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

Martin Heydon: ...few weeks I visited farms in my own county of Kildare, out west in Galway and around the south east of the country. Last Friday I stood in a farm in Gowran, County Kilkenny, which has the best of land. We stood in pools of water, such is the saturated nature of the soil. I heard and saw at first hand the difficulties farmers have getting animals back out to grass, getting spring crops...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Heydon: ...access to their workplace since September of last year. A number of suggestions have been made. Deputy Durkan and others have suggested that the ultimate solution is for the State to acquire the lands. The Deputy has requested that the OPW explore multiple routes to restore access to these privately owned lands. The OPW remains committed to acquiring additional lands that form part...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Heydon: ...representatives of the community and all the local political representatives in the area. It is important to restate the current situation. In September 2022, the OPW sought to purchase the lands adjacent to Castletown House and estate in a private sale. These lands have been in private ownership since the estate was sold by the Connolly family. As has been made clear, the OPW made...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (22 Feb 2024)

Martin Heydon: ...issue for the future of farming and agriculture. Supporting generational renewal is one of our main priorities as Ministers. It is also one of the great challenges facing farming, not just in Ireland but across the EU. Worldwide, the average age of farmers is higher than everyone would like it to be. For this reason, the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, 2023 to 2027, cites...

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Martin Heydon: .... Whether it was canvassing for Helen McEntee in the by-election to retain that seat for Fine Gael, addressing the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly at the height of good relations between Ireland and Britain, addressing trade events, Fine Gael party conferences, think-ins or making numerous contributions on Brexit and other EU referendums at a time of critical importance, he knew the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Forestry Sector (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Heydon: ...thing that can happen to a farmer. When it happens on rare occasions, it tends to be an annual crop that is gone the following year and farmers can get over it. However, to have stood in farmers' land and looked out at crops of ash that have been dying for years and are effectively dead, is soul-destroying. It affects farmers' mental health as well as financially. It has a really...

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Martin Heydon: ...elected to this House in 2011, the greatest charge against me from the Opposition benches, as a rural-based Government backbencher from 2011 to 2016, was that we were seeing the death of rural Ireland. Nobody is saying that any more. The change can be directly traced back to the establishment of the Minister's Department and the significant focus successive governments have put on...

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Martin Heydon: ...the communities in which they live. Along with my ministerial colleagues in the Department, I will continue to work across government with other member states and the Commission to ensure that Ireland's particular land and sea usages are fully recognised and accommodated in the text of the final regulation when it is agreed in the coming months. That means that first, there must be...

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Martin Heydon: ...are very different from those of many other European countries. This flexibility is very important to Ireland and it is why the Government has fought for it. The flexibility will allow State lands to contribute significantly in the first instance and this can be built on further, through voluntary and financially supported contributions from farmers and fishers who wish to do so, on a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Policy (25 May 2023)

Martin Heydon: ...that I and my ministerial colleagues have, the same points keep coming up. Farmers feel blamed when the debate about the environment comes up. As the Deputy says, farmers are custodians of the land. I want to put on the record that we as a Government have farmers' backs. We will continue to articulate the important role farmers play in food production, in feeding a population far...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Heydon: ...in the world by 2030. In the context of a growing global population, we need to produce more food to achieve that. Therefore, the question is one of how to meet the competing demands concerning land use and ensuring our food production systems produce fewer emissions while being able to produce more food to feed the growing world population. The answer is innovation. We have done this...

Irish Sheep Sector: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Martin Heydon: ..., as we all recognise the challenges faced by our sheep farmers this winter and into this spring. I have spoken previously about the significant contribution sheep farming makes to rural Ireland. There are more than 40,000 farmers involved in the sector, producing high-quality lamb which underpinned almost half a billion euro of exports in 2022. The best demonstration of the sheep...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (9 Mar 2023)

Martin Heydon: ...we have had good progress since then, allowing me to give the Deputy a positive response. The agri-climate rural environment scheme, ACRES, is the central agri-environment climate measure in Ireland’s Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023-2027. It is a flagship agri-environmental scheme that will pay farmers €1.5 billion over its lifetime. ACRES will play a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (9 Mar 2023)

Martin Heydon: ...farmers who had applied for the ANC scheme in 2021 but did not tick the box to apply for it when submitting their basic payment scheme, BPS, application in 2022, despite having declared ANC land in their application. The purpose of these calls was to confirm that the applicants had correctly indicated that they did not wish to apply for the ANC scheme in 2022 and to advise those who had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Martin Heydon: I would say on a number of farmers' lands.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Martin Heydon: That is a very specific point. The unfortunate farmer having that way leave go through their land, it would happen at a once-off point. So-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Martin Heydon: .... It will happen once. It will be applied to the farm and there will obviously have to be communication between the civil contractor and the farmer as to how much fertiliser can be spread on the land so they are within their means on that. As I have said, in terms of the overall point about this Bill, my focus is on how this will impact farmers on an annual and an ongoing basis.

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General: Financial Resolution (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Martin Heydon: ...ask why so many fatal incidents involve farmers in their 70s. It is because we have so many farmers still working in their 70s. Some years ago we introduced a series of tax reliefs that made the long-term rental of land more attractive and encouraged more plan generation and renewal. These vital tax reliefs, which should never be taken for granted, have been extended in budget 2023....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (26 May 2022)

Martin Heydon: ...publication of the European Commission's communication, Sustainable Carbon Cycles, has sent a clear signal to European member states on the need to increase the ambition and participation of our land managers in the area of carbon removals and reductions. Under the recently updated all-of-government Climate Action Plan 2021, the Government has committed to “explore the development...

Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Security: Statements (12 May 2022)

Martin Heydon: ...countries. Following Brexit some countries were not willing to fill the gap left in the overall EU budget which left CAP vulnerable to significant cuts. However, as a food producing nation, Ireland, led by then Taoiseach Deputy Varadkar, was very keen to state clearly that we were willing to ask our citizens to pay more as an overall contribution to the European project to fund the...