Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Horse Racing Ireland

Clare Daly

1480. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will correct the record of Dáil Éireann in regard to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 449 of 12 July 2016, in which it was stated that a business case submitted to him by Horse Racing Ireland for the reappointment of the incumbent CEO for a further five-year term had been submitted by the board or HRI, in view of the fact that the board had not, in fact, been consulted about this business case before it was submitted, nor had the board considered or agreed to any motion to reappoint the incumbent. [24390/16]

Horse Racing Ireland Expenditure

Clare Daly

1488. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to, and if he agreed with, the board of Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) which sanctioned for the CEO of HRI an annual salary of €190,773 which breaches the specified salary range for the position of HRI CEO by an excess of €26,542; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25745/16]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

1553. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will continue to monitor the situation regarding the impending closure of a company (details supplied) with a view to ensuring the re-homing of the animals currently in its possession. [25405/16]

TB Eradication Scheme

Clare Daly

1556. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will supply farmers with the exact results of gamma blood tests on cattle rather than just a positive or negative result. [25474/16]

Food Labelling

Clare Daly

1570. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to undertake research into the introduction of warning packaging for meat products or warnings in all areas that meat is sold outlining the health and environmental consequences of meat production. [25673/16]

Bord na gCon Funding

Clare Daly

1571. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of State funding provided to Bord na gCon for each of the past five years; and the numbers employed and amount of this funding which went on wages and salaries. [25699/16]

Horse Racing Ireland Expenditure

Clare Daly

1575. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he agreed with and sanctioned the Horse Racing Ireland board's breach of salary guidelines for the CEO of Horse Racing Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25746/16]

Bord na gCon Funding

Clare Daly

1591. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will refuse any further State funding to the Irish Greyhound Board and the greyhound industry (details supplied). [26047/16]

Animal Slaughtering Standards

Clare Daly

711. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if officals from his Department are present on every occasion that members of the Defence Forces engage in the culling of animals. [22117/16]

Animal Slaughtering Standards

Clare Daly

712. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a vet is present on every occasion that animals are culled by members of the Defence Forces. [22118/16]

Live Exports

Clare Daly

31. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration was given to or any mention was made of the continuing imprisonment without trial of a person, details supplied, in an Egyptian prison during the brokering of the Irish-Egyptian agreement to allow Ireland to begin exporting live cattle to Egypt, which concluded in February 2016; if any effort was made during negotiations to leverage the deal to secure the release of this person; and if he will now consider calling off the deal before the first live exports take place near the end of this year. [21010/16]

Greyhound Industry

Clare Daly

52. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 56 of 8 June 2016, specifically that international trade takes place in a legally complex environment and that national legislation is not legally binding on activities in other states, to impose a ban on the export of greyhounds to China, given that it is not within the power of the Irish authorities to guarantee their welfare once they arrive there and given reports of severe maltreatment of greyhounds in Macau. [21009/16]

TB Eradication Scheme

Clare Daly

271. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the claim by the Irish Wildlife Trust that his Department regularly breaches the terms of special licences to snare and shoot 6,000 badgers a year as part of the State’s bovine tuberculosis eradication programme. [20130/16]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

587. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the location of greyhounds (details supplied); the steps he has taken to ensure their safety and that standards of transparency and accountability are upheld in the Irish Greyhound Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19228/16]

Veterinary Medicines

Clare Daly

456. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why he took no action to ensure that Irish producers of organic farmed salmon meet the requirements under European Commission Regulation No. 710/2009, given that the Food Safety Authority of Ireland was alerted in February 2016 that organic salmon was being marketed here without the warning required to inform consumers that the product had been treated with chemical veterinary products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17940/16]

Veterinary Medicines

Clare Daly

457. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline his plans to ensure that the public is made aware of when chemically treated organic salmon is marketed, as required under European Commission Regulation No. 710/2009. [17941/16]

