Michael Lowry

Independent · Tipperary North

Activity on Agriculture — 310 events (16 lobbying · 293 questions · 1 votes) full profile →

• 2026-01-21
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  Macra na Feirme Agriculture

  • Common Agricultural Policy, Trade Deals and Young Farmer issues
• 2026-01-21
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  Horse Racing Ireland Agriculture

  • Invitation to HRI awards
• 2025-09-19
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  Horse Sport Ireland Agriculture

  • Issues and challenges facing sport horse sector
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures being taken to tackle the ongoing issue of illegal sulky racing on public roads, which presents a serious danger to road users and involves widespread mistreatment of horses and ponies; if the Minister is aware of recent documented incidents of such races, including one highlighted by an organisation (details supplied) which show clear evidence of animal abuse; and if he will commit dedicated resources to animal welfare violations associated with this practice. [45679/25]
• 2025-05-21
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  The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA Agriculture

  • Priorities for Farming and Rural Ireland in New Government Programme
• 2025-05-20
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  The Irish Co-operative Organisation Society Ltd Agriculture

  • Programme for Government
• 2025-05-18
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  The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA Agriculture

  • Roadside Ash Dieback Removal Scheme Proposal
• 2025-05-16
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  The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA Agriculture

  • Plant Health and Biosecurity for Forestry
• 2025-05-15
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  The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA Agriculture

  • Splash Plate Ban
• 2025-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if allowances are available to a person (details supplied); if allowances are given in such circumstances for minor discrepancies; if this case will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46279/24]
• 2025-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if allowances are available to a person (details supplied); if allowances are given in such circumstances for minor discrepancies; if this case will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46280/24]
• 2025-01-21
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  Macra na Feirme Agriculture

  • Funding for the Macra Land Mobility Service
• 2025-01-21
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  Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association Agriculture

  • Request for Meeting with Michael Lowry, Regional Independents.
• 2025-01-20
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  The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA 18 returns AgricultureEmployment

  • Regional Veterinary Laboratories - IFA Submission to all Political Parties and Dáil Éireann Candidates for the 2024 General Election
  • VAT Rate on Vaccines - IFA Submission to all Political Parties and Dáil Éireann Candidates for the 2024 General Election
  • Johnes
  • BVD
  • Spent Mushroom Compost Scheme
  • Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR)
  • Parasite Control Programme
  • Development of Vaccine for TB - IFA Submission to all Political Parties and Dáil Éireann Candidates for the 2024 General Election
  • Deer Management Programme - IFA Submission to all Political Parties and Dáil Éireann Candidates for the 2024 General Election
  • Equine
  • Seed Potato
  • Farmer Liability in Payment for TB Testing
  • Wildlife Control Programme
  • Beef Calf from Dairy Herds Rearing Scheme
  • Suckler Cow Supports - IFA Submission to all Political Parties and Dáil Éireann Candidates for the 2024 General Election
  • Suckler Cow & Beef
  • Dairy - 2024 General Election
  • Cost of Employment
• 2025-01-20
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  Veterinary Ireland Agriculture

  • Communications with Taoiseach, Tanaiste, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Minister for Health, Chief Veterinary Officer, and other DPOs, regarding Veterinary Ireland concerns on the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023, and associated Statutory Instrument.
• 2025-01-18
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  The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA 31 returns AgricultureEU Affairs

