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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: Deputy Murphy likes to portray that. He peddles the story that somehow Irish agriculture is industrial and not the family farm as we portray it. That is totally false.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Paul Murphy: The biggest part of it.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: The reality has been-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Paul Murphy: Most of it is not.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: If the Deputy had been paying any attention to what I have been doing as Minister over the past five years-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Paul Murphy: I have.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: -----he would have seen I have delivered a CAP programme which has increased by 50% the funding we are giving to farms, and we are directing that particularly at smaller and medium-sized farms. For example, I have introduced front-loading of the payments that farmers get in respect of the first 32 ha. We are reallocating funding specifically to smaller and medium-sized farmers to encourage...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Paul Murphy: 64. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is concerned about negative environmental impacts from the CAP simplification process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18332/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Paul Murphy: A range of farmers and environmental groups have raised serious criticisms about negative environmental impacts and negative impacts for farmers from the so-called CAP simplification which the European Parliament voted for yesterday. They say that it will increase farmers vulnerability to extreme weather events, that it guts environmental standards and that it is a race to the bottom. MEPs,...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: The proposed amending regulation presented by the Commission is focused on simplification to reduce the burden on farmers and to provide flexibility to member states to address issues affecting farmers arising from climatic conditions or other adverse weather events. While there are changes to the good agricultural and environmental conditions, GAECs, my Department, like all ministries...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Paul Murphy: I presume the Minister knows and agrees that we are in a climate and biodiversity crisis and yet the European Commission with the support of the Irish Government and the support of the three big parties in this Dáil has just agreed to delete, weaken or make voluntary several of the GAECs. The Minister listed some of them. They include minimising tillage to prevent soil erosion,...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy does not seem to recognise the great work happening in farms here in Ireland. He should give proper recognition to the real commitment that family farms across this country are demonstrating to the environment and indeed to tackling the biodiversity challenge that we have, not just in this country but also in many other countries as well. In 2022 there was a reduction in...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Paul Murphy: I give considerable credit to the work small farmers are doing - people who are struggling and are not supported by the Government. I do not give any credit to the Government, which simply does the bidding of the agribusiness lobby at the expense of the environment and at the expense of small farmers. The Minister likes to hide the reality of farming behind the phrase "family farms"....