Veterinary Medicines

Clare Daly

458. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why he took no action to ensure that Irish producers meet the requirement to protect the consumer, given that organic salmon is being marketed without the warning required under European Commission Regulation No. 710/2009 to inform consumers that the product had been treated with chemical veterinary products; and his plans to address this and to protect consumers. [17942/16]

Veterinary Medicines

Clare Daly

461. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that the European Commission Regulation No. 710/2009 requires that packaging states clearly when a product has been treated with chemical veterinary products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17937/16]

Veterinary Medicines

Clare Daly

462. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline his plans to ensure that stocks of organic salmon treated with chemical veterinary products are clearly identifiable to the consumer and that any products on the market without this warning are withdrawn from the market and no further organic products permitted on the market without meeting European Commission Regulation No. 710/2009. [17938/16]

Veterinary Medicines

Clare Daly

463. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why his Department holds no relevant records, given that the European Commission Regulation No. 710/2009 requires that whenever veterinary medicinal products are used such use is declared to the control body or the control authority before the animals are marketed as organic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17939/16]

Aquaculture Licence Applications

Clare Daly

476. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 14 April 2016, if he will appoint an independent person from outside his Department to undertake the review of his Department’s aquaculture licensing system in order that non-industry stakeholders and the general public can have confidence that the review is balanced and genuine. [16824/16]

Aquaculture Licences

Clare Daly

477. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 97 of 27 January 2016 and 181 of 14 April 2016, when he will complete the examination of overstocking at the sites; if he will publish the findings; and if he will ensure that the requirement to comply with European Union environmental legislation on aquaculture will not be ignored by his Department in the handling of these cases. [16825/16]

Aquaculture Licences

Clare Daly

478. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will suspend the granting of aquaculture licences until the proposed review of his Department’s aquaculture licensing regime, as promised in Food Wise 2025, is completed. [16826/16]

Departmental Expenditure

Clare Daly

496. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the amount of money his Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15409/16]

Departmental Expenditure

Clare Daly

497. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the amount of money spent on daily newspapers in 2015; if this is appropriate expenditure given the available and far cheaper online alternatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15425/16]

Departmental Staff Data

Clare Daly

498. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the number of staff working in his human resources section. [15441/16]

Ministerial Staff

Clare Daly

499. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set down the number of staff who work exclusively on constituency matters for him. [15457/16]

Departmental Staff

Clare Daly

500. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the changes in the numbers employed in his human resources section following the introduction of PeoplePoint. [15473/16]

Hare Coursing Regulation

Clare Daly

55. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to amend the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 to prohibit hare coursing. [14455/16]

Legislative Measures

Clare Daly

61. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to amend the Animal Health and Welfare Acts to remove the exemption for fox hunting from the legislation. [14456/16]

Greyhound Industry

Clare Daly

561. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to consider a ban on the export of greyhounds to China, given the fact that greyhounds at the Canidrome in Macau are euthanised at a rate of approximately one a day, amounting to 383 dogs killed by lethal injection in 2015, not because of injury but because according to a person (details supplied) they cannot win. [14738/16]

Greyhound Industry

Clare Daly

562. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether, by allowing and-or participating in and-or facilitating the export of greyhounds to race at the Canidrome in Macau through the issue of export documents and by giving approval to the Irish Greyhound Board to send these dogs outside the jurisdiction where the Irish authorities have no control of events, in the knowledge, as stated by a number of animal welfare organisations, that these dogs are being sent to their deaths, he and the IGB are breaching both the spirit and letter of the law and are prima facie in breach of the provisions of the Welfare of Greyhounds Act 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14744/16]

Animal Breeding Regulations

Clare Daly

531. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he will take to address the animal welfare breaches at a puppy farm (details supplied); and if he will take immediate steps to remove the licence held by this farm. [11353/16]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

194. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 25 of 5 May 2016, the welfare certification required from exporters of dogs to China and how this operates to protect dogs which are exported. [10990/16]

