Patricia Ryan (Kildare South, Sinn Fein)
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1774. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on recent progress with the Food Vision strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63718/22]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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Food Vision 2030 has four main missions, made up of 22 goals and 218 actions, to enable Ireland to become a “World Leader in Sustainable Food Systems”. Its success depends on effective implementation and oversight. A formal implementation plan for Food Vision 2030 was published in May 2022 and this identifies stakeholders, deliverables and a timeframe for each of the actions.

Implementation of Food Vision is well underway: three actions are fully complete; 64 have had substantial action undertaken; 145 have commenced and are progressing; and only six actions have not yet commenced. The first Food Vision Annual Report detailing this progress is expected to be published in Q1 2023.

This process is overseen by a High-Level Implementation Committee, which I chair, and its fifth meeting was held on the 30^thof November 2022.

One of the immediate priorities identified by the Committee in the context of climate was to commence work on the important actions to determine the sustainable environmental footprint of the dairy and beef sectors.  The Food Vision Dairy Group was established in January 2022 and its final report, containing measures on how to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from the dairy sector, was submitted to me and published on 25^thOctober 2022. Similarly, the Food Vision Beef and Sheep Group was established in June 2022 and its final report was submitted to me and published on the 30^thof November 2022.

Other notable progress includes the publication of the Seafood Sector Taskforce report, the incorporation of 26 actions for agriculture in the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan 2021-2025 and the leading role played by Ireland at the UN Food Systems Summit in 2021.