Written answers

Wednesday, 10 February 2021

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

 
  • Agriculture Scheme Eligibility
    977. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the arrangements in place to ensure there are an adequate supply of accredited green certificate in agriculture courses available for...
  • Covid-19 Tests
    978. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce antigen testing for employees of key manufacturing plants such as food and meat processing; and if he will...
  • Licence Applications
    979. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a licence application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6372/21]
  • Protected Disclosures
    980. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he and or his predecessors evaluated a protected disclosure made by a person (details supplied) as instructed to by the Workplace...
  • EU Regulations
    981. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the European Commission for Health and Food Safety has accepted a formal complaint from a whistle-blower (details supplied) to...
  • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
    982. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6403/21]
  • Fishing Industry
    983. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there will be a derogation for scallop fishermen who are fishing off the southern coast of the UK; and if he will make a statement...
  • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
    984. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay of almost 20 years in acknowledging the error by his Department in not including two reference years...
  • Horse Racing Ireland
    985. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the manner in which the appointments to the Horse Racing Ireland board from 1 January 2020 to date were nominated; the basis for...
  • Greyhound Industry
    986. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a fundraiser by an organisation (details supplied) in respect of the retired coursing greyhounds...
  • Forestry Sector
    987. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he address a matter (details supplied) regarding forestry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6542/21]
  • Food Safety Standards
    988. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the 30-month rule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6543/21]
  • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme
    991. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2019 and 2020 area of natural constraints payment will issue to a farmer (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    992. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department has not submitted a notification to the European Commission under the State aid Temporary Framework for...
  • Departmental Reviews
    993. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress his Department has made in implementing the recommendations of the Independent Aquaculture Licensing Review Group from...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    994. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will amend the Covid-19 aquaculture support scheme to include those recent entrants to the industry with sales on their books...
  • Departmental Staff
    995. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of staff by grade from his Department that have been deployed to Dublin Port, Rosslare Port and Dublin Airport to deal...
  • Fishery Harbour Centres
    996. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of revenue generated activities in each of the fishery harbour centres under the remit of his Department in 2019 and...
  • Licence Applications
    997. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a forestry licence application for a person (details supplied) will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Agriculture Scheme Eligibility
    998. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an exception can be made for a person (details supplied) in relation to a green certificate; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Dairy Sector
    999. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown in volume and value in 2020 of dairy ingredients exports to South Africa; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Wildlife Control
    1000. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6698/21]
  • Licence Applications
    1001. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the total number of licences, including felling, afforestation and roads which are required by the forestry and timber...
  • Forestry Sector
    1003. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has given or will give consideration to the issue of wholescale regulatory reform in view of the current crisis...
  • Animal Sales
    1004. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if advice will be provided regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6788/21]
  • Teagasc Activities
    1005. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he plans to take to improve the take up of Teagasc research services by farmers as referred to in the recent AGRIP report;...
  • Agriculture Schemes
    1006. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will abolish or delay the requirement to reduce stocking rates under the BEAM scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Felling Licences
    1008. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the backlog in the issuing of felling licences will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6804/21]
  • GLAS Issues
    1009. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when GLAS payments will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [6870/21]
  • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
    1010. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Cork in respect of the beef finisher payment. [6874/21]
  • Aquaculture Licences
    1011. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received an aquaculture licence application (details supplied); the status of the application; and if he will make a...
  • Departmental Schemes
    1012. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the financial support and incentives there will be to encourage farmers to pilot calf-at-foot strategies; the agency which will be...
  • EU Directives
    1013. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures his Department has taken to implement and uphold the EU Pigs Directive Council Directive 2008/120/EC; if there are...
  • Greyhound Industry
    1014. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if only greyhounds presented for racing, that is, greyhounds which have at least one race record in Ireland will be tracked by the...
  • Organic Farming Scheme
    1017. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports being offered to assist applicants to the organic farming scheme given the high rates of refused admissions in the 2018...
  • Veterinary Laboratories
    1019. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of substances such as agricultural animal remedies and growth hormones stored and disposed of through...
  • Coillte Teoranta
    1020. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to protect Roughfield Wood, Mounnadowna Wood and Dreenagh Wood, County Cork, given plans by Coillte to sell parts of these...
  • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
    1021. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of instances since January 2015 to date in which his Department has set aside the findings of the director of the...
  • Fur Farming
    1022. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department issued a direction to mink farms that a cull was to be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Farm Inspections
    1024. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farm inspections carried out by month and county in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will...
  • Horticulture Sector
    1025. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports available for mushroom growers and the nursery sector who will be affected by the end of horticultural peat harvesting....
  • Common Agricultural Policy
    1026. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of recipients who received CAP Pillar 1 payments of €60,000 or higher in 2020, by county in tabular form; and if...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    1028. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if urgent supports and measures will be provided as a response to the financial implications for the national hunt horse racing...
  • Forestry Sector
    1029. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if tree felling for the purpose of clearing a site for non-essential construction is or is not deemed to be forestry; and his views...
  • Beef Imports
    1030. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure consumers use less imported beef products and greater amounts grown locally especially during the recent crisis...
  • Fishing Industry
    1031. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, with the voisinage agreement in place to allow fishing vessels from Northern Ireland to operate in Ireland's waters, there is a...
  • Flood Relief Schemes
    1032. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if provisions are being made to issue emergency funding to farmers in 2021 who have been hit by flooding issues. [7281/21]
  • Forestry Sector
    1033. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 949 of 3 February 2021, the financial cost for the person to withdraw from the scheme (details...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    1034. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if construction in the interests of animal welfare or the essential operation of a farm are permissible under the current level 5...
  • Departmental Equipment
    1035. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current applications of alcohol-based hand sanitiser to the pesticide control division for biocidal product registration...
  • Common Agricultural Policy
    1036. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposals he has made to the EU regarding Common Agricultural Policy negotiations to ensure that the next round of funding will...
  • Animal Breeding Regulations
    1037. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he plans to take to regulate the breeding, ownership, sale or supply of exotic species; when he plans to introduce...
  • Animal Welfare
    1038. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the additional urban horse welfare programmes he will introduce in 2021 as per the Programme for Government; and if he will make a...

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