Written answers

Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

 
  • Departmental Funding
    542. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are plans to release funding to landowners and local authorities to enable potentially dangerous trees to be made safe and...
  • Departmental Projects
    543. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expected timeframe for completed works on Spike Bridge, Courtown Woods, County Wexford; the cost of these works; and if he will...
  • Departmental Data
    544. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons convicted of a €5,000 penalty under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023,...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    551. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he is taking to address the delays in processing ACRES payments; the number of applications to ACRES from County Offaly...
  • Departmental Functions
    552. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason no clean up after storm Éowyn has commenced in Killinthomas Woods, Rathangan; the timescale for when this will happen...
  • Departmental Policies
    554. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a horse must be tagged; if not, the options that are available to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Regulations
    555. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is an offence to leave the body of a horse on open land. [9104/25]
  • Departmental Data
    557. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses seized in Cork in 2024. [9106/25]
  • Departmental Investigations
    558. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the mistreatment of horses in Glanmire, Cork (details supplied); the steps he is taking to ensure...
  • Departmental Programmes
    559. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine the ACRES landscape actions delays and the reason farmers that would have wished to pursue same are adversely...
  • Departmental Schemes
    560. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average time to get claims open on the agfood TAMS system from the time an email is sent to his Department; and if he will make a...
  • Departmental Funding
    561. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the criteria for selection for preapproval, payment claim and supervisory inspections for TAMS grants; and if he will make a...
  • Departmental Staff
    563. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE staff, by job title from his Department that are based at Shannon Airport as of 20 February 2025; and if he will...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    564. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2024 ACRES payment will issue for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on...
  • EU Funding
    565. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to avail of assistance from the EU solidarity fund following the damage caused to his forestry after the recent storm...
  • Departmental Funding
    566. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any assistance will be offered to farmers who had buildings damaged during storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Departmental Schemes
    568. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on plans to provide a forgotten farmers' scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9416/25]
  • Legislative Measures
    569. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to consider introducing a derogation on tree felling and hedge cutting in certain areas starting this March, ensuring that all...
  • Departmental Schemes
    570. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to review the TB eradication scheme compensation amounts (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9469/25]
  • European Union
    572. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the points in the European Commission’s vision for agriculture and food that he is seeking clarification on; and if he will...
  • Departmental Regulations
    573. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reverse his decision to apply GAEC2 (good agricultural and environmental conditions) rules in 2025 until he has engaged...
  • Departmental Data
    574. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of TB reactor cattle on Irish farms from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024, by county; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Departmental Schemes
    577. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there is such a backlog in dealing with foresters’ native tree area scheme applications in light of their exemption...
  • Pesticide Use
    578. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether any exemptions on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides were issued in 2024; what measures the Department are taking to ensure...
  • Departmental Data
    579. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of each bonus payment to employees of Greyhound Racing Ireland and Horse Racing Ireland in 2024. [9602/25]
  • Departmental Schemes
    581. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to amend the 2025 scheme of investment aid for commercial horticulture sector to remove the minimum spend requirement so that all...
  • Agriculture Schemes
    583. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when ACRES-Cooperation payments will be issued to persons (details supplied) for 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Agriculture Supports
    585. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine following the establishment of the Forest Windblow Taskforce, if the provision of financial supports to affected landowners is under...
  • Departmental Regulations
    587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is an alternative route available for individuals who have been deemed ineligible to complete the green certificate due to...
  • Agriculture Schemes
    590. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) is not receiving the full entitlements of the ACRES scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Departmental Staff
    591. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his Department plans to re-open recruitment and establish a new agricultural officer technical panel; and if he will make a...

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