Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Agriculture Schemes

Seán Canney

334. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider extending the deadline for the ACRES past the current deadline of 21 November 2022 for a further four weeks to allow farmers and agri-planners to arrange the necessary on-farm inspections in advance of applications being made, given many farmers will be locked out of the scheme otherwise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56026/22]

Forestry Sector

Seán Canney

771. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the new forestry programme will be launched; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53361/22]

Forestry Sector

Seán Canney

772. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce a support scheme to support forestry in view of the delay in launching the new forestry programme; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this delay has pushed many small businesses to the brink of closure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53363/22]

Agriculture Schemes

Seán Canney

873. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his rationale for requiring farmers applying for the new beef suckler scheme 2023 to be Bord Bia quality-assured given that the Bord Bia audit is another cross-compliance check for farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51565/22]

Animal Passports

Seán Canney

777. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider introducing a system by which digital copies of equine passports can be sent electronically to his Department to have them uploaded to the central database as opposed to forcing persons to travel and incur significant cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49487/22]

Pension Provisions

Seán Canney

2065. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is willing to address the anomaly in which a person (details supplied) who worked in a semi-State body has no recognition in terms of pension of their years of work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39827/22]

EU Funding

Seán Canney

807. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding that this Government will receive from the EU crisis reserve fund; the level of funding the Irish Government will top it up with; and the additional supports that this funding will provide for farmers in this deepening escalation of input prices. [27412/22]

Agriculture Schemes

Seán Canney

416. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that applicants for the Beef Data and Genomics Programme have experienced difficulty (details supplied) in relation to same; his views on whether cases in which all other conditions of the scheme have been met should be treated in a common sense manner and be accepted and processed by his Department without need for recourse to the agri appeals office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27113/22]

Forestry Sector

Seán Canney

937. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an organisation (details supplied) has submitted its final report on the review of the legislation and the full examination of the regulatory system for the forestry licencing; if the report has been finalised, if he will provide details of the findings; when he will introduce the recommended changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17973/22]

Agriculture Schemes

Seán Canney

403. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will include the equine sector in future TAMS on farm investment schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13651/22]

Agriculture Schemes

Seán Canney

107. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason farmers who make simple errors in online applications are not having their problems rectified within his Department’s appeals process, including, for example, farmers who fail to tick an areas of natural constraint, ANC, box on a basic payment scheme, BPS, application, who are not having this simple matter rectified by the section involved on appeal; if his attention has been drawn to the number of farmers who have lost significant amounts of funding as a result of this inflexibility; if a review will be conducted into the number of such instances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5968/22]

Agriculture Schemes

Seán Canney

148. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports he plans to put in place to support farmers in relation to the high cost of inputs including fertiliser due to the extraordinary increase in the price of inputs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5967/22]

Forestry Sector

Seán Canney

157. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a new licensing regime for single forestry applications to include planting, thinning and felling of forests to give certainty to farmers and persons involved in the forestry business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5971/22]

Agriculture Schemes

Seán Canney

176. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider amending the sheep welfare scheme to allow farmers who were forced out of the scheme for a year due to significant ill health or other exceptional circumstances to re-enter the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5970/22]

Agriculture Schemes

Seán Canney

229. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of reviews or appeals sent to his Department that are successful; if the percentage of these reviews or appeals which are being decided in the client’s favour has decreased in recent years; his views on whether clients seeking a review decision are having their cases reviewed in a fair and compassionate manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57720/21]

Agriculture Schemes

Seán Canney

230. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of appeals received by his Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020 not including appeals to the agriculture appeals office; the percentage of those which were successful in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57721/21]

Agriculture Schemes

Seán Canney

231. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of appeals received in the agriculture appeals office in each of the years 2016 to 2020; the percentage of those which were successful in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57722/21]

Forestry Sector

Seán Canney

726. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will apply the maximum timelines on each application in a functioning licensing system for forestry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54706/21]

Forestry Sector

Seán Canney

727. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a refined timeframe will be provided for the implementation of the MacKinnon Report on the review of the approval process for forestation in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54707/21]

Forestry Sector

Seán Canney

728. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce a single licence application system to deal with planting, thinning and harvesting to give certainty to the forestry industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54708/21]