• Forest Fires
  1717. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will include forestry owners who's forestry was destroyed by fires at a location (details supplied) as part of the windblow...
• Ports Policy
  1718. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will progress plans for a border control inspection post at the Port of Cork to facilitate the importation of certain...
• Agriculture Supports
  1719. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on an appeal to the agriculture appeals office (details supplied); the reason for the delay in...
• Departmental Data
  1721. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of cattle sold through marts so far in 2025 that were slaughtered within 20 days of purchase, within 30 days of purchase;...
• Greyhound Industry
  1723. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 788 of 15 July 2025, the number of non-coursing greyhounds active on the Rásaíocht...
• Education and Training Provision
  1724. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if green cert courses are running in Teagasc Grange in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44626/25]
• Departmental Projects
  1726. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to examine the case for taking charge of an embankment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44654/25]
• Departmental Properties
  1728. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans in place regarding the transfer, or facilitating the transfer, of title for lands that were previously given to the...
• Departmental Schemes
  1729. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the eligibility conditions of the long established young farmers scheme by two years to include those farming on...
• Departmental Properties
  1730. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review correspondence regarding access rights (details supplied); if he will clarify any relevant matters concerning the...
• Departmental Funding
  1731. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details of the level of CAP funding received by State bodies and semi-State bodies including Teagasc and non-Governmental...
• Forestry Sector
  1732. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of landowners affected by ash dieback disease who have received compensation to date; the support available for...
• Agriculture Supports
  1733. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the single farm payment for 2025 will be issued to the representatives of a person (details supplied). [44951/25]
• Forestry Sector
  1735. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a breakdown of the Forestry Licenses issued in 2025 will the department provide a breakdown of the hectares of licenses...
• Agriculture Supports
  1736. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if overdue compensation payments will be expedited for a person (details supplied) for the loss of livestock due to TB infection;...
• Departmental Strategies
  1739. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps the Government is taking to support Irish whiskey producers affected by the imposition of new trade tariffs by the United...
• Greyhound Industry
  1740. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the mortality rate for non-coursing greyhounds between registration at birth in the Irish Coursing Club stud book...
• Departmental Properties
  1741. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a list of all unused properties, lands and buildings, under the ownership or control of his Department within County...
• Agriculture Industry
  1742. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of recognised young trained farmers in the State. [45274/25]
• Animal Welfare
  1745. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions that will be taken to ensure enforcement of current legislation regarding the control and welfare of horses; and if he...
• Agriculture Industry
  1747. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress he has made in providing additional resources to improving traceability and animal welfare in the equine industry, as...
• Departmental Reports
  1748. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received the final report from the Commission on Generational Renewal in Farming; if there is a timeline for this final...
• Harbours and Piers
  1749. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to carryout urgent improvement works to Kilkeveragh Pier, Portmagee, County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a...
• Regeneration Projects
  1750. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to develop a framework that enables local authorities to identify and make publicly owned land available for community led...
• Agriculture Industry
  1751. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the minimum age requirement for the green cert course is set at 23 years of age; if an exception can be made for an...
• Agriculture Schemes
  1752. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he agrees that administrative complexity and payment delays have dogged the farm environment scheme (details supplied); if he...
• Animal Diseases
  1753. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine as bovine tuberculosis increased in Ireland in 2024, with the TB incidence increasing to 6% of herds and TB having a devastating...
• Animal Welfare
  1754. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures being taken to tackle the ongoing issue of illegal sulky racing on public roads, which presents a serious danger to...
• Agriculture Industry
  1755. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the assessment that has been made of the impact on Irish dairy processors and farmers from substitution of dairy fat with vegetable...
• Trade Agreements
  1758. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status of the Mercosur Trade Deal; the progress made on the Programme for Government commitment that the Government will...
• Agriculture Schemes
  1759. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on GAEC-2 and if he will take into account the issues for farmers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
• Fishing Industry
  1760. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether his attention has been drawn to the recent closure of the sole quota; the measures his department is taking to assist...
• Hare Coursing
  1762. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether a ban on hare coursing should be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45853/25]
• Regeneration Projects
  1763. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the restoration plan for 40 hectares of blanket bog from coniferous forestry in Connemara Bog Complex SAC; and if...
• Land Issues
  1764. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for evidence from peatlands specialists and academics who support the continued use of the old definition of the Irish Peat Soil Map...
• Regeneration Projects
  1766. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the National Peatlands Strategy commitment to undertake sphagnum moss cultivation trials, and the publication of...
• Fishing Industry
  1767. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures that will be in place to ensure compliance of vessels of more than 18m in length with the 2,000-tonne sprat quota limit...
• Animal Welfare
  1775. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the possibility of outlawing the practice of sulky racing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46086/25]
• Forestry Sector
  1776. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to consider amending the Forest Act 2014 and the Forestry Regulations 2017 to allow forest owners who have felled their forest to...
• Animal Welfare
  1778. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures being taken to strengthen equine identification and traceability systems, including the enforcement of microchipping...
• Control of Horses
  1780. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has completed the final review of the control of horses legislation; if so, when the findings will be published;...
• Agriculture Schemes
  1781. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the deadline of the forgotten farmers scheme, in view of the fact that applicants had difficulty in gathering the...
• Departmental Expenditure
  1783. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular...
• Agriculture Industry
  1784. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to clarify whether meat plants are informed ahead of all inspections; if he will consider implementing a system that allows for...
• Commercial Rates
  1787. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide the details and addresses of all properties in the ownership of the Department that are absolved from paying commercial...
• Animal Slaughtering
  1788. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are any operational horse abattoirs within the State; if so, the locations of same; the regulatory and animal welfare...
