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

Charlie McConalogue: This is another example of Deputy Murphy looking to portray somehow that there is a big industrial ethos and personality to our agricultural sector whereas the opposite is the truth. We have family farms across this country working in a co-op structure, thankfully, in the dairy sector. Under this structure, as much of the return as possible is returned to the family farms and the dairy...

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

Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): I confirm that 867 applications have been received with 33 in the first two tranches and it is increasing all the time. I do not have the figure for rejections. I can find that and get it to the Deputy. This is a generous scheme which supports women in farming. The eligibility criteria are...

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

Claire Kerrane: It will be important to see how many, if any, of the 867 applications made have been refused for whatever reason to allow us to understand if there is an issue there. If a stakeholder group of women farmers set up to represent women farmers is raising an issue of access to this scheme, it would be worthy of consideration by the Minister of State. Perhaps when this fourth tranche closes, she...

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

Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): We will engage with the stakeholders group on its concerns, as we would have done up to now. I imagine that the small number of women farmers who do not meet the criteria under this TAM scheme may apply for any of the other TAM schemes. There is grant aid of between 40% and 60% there,...

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

Common Agricultural Policy

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"....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I will take the Deputy’s second point first. He talks a lot of hot air. He has no policy and no proposals. When he mentions young Muireann Kavanagh and the issue of the hook and line pollock fishery, the Deputy does not understand what he is talking about in terms of the wider policy environment. I have engaged with that young fisher lady - it is great to see her passion for it -...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Young Muireann Kavanagh has shown the Minister up for what he is. He is the person with hot air. He should tell the truth to the Dáil now. 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...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)

Seán Canney: Thank you, Deputy.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The SFPA had no problem going to Magheraroarty in the early hours of the morning on a Sunday on three occasions to board that vessel. When that vessel wants to bring product and land it in Magheraroarty, the Minister for fisheries tells us that the SFPA does not have the resources to make the journey to Magheraroarty. That is hot air.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)

Seán Canney: Thank you Deputy. Minister -----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I appeal to the Minister, on behalf of fishermen in my community, to take out his pen and sign the document to reclassify Magheraroarty as a designated pier that will support that community and vessel and could also support other jobs in that community as well.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I always tell the truth. Deputy Doherty is not telling the truth about the response I gave young Muireann Kavanagh. I wrote her a handwritten letter -----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: After she went on radio.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: No, before that. Again, the Deputy is not telling the truth here. He might like to portray it otherwise, but he is not telling the truth. I wrote her a handwritten note explaining the situation. Unfortunately, on that issue, as on many other issues on fisheries, Deputy Doherty and his party are an empty vessel.