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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: No, I certainly do not agree. If the Deputy had spent a bit more time analysing and assessing this and informing himself of this issue, he would not be making those assertions across the floor of the Dáil. No matter the issue he is addressing, it is always Deputy Murphy's approach to paint life as a competition between oligarchs and the wider population. He is trying to do the same...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Minister suggests that I should inform myself and, perhaps for the tenth time, says I should travel outside the M50. For the tenth time, I will tell him that I live outside the M50. People right across this country have a right to have input into how our farming is done and on the impact on our environment. I ask the Minister to inform me. When the cut to the derogation rate was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Again, Deputy Murphy is bending over backwards to present this in his favoured manner of oligarchs against the rest of the world. As I said to him, we have approximately 17,000 dairy farmers. Among those 17,000, the average number of cows is about 90. Of those 17,000 dairy farmers, about 40% farm in derogation. The average income across those 17,000 was €49,000.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister tell me about the 7,000?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I expect it would be the same or very close to it. The average number of cows is 90. It is really important for those farmers, particularly those whose viability and capacity to continue into the future depend on that derogation, that we maintain it. As I have said, we are very confident that we can do that, looking to improve our water quality while supporting those farmers. Any removal...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Minister did not give me the figures for the average income of the 7,000. That is what I am interested in getting. He suggests that it is some sort of conspiracy theory to say that the economy is run by very wealthy corporations - he used the term "oligarchs" - but it is not; it is the reality. Let us look at who is lobbying to retain the nitrates derogation. Glanbia made €117...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Is it not assumed that all farmers benefit from the supports available to agriculture in one way or another? Is it not unwise to give the impression that we are anti-profit? I do not know anybody who works for nothing. If the Deputy opposite is suggesting that would be a good thing and beneficial to the agrifood sector in this country, there is a clear and unequivocal answer to that. All...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The dairy sector in this country is based on the co-op structure. Given the socialist utopia Deputy Murphy is looking for, I would have thought he would be a bit more supportive of the sector given that it is farmers co-operating for the benefit of farmers. If he was to spend a bit more time meeting a few farmers or listening, looking and interrogating the statistics rather than trying to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Martin Heydon: Rural Ireland.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: Big industry has been lobbying the Minister, as exposed by what has been discovered by DeSmog.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Martin Heydon: Keep painting that picture, Paul. It is rubbish.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (26 Sep 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I appreciate the clarification on the information the Minister of State has provided. I agree that there does need to be an interdepartmental action on this. As far as the IFA is concerned, the solution or the pathway is there. The local authority would be the best placed body to remove the roadside ash trees in a safe manner. That is taking everybody's best interests into consideration....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (26 Sep 2024)

Claire Kerrane: I will take a supplementary question from Deputy Durkan.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (26 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Following up on the last line of questions, what is the extent to which research continues to take place in order to establish the effect on other species or a variation of the disease affecting other species? Regarding the various ash species, for example, American ash, has that species been affected to the same extent? From casual observation, it does not look like as though it has. This...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (26 Sep 2024)

Pippa Hackett: I thank both Deputies. I am open to correction on this but I think species like mountain ash do not seem to be as impacted but certainly it has impacted those plantations and also our native species, which have been here for centuries. It is definitely having an impact but some trees are showing signs of more resilience to it. Teagasc is very active in research in this space. It is trying...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 62. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1260 of 9 September 2024, the status of the public consultation on a review of trawling activity inside the six-nautical-mile zone which closed on 12 April 2024; if the submissions have now been analysed; the timeline for publication of a report of the public consultation; when a decision will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister and I are more than familiar with this issue, so we might not bother with the history of it. My question is very specific. It relates to trawling inside the six-nautical-mile zone by vessels more than 18 m long. We know there is a long history here so my question is specific. I know the communication period for submissions has closed. I know there were an extraordinary...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: As the Deputy pointed out, I held a public consultation on the review of trawling activity inside the six-nautical-mile zone and the baselines. The consultation took place over eight weeks and closed on 12 April. The purpose of this consultation was to invite stakeholders and interested parties to advise me of their views on any changes to policy within the scope of the review. A large...