• Departmental Data
  1790. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses exported from the State destined for horse abattoirs in other states in each year since 2015; the number...
• Animal Welfare
  1791. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the role of his Department to ensure that regulatory and animal welfare standards are adhered to in respect of horses exported from...
• Agriculture Schemes
  1792. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce a bounty for shooting deer, similar to the scheme that was in place many years ago for foxes and seals (details...
• Departmental Data
  1796. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of farmers in receipt of basic income support for the sustainability scheme under the current CAP with farm...
• Trade Missions
  1797. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to have a food related trade mission to Canada before the end of 2025. [46725/25]
• Departmental Staff
  1798. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE qualified entomologist working within the Department in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [46726/25]
• Agriculture Industry
  1799. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the fact that in cow traits the figure 8 is used for carbon, the way in which that figure is applied to the evaluation...
• Agriculture Schemes
  1803. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a balancing payment for ACRES to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46772/25]
• Agriculture Industry
  1804. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures being taken to offset rising input costs of fertiliser, feed and energy that are contributing directly to higher...
• Trade Agreements
  1805. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which he plans to ensure that beef, poultry, sugar, and ethanol imports from Mercosur states will be subject to...
• Renewable Energy Generation
  1806. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total funding allocated by county under the solar capital investment scheme to date; the number of successful applicants in each...
• Forestry Sector
  1807. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is considering increasing the mandatory minimum distance of newly planted forestry from vital infrastructure such...
• Fishing Industry
  1808. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how the €156 million allocated to the seafood sector in 2025 will be broken down by programme area, including aquaculture,...
• Fisheries Protection
  1813. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide data on the number of inspections carried out by the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority since 2015, disaggregated by...
• Aquaculture Industry
  1814. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of appeals to the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board that are currently outstanding; the appeals with the longest waiting...
• Fishing Industry
  1815. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of carbon reduction mandated by 2030 for the EU fishing fleet under current EU legislation. [47162/25]
• Harbours and Piers
  1819. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details of capital investment in the dredging of fishery harbours for every year since 2015; and if he will make a...
• Exports Growth
  1820. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the strategy for expanding Irish seafood exports into Asian markets; and how smaller producers are supported to...
• EU Funding
  1821. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the share of EMFAF funding that has been allocated to community-led local development projects in coastal areas. [47171/25]
• Control of Dogs
  1822. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department are taking to establish a centralised microchip database accessible to authorised officers and welfare...
• Animal Breeding
  1824. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is planning to introduce mandatory health testing for all commercially bred dogs and consider banning the breeding of...
• Assisted Animal Reproduction
  1825. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is planning on regulating canine fertility clinics and ban surgical insemination as recommended by the Joint Oireachtas...
• Departmental Schemes
  1826. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will implement a reimbursement scheme for rescue organisations that neuter dogs taken from pounds; and if he will make a...
• Food Security
  1827. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the State’s assessment of national grain and pulse days-of-cover under normal consumption; progress on establishing rotating...
• Departmental Data
  1828. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the outcome of any sugar beet feasibility or scoping studies since 2020; the indicative acreage, yield and capital expenditure...
• Food Security
  1830. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current holdings of national seed banks including cereals, pulses, potatoes and vegetable seed; the available cold-storage...
• Animal Sales
  1831. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will review the maximum valuation given for TB reactor cattle to bring it in line with current market value for...
• Departmental Policies
  1832. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when legal powers to the An Rialálaí Agraibhia to compel businesses to provide it with price and market information will...
• Weather Events
  1833. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made regarding the reduction of severe weather impacts on critical infrastructure and essential services...
• Trade Agreements
  1834. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposals that he will outline at the EU Agricultural Council in relation to the need to protect food production in Europe in...
• Departmental Reports
  1835. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the report of the Commission on Generational Renewal in Farming will be published; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Departmental Meetings
  1837. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on a recent meeting between the Deer Management Strategy Group and Bord Bia in relation to the marketing of...
• Animal Diseases
  1838. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action his Department is taking to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of lumpy skin disease in view of the prevalence of...
• Weather Events
  1839. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposals that will be finalised in respect of the provision of financial support for farmers who have incurred serious...
• Capital Expenditure Programme
  1840. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 2209 of 29 July 2025, if he will instruct the bodies under his aegis to provide the...
• Animal Welfare
  1842. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to confirm that Ireland will support the European Parliament’s position to allow tail docking for diagnostic, prophylactic...
• Nitrates Usage
  1843. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on a derogation rejection (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47393/25]
• Capital Expenditure Programme
  1847. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the up-to-date position at EU level in relation to the need to ringfence funding for CAP post 2027; and if he will make a statement...
• Nitrates Usage
  1848. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress on the all-island bioeconomy demonstrator projects, including locations, themes, capital works, co-funding with DAERA...
• EU Directives
  1849. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the recent engagements he and his Department have had with the EU regarding the nitrates derogation; and if he...
• Capital Expenditure Programme
  1850. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the recent engagements he and his Department have had with the EU regarding possible changes to CAP payments; and...
• Weather Events
  1851. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the recent engagements he and his Department have had on formulating an extreme weather event financial scheme...
• Departmental Funding
  1852. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline his plans to resource the Agricultural Appeals Review Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47424/25]
• Agriculture Schemes
  1853. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline any plans there are to streamline ACRES; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47425/25]
• Departmental Projects
  1854. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the progress being made to find suitable replacements for potato desiccants such as diquat; to provide any...
• Departmental Data
  1855. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of fertiliser sourced from outside the European Union in each of the past three years; the main countries of origin;...

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