Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Value for Money Reviews

Mattie McGrath

451. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by his Department from 1 January 2018 to 1 January 2019; the cost of each exercise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43323/19]

Civil Service Code of Conduct

Michael Fitzmaurice

452. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and grade of staff within his Department who have been sanctioned for breaching section 14 of the Civil Service code of conduct; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43362/19]

Civil Service Code of Conduct

Michael Fitzmaurice

453. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and grade of staff that have been granted permission by his Department to act on behalf of an association (details supplied) or any group or organisation that has interests with his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43363/19]

Nitrates Usage

Michael Fitzmaurice

454. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a helpline which farmers can contact if they have slurry to spread; if so, the contact number for the helpline; the process which follows once a farmer contacts the helpline; if the farmers that contact the helpline will be inspected before they are granted permission to spread slurry; if the farmers will be more likely to experience cross compliance inspections in the coming months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43364/19]

Beef Industry

Michael Fitzmaurice

455. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the frequency planned for the new beef taskforce to meet regularly once it meets initially; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43365/19]

Organic Farming Scheme

Martin Heydon

456. Deputy Martin Heydon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the basis on which he will consider the reopening and funding of the organic farming scheme to provide alternative options to farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43372/19]

Aquaculture Licence Applications

Micheál Martin

457. Deputy Micheál Martin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on concerns held by persons (details supplied) regarding the status of an application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43390/19]

Teagasc Administration

Thomas Pringle

458. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to amend and update the Agriculture (Research, Training and Advice) Act 1988 to ensure that Teagasc has the necessary expertise and mandate to consider mitigation strategies from the agriculture and food sectors here in view of the recent UN IPCC special report on land and climate change 2019. [43416/19]

Teagasc Funding

Thomas Pringle

459. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of the research budget of Teagasc that is dedicated to climate mitigation activities; and his views on the adequacy of resources available to his Department towards climate mitigation in view of the recent study by the CSO on environmentally damaging subsidies. [43417/19]

Bord Bia Funding

Anne Rabbitte

460. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the budget allocated to Bord Bia in each of the years 2011 to 2018, in tabular form. [43446/19]

Bord Bia Funding

Anne Rabbitte

461. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of the budget of Bord Bia on advertising and promotion in each of the years 2011 to 2018; the amount spent here and in other markets, respectively in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43447/19]

Bord Bia Funding

Anne Rabbitte

462. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of the various mediums of advertising and promotions, that is, print and digital used by Bord Bia; the amount allocated each year to each advertising platform in each of the years 2011 to 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43448/19]

Bord Bia Funding

Anne Rabbitte

463. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of Bord Bia budget of the advertising budget allocated to beef and lamb by Bord Bia in each of the years 2011 to 2018, in tabular form. [43449/19]

Bord Bia Funding

Anne Rabbitte

464. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Bord Bia has made an application in 2019 to secure EU funding for suckler beef promotion in key EU markets; if it has applied in the past for the same funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43450/19]

Exports Data

Anne Rabbitte

465. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of animals exported to Northern Ireland by month from January 2018 to date in October 2019. [43451/19]

Exports Data

Anne Rabbitte

466. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of animals exported to Northern Ireland by month from January 2018 to October 2019 on a month by month basis in tabular form; the number that went to a farm; and the number that went to a processing plant. [43452/19]

Beef Industry

Anne Rabbitte

467. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Teagasc has completed the in-depth review of the grid with a view to broadening of the in-spec bonus criteria to increase the number of eligible animals including the review of the hot and cold weighing system by Teagasc. [43454/19]

Beef Industry

Anne Rabbitte

468. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an in-depth review of market and customer criteria in relation to the four in-spec bonus criteria has commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43455/19]

Beef Industry

Anne Rabbitte

469. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Bord Bia has furnished his office with a paper outlining the potential development of a beef market price index model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43456/19]

EU Directives

Anne Rabbitte

470. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the consultation process with regard to the establishment of a working group between his Department and the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation which was following on from the unfair trading practices directive has been launched; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43457/19]

Beef Industry

Anne Rabbitte

471. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an organisation (details supplied) has provided details of its insurance scheme and additional information; if he will provide a copy of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43458/19]

Animal Slaughtering Standards

Anne Rabbitte

472. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has commenced the introduction of the appeal system for carcass classification in manual grading factories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43459/19]

Animal Welfare

Anne Rabbitte

473. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the calf mortality rates by month, county and sector in each of the years 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [43460/19]

Dairy Sector

Anne Rabbitte

474. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of dairy cows with no recorded births in each of the years 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019 but remain in lactation cycle for those years; the milk yield in litres of such dairy cows; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43461/19]

Rural Development Programme Data

Charlie McConalogue

475. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the financial allocations on an annual basis under the 2014-2020 rural development programme, RDP, for schemes (details supplied); the annual amount expended on the listed schemes in each year since established up to 30 September 2019; the number of active participants in each scheme; and the number of approved applicants that subsequently withdrew from each scheme, in tabular form. [43470/19]

