Written answers

Tuesday, 25 November 2025

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

 
  • Departmental Reviews
    694. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department intends to undertake a review of the Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010 and the 2018 regulations associated with...
  • Departmental Investigations
    695. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his response to an investigation by organisations (details supplied) regarding the availability of anti-biotics in Brazil; if they...
  • Departmental Staff
    696. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the formation of a new panel for technical agricultural officers within his Department while there are persons on an...
  • Departmental Budgets
    697. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the 2025 and 2026 capital budget allocations for works under the Fishery Harbour Centre and Coastal Infrastructure Development...
  • Agriculture Supports
    698. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a farmer (details supplied) will receive the remainder of a compensation payment following a TB outbreak in 2024; and if he will...
  • Animal Breeding
    699. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a full review of the Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010 and the 2018 guidelines will be completed; the scope of that review;...
  • Departmental Data
    703. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of inspections carried out on dog breeding establishments in each of the past five years; the number of enforcement...
  • Departmental Consultations
    704. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has engaged with the Department of Housing; Local Government and Heritage, and local authorities to improve consistency in dog...
  • Animal Welfare
    705. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details on supports available to rescue organisations caring for dogs seized from illegal breeding operations,...
  • Livestock Issues
    708. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there is an undue delay dealing with reactor animals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Agriculture Supports
    709. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a delay in the payment of compensation to farmers who have reactors; if so, for the length of time; when payment will be...
  • Departmental Data
    710. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have submitted applications for TB reactor compensation; the number that are still under consideration;...
  • Common Agricultural Policy
    711. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the scientific basis for statements in the CAP Strategic Plan 2023–2027 (details supplied); and if these claims were based on...
  • Animal Breeding
    713. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether the minimum requirements or participation conditions set an organisation (details supplied) for genomic services or...
  • Agriculture Industry
    714. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether the secondary use or linkage of farmers' genomic, performance and flockbook/pedigree data (details supplied) has been...
  • Departmental Data
    717. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the recourse available to breeders who have been excluded from services (details supplied); and the way in which such exclusions are...
  • Animal Breeding
    718. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide any formal documentation or statutory basis for the designation of an organisation (details supplied) as a national...
  • Departmental Data
    719. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide, in respect of each Department official who currently serves or has served as secretary, director or governance officer of...
  • Departmental Staff
    720. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which his Department complies with Article 41(b) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1012, which requires that officials performing...
  • Departmental Data
    721. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which his Department fulfils Article 41 as the competent authority, including impartiality procedures,...
  • Departmental Reviews
    722. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department carries out independent conflict-of-interest risk assessments, separate from SLA declarations, as required by...
  • Common Agricultural Policy
    725. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which his Department ensures that linking eligibility or participation in CAP schemes such as SCEP or SIS to the use of...
  • Animal Breeding
    727. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department monitors or records cases where organisations (details supplied) remove genetic indexes; to list all such cases...
  • Fishing Industry
    729. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to ensure that onboard electronical monitoring is implemented on all factory ships and any and all other large foreign trawlers that...
  • Livestock Issues
    731. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can provide further details on the cross-Border pilot Regional Cooperation Programme on tackling bovine TB announced as part of...
  • Fishing Industry
    732. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether Ireland intends to apply for port listing for our pelagic sector under the newly agreed EU Commission; if, in light of...
  • Agriculture Supports
    733. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the delay in issuing the 2024 ACRES payment to a person (details supplied) will be resolved; when they can expect their payment;...
  • Environmental Impact Assessments
    734. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has assessed the potential impacts on agricultural land, livestock and watercourses from contamination arising from...
  • Departmental Staff
    735. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of former secretary general’s, retired civil servants, directors of service, retired city/county managers or those...
  • Fishing Industry
    736. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he would consider directly contacting all EU member states’ ambassadors, including all non-coastal states, to convey to...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    737. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount his Department and any body under his aegis have spent on the services of a company (details supplied), by year and...
  • Departmental Funding
    740. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding allocated for the monitoring, reporting or trapping of the Asian hornet that can be applied for by local authorities,...
  • Departmental Data
    741. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of cattle slaughtered from factory controlled feedlots or related proxy therefore, by quarter, in each of the years 2024...
  • Fishing Industry
    742. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports his Department is providing, and will provide, to the fishing industry in light of recommended quota reductions for...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    745. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide the Department’s annual expenditure on State Claims Agency costs for the years 2020–2025. [66340/25]

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