Bord na gCon

Clare Daly

195. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 25 of 5 May 2016, the oversight mechanisms the Irish Greyhound Board has in place such that it has confidence that its advice to owners involved in the export of greyhounds to only export to destinations that provide the expected levels of care and management as defined in the IGB's code of practice for the welfare of greyhounds is being followed; and what sanctions the board has in place should it find that it is not. [10991/16]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

196. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that 24 Irish greyhounds that were due to fly from Manchester to China on 12 May, 2016 did not go because of protests and complaints at the airport; and if he will take steps to ensure that the welfare of these greyhounds is secured upon their return to Ireland. [10992/16]

Fisheries Protection

Clare Daly

1031. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the rules governing the importation of live lobsters. [10076/16]

Fisheries Protection

Clare Daly

1032. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the controls in place to prevent the release of live imported lobsters into Irish waters. [10077/16]

Fishing Industry

Clare Daly

1033. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce a system of fish labelling here in order that the source of a catch and the boat landing are identifiable to the consumer. [10078/16]

Greyhound Industry

Clare Daly

25. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to investigate reports that Irish greyhounds are being exported to Hong Kong in order to be raced at the track known as the Canidrome in Macau in China and to immediately take steps to halt such exports, given the decision in 2012 by the Irish Government to halt the export of greyhounds to China by Bord na gCon on animal welfare grounds given the very poor animal safety record of the Canidrome, and given that Australia's greyhound body has banned the export of greyhounds to Macau because it does not meet contemporary animal welfare standards. [9204/16]

Coillte Teoranta

Clare Daly

30. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is concerned about the manner in which it was first announced that staff in Coillte would be facing a redundancy programme, that it was mentioned in an interview in The Irish Times with the chief executive officer of Coillte on 22 April 2016 that 100 staff would be made redundant, before any announcement had been made to staff or consultation engaged in regarding redundancies; if he will seek justification from Coillte for these redundancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9248/16]

Coillte Teoranta

Clare Daly

35. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to close Coillte offices; and the number and location of these. [9265/16]

Animal Welfare Expenditure

Clare Daly

160. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of several recent high profile instances in which horses have been badly neglected, injured or killed in Dublin, his plans to increase the funding available to animal welfare organisations such that a regular and comprehensive welfare inspection regime can be undertaken by those organisations in respect of all horses. [8235/16]

Greyhound Industry

Clare Daly

163. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all dogs must be microchipped, under the Microchipping of Dogs Regulations 2015; and his plans to offer an exemption to the greyhound racing industry in this regard. [8257/16]

Departmental Correspondence

Clare Daly

163. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he received correspondence in March 2012 regarding allegations of serious fraud in an organisation (details supplied); and the action that was taken by his Department to investigate these allegations following receipt of this correspondence. [7407/16]

Fish Farming

Clare Daly

181. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 97 of 27 January 2016, which four sites operated by Marine Harvest Ireland he is examining for overstocking, and with reference to each case, to state the amount of overstocking involved and what effect the overstocking has on the organic status of the fish produced at these sites. [6455/16]

Aquaculture Licences

Clare Daly

182. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out separately the moneys spent by Bord Iascaigh Mhara, the Marine Institute and his Department as a result of Bord Iascaigh Mhara’s Galway Bay licence application. [6456/16]

Aquaculture Development

Clare Daly

183. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 106 of 20 January 2016, if he will appoint a senior counsel to undertake the proposed review of his Department’s aquaculture licensing system so that non-industry stakeholders and the general public can have confidence that the review is balanced and genuine. [6457/16]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

88. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of an horrific incidence of animal cruelty (details supplied) in County Carlow; the action he will take to ensure that those responsible are brought to justice; and his views that this is totally unacceptable [3398/16]

Fish Farming

Clare Daly

96. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 479, 489 and 490 of 9 June 2015 regarding information on salmon farms operating outside their licensed areas and operating without the required warning lights or radar reflectors by site and by operators and given the level of non-compliance after warnings, if he will include the last element of the parliamentary questions; and the actions he plans to take to ensure his authorised officers are appropriately supported and the licensing conditions are met. [3457/16]

