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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister has created many an empty vessel.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: Deputy Doherty has come forward with nothing of substance. All he tries to do is exploit the situation and make it sound like he has something to offer when he has nothing to offer. I have seen no proposal from the Deputy on the hook and line fishery for pollock. He has done nothing other than try to exploit the situation. That is the reality we see from him on many issues. I explained...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I think it is important that the Minister does not mislead the Dáil. Muireann Kavanagh wrote to the Minister in December.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy is an empty vessel. He is a bluffer.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Do not try to spin a lie. She is a 14-year-old girl. She wrote to the Minister a second time. When the parents were going on radio, the Minister sent a handwritten note to her at that point in time. Do not try to mislead the Dáil. This is a young person who is standing up not only for her own rights but for fishing rights across the community. She is currently in Strasbourg because...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy has nothing to offer but hot air. He is an empty vessel.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)
Seán Canney: The Deputy is out of order.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024)
Agriculture Schemes
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024)
Claire Kerrane: 63. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the women farmers' capital investment scheme under TAMS III; if there has been, or will be, a review of eligibility criteria for the scheme, given concerns raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18242/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024)
Claire Kerrane: My question is on the capital investment scheme for women farmers under TAMS. Will the Minister of State give an update on the number of applications approved to date. Given the issues that have been raised about locking out women farmers from accessing the scheme in the first place, will she review the eligibility criteria?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024)
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): The women farmers capital investment scheme is one of ten measures in the targeted agriculture modernisation scheme, TAMS 3, which provides grants to farmers to build and-or improve a specified range of farm buildings and equipment on their holdings. The women farmers scheme opened for...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024)
Claire Kerrane: Will the Minister of State confirm the figures, namely that 867 applications were received and that 333 of those were approved? Can she advise if any have been refused? She will be well aware that the women in agriculture stakeholder group has raised concerns about the eligibility criteria. Last summer, when it was introduced, it flagged its fear that it would lock some women out of...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Richard Bruton: First, I welcome what the Minister of State has said, but so long as there is no clear picture of what a revenue stream from sound environmental farming will mean in ten or 20 years' time, this uncertainty and unease will continue. We know, for example, that raising water levels on certain lands has huge carbon dividends. We know that benchmarking and reducing emissions by sequestration or...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): I thank the Deputy and agree with him. We have a sense of what we know we should be doing. On the data piece, I agree that we could wait forever for exact data, and it is continually evolving anyway in some regards. Even recently, data from Teagasc last year showed that we have overestimated...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Richard Bruton: Is it not the case that if we are to see a significant scaling-up of activity, and I think that is necessary, there are going to have to be substantial rewards linked to them? Surely, on a no-regrets basis, we should be making those substantial rewards available so that a step change can be considered by people who want a long-term commercial and prosperous family future. We need to take a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): One of the challenges is being able to measure it and being able to reward farmers appropriately for their actions, and what actions they might take on their own land. As I said, we are supporting farmers in different ways through different schemes to manage their lands in different ways....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)
Harbours and Piers
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 62. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Government has considered the reclassification of Magheraroarty pier in County Donegal as a pier for landing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18300/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I know we have done this through parliamentary questions, and so has my colleague Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, but I want to ask the Minister about the designation and reclassification of Magheraroarty pier in County Donegal as a landing port for UK-registered vessels, similar to other piers and harbours in the county. This is something that would be transformative for the area and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: As the Deputy knows, last year I designated three new ports in County Donegal - Bunagee, Glengad and Malin Head - as well as Dunmore East in County Waterford for landings from UK-registered Northern Ireland vessels. I also extended the opening hours in Greencastle. That brings the total number of ports designated for UK-registered Northern Ireland vessels to 11, seven of which are located...