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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department acts as a Paying Agency for a number of EU funds; the vast majority of these funds are programmed in multi annual cycles such as the CAP Strategic Plan and the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) Programme. The CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027 has a budget of €9.8 billion, with €5.97 billion in Pillar 1 for Direct Payments coming from the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I have long supported the cohort of farmers known as the forgotten farmers and have committed to supporting them. My Department developed a preliminary outline of a proposal to provide support to the forgotten farmer group. Work continues on addressing a number of issues, such as the funding required, consistency with public expenditure and state aid considerations before the details...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Question Heading for question(s) 252 (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Last October my Department requested Teagasc to undertake research and provide data regarding bovine nutrient excretion rates. This included consideration of the excretion rate as the young bovine animal grows and consideration of the impact reducing crude protein in concentrates fed to dairy cows will have on the cow's nutrient excretion rate. Teagasc presented their work to the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Afforestation applications received by my Department are reviewed for completeness to ensure they are a valid application which can be progressed to licence decision stage. The licensing process involves careful assessment of applications from a silvicultural, environmental and scheme compliance perspective. Statistics of all licences issued are published weekly on my Departments...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (28 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: On 23 November, my Department advised the farmer in question that a Porcine number does not meet the definition of a herd number, therefore we are unable to link a porcine number to a BISS application. In submitting a BISS 2023 application you declare you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions of the Basic Income Support for Sustainability Scheme. As per the Terms and Conditions to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (28 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Rásaíocht Con Éireann (RCÉ) is a commercial state body, established under the Greyhound Industry Act, 1958 chiefly to control greyhound racing and to improve and develop the greyhound industry. RCÉ is a body corporate and a separate legal entity to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. In 2018, conditional consent was granted for redevelopment works...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Turf Cutting (28 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The objective of the €1.5 billion ACRES scheme is to improve environmental performance on farmland, including commonage. In this context, my Department is obliged to ensure that the scheme meets its objectives, but also to ensure that applicants are treated fairly when it comes to scoring of environmental performance. The original proposal in relation to the scoring of turbary...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (28 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The table below provides data, extracted from the AIM system, on the breakdown by county of herds with dairy cows and herds with suckler cows. A suckler cow is defined for this purpose as a female bovine who is named as the dam of at least one registered calf and is of a recognised beef breed. County Number of Herds with dairy cows Number of Herds with suckler...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (28 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: An application for participation in the 2023 Basic Income Support for Sustainability Scheme (BISS), Complementary Redistributive Support for Sustainability (CRISS), Areas of Natural Constraints (ANC) and ECO schemes was received from the above named applicant on the 4th April, 2023. Following a review of parcels by Satellite Imagery parcels within this application were identified as...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (28 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: In respect of the animals removed from the named herd under the On Farm Market Valuation Scheme, all animals received their full market value, taking into account both the factory salvage recovered and compensation paid on each animal by my Department. As the herd lost more than 10% of its animals the named herdowner also qualified for payment under the Income Supplement Scheme. The herd...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: A review decision letter recently issued to the named individual in response to his request for a review of my Department's decision to reject his holding from the Nitrates Derogation and the financial penalty this resulted in. Holdings rejected from the Nitrates Derogation are subject to the normal stocking rate limit of 170 kg livestock manure nitrogen per hectare for the year in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department use several sources of data to safeguard protected bird species, in carrying out its functions in deciding on afforestation licence applications. The following table details the sources used to generate the new bird related layers on iFORIS. - Layer Source 1 Hen Harrier Red Areas (HLNAs) layer (Layer not available on iNET,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Emissions for agriculture and all land types depend on a wide variety of factors. Some lands such as grasslands on mineral soils remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere compared to grasslands on peat soils. The types of animals grazing lands will also contribute to the overall emission profile for each farm enterprise which can be significantly different. My Department when...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Forests play a significant role in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and play an important role in storing carbon in harvested wood products. Assessing a sites suitability for afforestation must take into consideration the loss of carbon from soils, the amount that will be offset by the removals from the growing trees and other environmental considerations. The table below...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Forestry Programme 2023-2027 contains a new Native Tree Area Scheme, which allows for the creation of forests of up to 1 hectare without an afforestation licence, subject to the terms and conditions of the scheme. Within the scheme, two different interventions are available to applicants. NTA 1 supports the establishment of new native forests on farmed land, thereby contributing to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: A procurement process took place in 2021 for the provision of new or existing social farming model projects. Four projects were successful following the tendering process and were awarded contracts with possible extensions. Leitrim Integrated Development Company CLG – to model and progress full commissioning and mainstreaming of Social Farming supports across a range of sectors and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: In September 2022, my Department published indicative Space for Nature estimates using satellite imagery for all farmers. Farmers and their FAS Advisors then had the opportunity to review those estimates before the opening of the BISS and Eco-scheme online application system in February 2023. Where a farmer decided to apply for Eco-schemes under Agricultural Practice 1 (Space for Nature),...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The revised estimate for my department for 2024 provides €200 million for ACRES payments. The final spending requirement will be determined by the number of contracts that clear payment validations later in the year.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The first payments to ACRES participants issued in December 2023. Just over 17,100 participants in Ireland’s flagship agri-environment scheme were paid an average of €4,460. These payments were made to those in the ACRES General stream. In 2024, over 2,500 additional ACRES general participants were paid an average of €4,610. The Deputy will be aware of my recent...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 375 to 377, inclusive, together. A total of 15,897 hectares of grant aided ash forests were planted from 1990. The National Inventory for 2022 shows the total area of hedgerow as 267,509 hectares. There is no species breakdown of the hedgerow area so it is not possible to provide figures for ash planted outside of the forestry programmes either in hedgerows...

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