Fish Farming

Clare Daly

97. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if stocking levels on Irish salmon farms are within their licensed tonnage; the details of breaches, by site and by operator; the actions he will take to bring operators under their licensed limits, given that he informed this Deputy on 9 June 2015 that this was a key operational priority. [3458/16]

Employment Rights

Clare Daly

252. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are any matters which he is aware of but on which he has not taken action, given that his Department was aware of issues regarding migrant workers in the fishing industry, as far back as 2010, but did not take any action until it became public knowledge as a result of an article in the British newspaper The Guardian in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3273/16]

Forestry Management

Clare Daly

20. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered the contribution to flood-risk by non-native shallow-rooted trees, soil compaction by clear-felling with heavy machines and deep vertical drains on uplands; and if will discuss this matter with Coillte to develop a plan for mitigation. [2200/16]

Forestry Management

Clare Daly

23. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has taken note of the findings of the Pontbren Project in Wales which found that the re-instatement of native trees and hedgerows on uplands substantially reduced flooding lower down; and if he will apply the lessons of this project in an Irish context and encourage Irish farmers to take similar steps to those taken by that in Pontbren project. [2199/16]

Departmental Reports

Clare Daly

70. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will release the accident report on the loss of 230,000 salmon at Gerahies in County Cork on 1 February 2014, given that the final report was due at the end of August 2014, according to the file examined by the Information Commissioner. [2616/16]

Departmental Reports

Clare Daly

71. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why it has taken almost two years so far to produce a report on the loss of 230,000 salmon at Gerahies in County Cork on 1 February 2014 which may contain significant urgent safety issues for the marine environment and which he informed this Deputy on 4 March 2014 was a priority. [2617/16]

Departmental Reports

Clare Daly

72. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date on which the report of the Gerahies salmon loss accident was completed and sent to him; the decision-making process; and the purposes of which this report was prepared. [2618/16]

Departmental Reports

Clare Daly

73. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that he has now given the same reasons for refusing to release the interim draft reports on the loss of 230,000 salmon at Gerahies in County Cork on 1 February 2014 that were annulled by the Information Commissioner in July 2015 in relation to the first draft report; and if this represents best practice in dealing with requests under the relevant legislation. [2619/16]

Departmental Reports

Clare Daly

74. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an independent dive survey was undertaken after the loss of 230,000 salmon at Gerahies in County Cork on 1 February 2014 before he gave permission to restock the salmon production site. [2620/16]

Aquaculture Licence Applications

Clare Daly

102. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine given the reasons stated publicly by Bord Iascaigh Mhara, BIM, for withdrawing its aquaculture licence application for Galway Bay; if he will conduct an investigation into the preparation of this application; and pending the outcome of this investigation, if he will instruct BIM to halt the preparation of any other aquaculture licence applications. [2459/16]

Aquaculture Licence Applications

Clare Daly

103. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expenditure on the Galway Bay licence application including expenditure on scientific or legal expertise incurred by Bord Iascaigh Mhara and separately by the Marine Institute. [2460/16]

Aquaculture Development

Clare Daly

104. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his policy on deep-water aquaculture development is a failure given the withdrawal of the Bord Iascaigh Mhara aquaculture licence application and if he will now investigate the use of on-land salmon production systems rather than marine production systems, as recommended by environmental interests. [2461/16]

Fisheries Protection

Clare Daly

105. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 246, 248 and 249 of 10 November 2015, if he is aware of instances of overstocking in aquaculture sites operated by Marine Harvest and if this overstocking affects the stocking density permitted for organic certification. [2462/16]

Aquaculture Licences

Clare Daly

106. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the proposed review of his Department’s aquaculture licensing system will be conducted by someone who is independent of his Department; and if he will publish the terms of reference of this review. [2463/16]

Harbours and Piers Maintenance

Clare Daly

269. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding available for Rush Harbour works and improvements in County Dublin, given the desperate need for repair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46150/15]

Animal Experimentation

Clare Daly

212. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010 permits the breeding of dogs for the purpose of experimentation; and if he will protect the welfare of these dogs. [44757/15]

