Conor McGuinness (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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620. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will support the establishment of a new EIP or pilot project to support sustainable grazing, biodiversity and wildfire prevention in the Comeragh Mountains. [35818/25]

Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy may be aware, European Innovation Partnership (EIP) projects involve the establishment of Operational Groups to work together, to share their ideas and to turn existing knowledge and research into innovative solutions which can then be upscaled and inform future Departmental policy decisions.

To date 22 EIP projects have been approved for implementation under the current CSP period, 2023 to 2027. These include the flagship Farming for Water EIP and the Breeding Waders EIP.

I, together with my colleague Minister O’Sullivan, recently announced an open EIP call seeking project proposals to support nature in an arable environment along the coast from South Cork to Wexford.

There are no plans to open any further EIP calls under the current CAP Strategic Plan.