measures. The new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) cites generational renewal as one of its nine key objectives. Ireland’s CSP 2023-2027 provides substantial resources to achieving generational renewal and measures include: The Complementary Income Support for Young Farmers (CIS-YF), which has a...

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

Charlie McConalogue: ...which allow Ireland to determine what rewetting means in practice for Ireland. The Government is confident that the 2030 and 2040 rewetting targets, at a minimum, can be met entirely on State lands. Should the regulation pass at EU level, the Government is committed to ensuring that nature restoration provides additional income streams for landowners and brings benefits to rural...

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

Charlie McConalogue: ...disease progresses nationally roadside ash trees will become an issue of increasing importance. As a matter of law, the care and management of trees adjacent to roads is the responsibility of the landowner on whose land the roadside trees are growing. It is advisable that landowners make themselves aware of the full legal extent of their land ownership and of any obligations arising from...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Aindrias Moynihan: 81. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the area of land where forestry was planted last year; the amount expected to be planted this year; if there are specific measures in place to increase the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18353/24]

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

Aindrias Moynihan: 83. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will develop a national land use strategy to address, amongst other things, the concerning lack of land availability for afforestation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18352/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (25 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Jackie Cahill: 96. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if low-intensity farmers who import slurry onto their land could have their calculation based on the preceding year's stocking rate as this would provide clarity to low-intensity farmers as to the quantity of slurry they could import for the coming year and considering this would greatly encourage the importation of slurry onto...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Bernard Durkan: 98. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which efforts are being made to manage grasslands and tillage lands, given the sharp increase in rainfall; if consideration will be given to adequate drainage as opposed to allowing widespread flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18340/24]