Aquaculture Development

Clare Daly

224. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 243 and 244 of 10 November 2015, given that the basic factual questions asked in each case were not addressed and given the limited reply, if his Department remains publicly accountable for the administration of fisheries and aquaculture. [43546/15]

Aquaculture Licences

Clare Daly

225. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 242 of 10 November 2015, why he is not implementing the explicit commitment in Food Wise 2025 to commission an independent review of his aquaculture licensing system which would report by early 2016; if he is willing to accept an independent review of the aquaculture licensing system, and if he will implement the other commitments in Food Wise 2025. [43547/15]

Aquaculture Development

Clare Daly

226. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 246, 248, and 249 of 10 November 2015, if he will indicate the accreditation and audit body or bodies certifying the organic status of salmon farms run by Marine Harvest Ireland from 2014 to date. [43548/15]

Fishing Industry

Clare Daly

272. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in the same way that there is a need for transparency in the Irish Farmers Association, if such transparency is also needed in the fishing industry, particularly in the context of the large amounts of money involved in quotas of fish which are a natural resource; the safeguards in place for dealing with lobbyists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44103/15]

Fish Farming

Clare Daly

115. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will instruct Bord Iascaigh Mhara to remove from its website all references to the amount and usage of chemicals on Irish fish farms such as chemicals that are rarely used on today’s Irish fish farms, as he has made it clear that neither he nor any of the agencies under the aegis of the Department, such as Bord Iascaigh Mhara or the Marine Institute, has any data on which to base such statements. [43240/15]

Fisheries Protection

Clare Daly

262. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the penalties in place for super trawlers that switch off the automatic identification system such that they are not visible to the public eye in sea boat traffic; and the steps taken to ensure they operate transparently. [42523/15]

Fisheries Protection

Clare Daly

275. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will put an observer on any vessel fishing in the exclusive economic zone, under the Law of the Sea to which Ireland is a party; when he last put an observer on a super-trawler, and, if not, to set out the reason. [42632/15]

Fisheries Protection

Clare Daly

296. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an observer scheme is operational on Irish pelagic vessels and if, at the forthcoming fisheries negotiation, he will call on the European Union to make resources available to flag ships of member states to ensure they have observers on board when they enter Ireland's fishery zone to monitor the catch and to protect Ireland's marine resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42941/15]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

20. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce stiffer penalties for persons convicted of animal cruelty, given the frequent and increasing reports of instances of this. [41254/15]

Fish Farming

Clare Daly

217. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm the statement on Bord Iascaigh Mhara's website that chemicals are rarely used on Irish fish farms by providing the amount and nature of the chemicals used during 2012 to 2014. [41398/15]

Fisheries Protection

Clare Daly

218. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if independent monitors are on board the super trawlers off the west coast, as required under Council Regulation (EC) No 812/2004 of 26 April 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41429/15]

Departmental Legal Cases

Clare Daly

115. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the request of a person (details supplied) to invoke mediation as an alternative to a Supreme Court proceeding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41045/15]

Greyhound Industry

Clare Daly

271. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the regulatory, legislative or other steps he will take to address the issue of the large number of stress-related illnesses and deaths of hares in coursing compounds every year. [39260/15]

Aquaculture Development

Clare Daly

242. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the proposal in Food Wise 2025 to review his Department’s aquaculture licensing system, if he will confirm the commencement date for the review; if he will confirm that the reviewer will be genuinely independent of his Department; the terms of reference for the review; and if he will confirm that he will publish the review report in full. [39037/15]

Aquaculture Data

Clare Daly

243. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the public moneys paid to shellfish aquaculture operators and finfish aquaculture operators from national and EU funds in each of the years 2004 to 2014, inclusive. [39038/15]

Aquaculture Data

Clare Daly

244. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons employed full time and part time by finfish operators and shellfish operators in each of the years 2004 to 2014. [39039/15]

Fishing Industry Development

Clare Daly

245. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the criteria applied for the award of organic status to salmon farms. [39040/15]