Rural Development Programme Data

Charlie McConalogue

476. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expenditure incurred in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to 30 September 2019 for each measure under the Rural Development Programme 2014 – 2020 (details supplied) in tabular form; the original budget allocations made for each year in the 2014 to 2020 period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43472/19]

Teagasc Data

Charlie McConalogue

477. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual allocation made to Teagasc in 2018, 2019 and in budget 2020 towards research and knowledge transfer programmes on greenhouse gases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43481/19]

Beef Environmental Efficiency Scheme Data

Charlie McConalogue

478. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated first and full-year cost of returning a payment by amounts (details supplied) for a scheme based on the most recent participation figures at hand. [43482/19]

Sheep Welfare Scheme Data

Charlie McConalogue

479. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 2010 of 24 July 2018, the latest costings for the figures previously provided for this scheme based on the most recent participation figures at hand. [43483/19]

Departmental Agencies Data

Charlie McConalogue

480. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposed current and capital allocation to each agency under his remit following budget 2020; and the allocation made in his Department and in each agency under his remit towards hiring new staff. [43484/19]

TB Eradication Scheme

Paul Kehoe

481. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43491/19]

Bord na gCon Inspections

Mick Barry

482. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a fully qualified veterinarian is present at each sports information services greyhound race at tracks here; if drug testing is performed on the racing greyhounds at these events; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43524/19]

National Raised Bog Management Plan

Thomas Pringle

483. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the dedicated resources and expertise in relation to paludiculture available within his Department or State agencies under his remit; his plans to implement the recommendation regarding paludiculture research in chapter 8 of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action report; his views on the potential for paludiculture in the context of the new €5 million fund for wetlands restoration and rehabilitation as announced by Minister Bruton on 16 October 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43526/19]

Agrifood Sector

Thomas Pringle

484. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the names of the 400 stakeholders and delegates invited to attend the open policy debate on a strategy for the agrifood sector to 2030 arranged for 16 October 2019. [43528/19]

Sheep Welfare Scheme Appeals

Michael Healy-Rae

485. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43568/19]

Illegal Dumping

John Deasy

486. Deputy John Deasy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has discussed the utilisation of drones or similar technologies by local authorities to counteract illegal dumping; and if funding has been or will be provided to councils for this purpose. [42960/19]

National Broadband Plan Expenditure

Timmy Dooley

487. Deputy Timmy Dooley asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of the roll-out of the national broadband plan in each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [43468/19]

Broadband Service Provision

Robert Troy

488. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a property (details supplied) will be connected to efibre broadband. [42925/19]

Superannuation Schemes

Michael McGrath

489. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter raised in correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42929/19]

Water and Sewerage Schemes

Robert Troy

490. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has dealt with proposals to treat the entire sewerage intake for the eastern region and release as sludge into Lough Ennell, County Westmeath. [42937/19]

Renewable Energy Generation Targets

Thomas Pringle

491. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress towards meeting the renewable heat obligation of Ireland under EU directives for 2020; if Ireland is on course to meet the target; the budget for the support scheme for renewable heat in 2019 and 2020; the number of applications received under the scheme to date; the number of grants awarded for 2019; the number of applications by county; his plans to address the delays in approving up to 40 eligible projects in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42943/19]

Mobile Telephony Services

Dara Calleary

492. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress to date for each of the 41 action points made in the mobile phone and broadband task force report published in December 2016 in which his Department has lead or joint responsibility for implementing following the third national stakeholder forum; if each such action point has been completed, not completed or is ongoing, respectively; and the revised deadlines for action points not delivered by the original timeframes set out in tabular form. [42989/19]

National Broadband Plan Administration

Dara Calleary

493. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date by which the contract for the State intervention area will be awarded under the national broadband plan; and the approximate project build time from award of tender to construction and completion of all premises. [42992/19]

National Broadband Plan Administration

Dara Calleary

494. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of AMBER premises for the State intervention area under the national broadband plan; the number of BLUE premises to be covered by commercial operators; the number of LIGHT BLUE premises to be covered by county; the number of premises that have been connected under the plan for each such category by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42993/19]

Landfill Sites

Noel Rock

495. Deputy Noel Rock asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of monofill landfill sites in operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43011/19]

Recycling Data

Noel Rock

496. Deputy Noel Rock asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 2,220 of 23 July 2019, the specific measures under consideration to require on-site segregation of construction and demolition waste and materials under the EU circular economy package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43012/19]

Recycling Data

Noel Rock

497. Deputy Noel Rock asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the obligations placed on construction companies to have site waste management plans and their obligations for dealing with construction and demolition waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43013/19]

Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff Scheme

Robert Troy

498. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeframe for the publication of guidelines pertaining to the supply of energy to the national grid through solar energy and solar farms; and the details of the terms and conditions which prospective suppliers must adhere to. [43091/19]

Energy Schemes Data

Bríd Smith

499. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding used for SEAI grants; and the number of persons and households that gained funding or access to grants in each of the years 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019 in categories (details supplied). [43166/19]

Ministerial Meetings

Seán Sherlock

500. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he last met with waste providers; the date and location of the meeting; and the matters discussed. [43176/19]