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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: It is interesting there is such a disparity between the numbers the Minister has quoted, which are correct according to the census, and the number of people who are declaring as farmers. Fewer people are declaring as farmers because they must have another occupation when they cannot make enough money from their farms. In the census, they declare they are not farmers but are something else....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: I do not agree at all with the Deputy's portrayal of the situation. The Government massively supports the family farm structure and family farmers. Over the past generation, we have seen a growing number of part-time farms. Farms may not be able to compete with the employment opportunities in the wider economy now, but the fact those family farmers stay farming is a reflection of the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: The Minister's answer is, to an extent, an admission that farming, in comparison with other income streams, is falling. He said that because the income in farming is now 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...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: As the Deputy knows, we are the first Government ever to set up an agrifood regulator to ensure fair play for farmers in the marketplace. This is the first Government do to have done that. It was a commitment I made to farmers and we have delivered. I do not think the Deputy understands the farming sector very well. The key piece of legislation of Aontú-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: The Minister supported that legislation when he was in opposition.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: -----is intended to set a price and allow for intervention. We export 90% of our food but the Deputy feels it is simply a matter of passing legislation to set what that price should be and all will be well with the world. That is the sort of fairytale he peddles. I grew up on a family farm, the income from which was our sole income. We milked our own cow every morning and grew our own...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: May I come back at that? That is a shocking thing to say.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: It is not.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Seán Canney: The Deputy can take up the matter with Minister.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Question No. 60 taken with Written Answers
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Agriculture Industry
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: 59. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farms in Ireland in each of the past ten years. [17665/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: In 2011, 73,000 people declared their occupation to be farmers. In 2016, this had fallen to approximately 69,000 people who declared their occupation to be farmers. In the 2022 census, this had fallen again to 61,000 people who declared their occupation to be farmers. This is an 11% decrease and an acceleration in the number of people who are no longer self-identifying as a farmer because...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: My Department monitors the information on farms and the wider agrifood sector. We do that in collaboration with Teagasc and the Central Statistics Office, and that is ongoing at all times. The number of farms in Ireland is recorded every ten years in the CSO census of agriculture, most recently in 2010 and 2020. In addition, the CSO undertakes farm structure surveys periodically between...