Fisheries Protection

Clare Daly

246. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that the treatments used for the control of fish diseases on salmon farms are compatible with the organic status of the salmon produced on these farms. [39041/15]

Aquaculture Licence Applications

Clare Daly

247. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that no conflict of interest exists for his Department and for Bord Iascaigh Mhara in the assessment of Bord Iascaigh Mhara's Galway Bay licence application, given that his Department’s fisheries division is responsible for both the governance of BIM and for the assessment of licence applications. [39042/15]

Fisheries Protection

Clare Daly

248. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the stocking density in salmon farm sites operated by Marine Harvest, by cage, for each of the years 2013 to 2015 to date. [39043/15]

Fisheries Protection

Clare Daly

249. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the salmon farms that experienced sea lice problems this year; in respect of each of those salmon farms, the specific treatments that were applied in each case with the full name and dosage of the chemicals used; the number of treatments given, site by site, including the chemicals and dosages per site and per treatment; the dates for all treatments; and the number of accelerated harvests ordered by his Department due to sea lice infestations. [39044/15]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

391. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of times the maximum penalties for animal cruelty offences have been applied by the courts under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013; and if he is satisfied that the penalties provided for in that Act are a sufficient deterrent. [37290/15]

Departmental Meetings

Clare Daly

415. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of meetings he and officials from his Department have had with lobbyists from fish producer organisations since the regulations on lobbying came into force on 1 September 2015; the names of the lobbyists; the duration of each meeting; and the topics discussed. [37534/15]

Hare Coursing

Clare Daly

159. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm or deny that hares were sick and dying in the compound of Cashel Coursing Club leading up to the weekend of 10 October 2015; if this was the reason the meeting had to be called off; if it is the case that hares were sick and dying, if post mortems were carried out to determine the cause of the deaths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36852/15]

Aquaculture Licences

Clare Daly

73. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason after the unexplained death or escape of approximately 232,780 salmon into Bantry Bay on Saturday, 1 February 2014, records released by his Department show that the relevant officials in his Department were not made aware of the accident until the following Monday, 9 February 2014, in spite of the statutory obligations on operators to report accidents without delay. [36789/15]

Aquaculture Licences

Clare Daly

74. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an assurance to the public that the company responsible for the unexplained death or escape of approximately 232,780 salmon in Bantry Bay on 1 February 2014 was requested to carry out a detailed structural inspection of the cages, equipment and moorings by qualified divers, with a follow-up report submitted to his Department before the introduction of additional stock to the cages, as recommended by his Department’s engineering division. [36790/15]

Bovine Disease Controls

Clare Daly

23. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered the implications of research conducted by the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University Belfast that interference with badgers may be contributing to maintaining bovine Tuberculosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34016/15]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

28. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on recent consideration of amending the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 to provide increased protection to animals, particularly regarding outlawing hare coursing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34017/15]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

105. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will amend the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 in order to provide protection for foxes from dogs (details supplied). [34931/15]

Fish Discards

Clare Daly

342. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the facilities in place for receiving discards, as and from January 2016, when some demersal species must be landed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34028/15]

Animal Identification Schemes

Clare Daly

364. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if scanning for microchips is compulsory in all dog pounds. [34172/15]

Fisheries Offences

Clare Daly

370. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 479, 489, 490 of 9 June 2015, in reply to which he stated that he would forward the information on to this Deputy's office, if he will now forward the outstanding information. [34243/15]

Departmental Reports

Clare Daly

400. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 126 of 17 June 2015, the location where the work plan, either annual or multi-annual; and the reports, either annually, quarterly or otherwise, of the monitoring and compliance unit established by his Department can be accessed. [34571/15]

Control of Dogs

Clare Daly

115. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that a petition of over 2,500 persons is calling for an end to the welfare implications for the re-homing of dog breeds listed on the Control of Dogs Regulations 1998, where some pounds currently do not allow their re-homing based on breed, but rather directly euthanise them. [33862/15]