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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (3 Jul 2025)
Mattie McGrath: I am taking this question on behalf of an Teachta Barry Heneghan.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (3 Jul 2025)
Martin Heydon: The CAP Strategic Plan 2023–2027 aims to improve the economic, social and environmental sustainability of Ireland's agrifood sector. It does this by supporting viable farm incomes and enhancing competitiveness by strengthening the socioeconomic fabric of rural areas and contributing to the achievement of environmental and climate objectives at national and EU levels. The CAP...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (3 Jul 2025)
Mattie McGrath: This policy has been a linchpin and a source of very important funding streams and supports for farmers for decades now. However, there comes a time when things need to be tweaked. That is why Deputy Heneghan asked for the geographical breakdown. We in Tipperary and other parts of the country have seen the conglomerates who get phenomenal payments under this scheme. There should be more...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (3 Jul 2025)
Martin Heydon: I am happy to provide the Deputy with the table in written form as result of this question. It lists the total expenditure per county for all CSP schemes, the number of beneficiaries and the average per beneficiary. It is quite even. The Deputy's county, Tipperary, saw total expenditure under all CSP schemes of €112,091,305 to 6,652 beneficiaries. The average per beneficiary...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Diseases (3 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: I do not think anyone is underestimating or minimising the absolute devastation when a farmer realises they have TB in their herd. As the Minister says, it is not just a financial but also an emotional shock and trauma for the family. The most important thing to do is put in place a system that is going to work for them. The Minister talks about being led by science. I cannot see any...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Diseases (3 Jul 2025)
Martin Heydon: If a badger is examined and tested and is found to have TB, then for its own sake it needs to be culled as well as to stop the spread of the disease to other badgers, bovines and others within the community. Vaccination has a role to play but the vaccination process we have used to date has not worked to the same extent. I will be very clear. There are three causes of the spread of this...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Diseases (3 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: I would be really keen if the Minister could send me the studies and evidence that show transmission of TB from badgers to cattle and the incidence. If a badger has TB that is not a good thing for the badger, but the Department culled nearly 7,500 badgers last year and 20% of them had TB. The culling involves snares which not only is an incredibly inhumane way for an animal to die but it is...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Diseases (3 Jul 2025)
Martin Heydon: A series of my proposals would be around changing how we deal with the current vaccination approach. The current approach has been vaccinating without testing the animal. We can now test a badger and have a result within about ten minutes. There are challenges to that on the bovine side. Where an animal tests positive, for its own sake and the sake of everyone else in the sett and the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Solar Energy Guidelines (3 Jul 2025)
Solar Energy Guidelines
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Solar Energy Guidelines (3 Jul 2025)
James O'Connor: 83. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is engaging with the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment regarding the use of good agricultural land for solar farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36654/25]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Solar Energy Guidelines (3 Jul 2025)
Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am taking this question in the name of Deputy James O'Connor.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Solar Energy Guidelines (3 Jul 2025)
Martin Heydon: I thank Deputy O'Sullivan for raising this point on behalf of Deputy O'Connor. Deputy O'Connor has spoken directly to me on this point previously regarding his concerns in Cork. The programme for Government has committed to introduce planning guidelines for solar farms and to provide certainty in the development of solar energy. Issues regarding planning fall under the remit of the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Solar Energy Guidelines (3 Jul 2025)
Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister. I am aware of the scheme he outlined and the number of farmers who have availed of it. It is a very good scheme. The designation of land, land use policy and so on is really a matter for the Minister for local government, but one of the reasons Deputy O'Connor raised this matter with the Minister for agriculture is its potential impact on farming, particularly the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fishing Industry (3 Jul 2025)
Timmy Dooley: I recognise that. When I was before the committee chaired by Deputy McGuinness recently, I informed it that I have asked an outside interlocutor to work with the sector generally. Mr. Kieran Mulvey has accepted the role of working with all stakeholders in the sector to identify areas where we can assist and develop a way forward or pathway as part of a strategy that the Department will...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (3 Jul 2025)
Agriculture Industry
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (3 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: 81. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the Agri-Food Regulator will be granted additional powers of compellability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36023/25]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (3 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: The establishment of the Agri-Food Regulator was a very welcome move but the body clearly does not have sufficient teeth. The regulators themselves have requested additional powers. When will the body be granted additional powers of compellability and could the Minister make a statement on the matter?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (3 Jul 2025)
Martin Heydon: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. As she will be aware, the independent Agri-Food Regulator, established under the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Act 2023, performs two key functions: it enforces the law on unfair trading practices, and it performs a price and market analysis and reporting function. The regulator has, since its establishment at the end of 2023, been...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (3 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister. It is welcome that he is in the process of granting or providing the powers but we need to see a timeline. It has been quite a while since the regulators themselves raised the gaps in their powers and it is important that we see movement on this, particularly given how grocery prices are increasing at present. Members of the public need transparency when purchasing...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (3 Jul 2025)
Martin Heydon: I want to do this as quickly as possible while also being respectful of a process that involves consultation, engagement with all sides and me listening to the concerns of the industry. The industry has concerns over how the information could be distorted by competitors abroad. The regulation applies only to our domestic market and we export 90% of the food and drink that we produce. These...