  • Fallen Animals
  • Tillage Survival Scheme
  • Tillage Expansion Scheme - I2024 General Election
  • Organic Farming
  • Aquaculture - 2024 General Election
  • Farm Forestry
  • Roadside Ash Dieback Scheme - 2024 General Election.
  • Amendments to State Aid Guidelines to Support Farmers with Ash Dieback
  • Designated Natura Areas
  • Areas of Natural Constraints (ANCs)
  • Tipperary North IFA Budget 2025 Priorities
  • Beef Sustainability Scheme - IFA Submission to all Political Parties and Dáil Éireann Candidates for the 2024 General Election
  • Sheep - IFA Submission to all Political Parties and Dáil Éireann Candidates for the 2024 General Election
  • Pig Stability Fund
  • Dog Control - IFA Submission to all Political Parties and Dáil Éireann Candidates for the 2024 General Election
  • Simplified, Fully Funded Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
  • Generational Renewal
  • Producer Organisations (POs)
  • EU Trade Policy
  • Farming & Food - A Sector Worth Backing
  • Pigs - 4 Day Notification of Organic Nutrient Movements
  • Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Transition Period
  • Milling Industry Support - IFA Submission to all Political Parties and Dáil Éireann Candidates for the 2024 General Election
  • Hedge Cutting and Controlled Burning
  • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS)
  • Agriculture Appeals
  • Soil Monitoring and Resilience
  • Utilisation of Low Emission Slurry Spreading (LESS)
  • Agri Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) - IFA Submission to all Political Parties and Dáil Éireann Candidates for the 2024 General Election
  • Protected Urea
  • Fertiliser Register
• 2025-01-17
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  The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA 2 returns Energy and Natural ResourcesBanking and Financial Institutions

  • Measures Implementing Ireland's Biomethane Strategy
  • Banking
• 2025-01-16
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  The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA 2 returns Finance

  • Stamp Duty on Agricultural Land - IFA Submission to all Political Parties and Dáil Éireann Candidates for the 2024 General Election
  • VAT & Taxation on Farm Inputs
• 2025-01-15
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  The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA 7 returns AgricultureEU Affairs

  • Agricultural Rainy-Day Fund
  • Rural Social Scheme - IFA submission to all Political Parties and Dáil Éireann Candidates for the 2024 General Election
  • Farm Safety
  • Emergency Humanitarian Support Scheme - IFA Submission to all Political Parties and Dáil Éireann Candidates for the 2024 General Election
  • Green Public Procurement Policy
  • Agri-Food Regulator
  • Programme for a New Government
• 2024-10-17
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when additional measures will be implemented to address the outbreaks of bovine tuberculosis in parts of County Tipperary; if there are sufficient personnel in the district veterinary offices at present dealing with disease-control issues; to confirm that the ongoing testing of badgers and wild deer will continue for the reminder of the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42213/24]
• 2024-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide additional information on the case of a person (details supplied); the reasons this application was with the Department for approximately 13 months; the reasons he had to make several phone calls to enquire about the status of his application; the reasons he was informed verbally that his application was approved pending the issuing of the final approval letter; the reasons this application was then refused and subsequently refused again on appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36781/24]
• 2024-09-09
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if separate individual owners can plant adjacent to each other land under the native tree area scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33855/24]
• 2024-09-09
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the specific measures that will be introduced in Budget 2025 to support the survival and sustainability of various agricultural sectors, particularly in relation to the proposed tillage survival package and extended support schemes for suckler cows, sheep, and dairy-beef calves; if he will outline any additional supports planned for horticulture, organics, pigs, poultry, equine sectors, and aquaculture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35649/24]
• 2024-09-09
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he intends to introduce the 'forgotten farmers' scheme, which aims to provide support to farmers who missed out on previous schemes; if this scheme will allow eligible farmers to access the complementary income support for young farmers, the national reserve, and the TAMS/young farmers’ capital investment scheme, with an increased grant aid rate of 60%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35650/24]
• 2024-09-09
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status of afforestation licensing, given the recent achievement of licensing 182 hectares for afforestation recently; if his Department has met the minimum target pace for the issuing of such licences; if he will address the ongoing issue of sluggish planting rates, which remain at less than a third of the targeted weekly pace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35769/24]
• 2024-09-09
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures being taken to address the unsustainable levels of private felling, as indicated in the recent forestry licensing dashboard (details supplied); and how current Department policies and approaches to afforestation will be adjusted to mitigate severe consequences for the forestry and construction sectors, as highlighted in a review (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35770/24]
• 2024-09-09
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps being taken to ensure that Ireland can meet its housing needs with homegrown lumber; to address the concerns raised about the potential need to import timber due to Government inaction, as highlighted in the recent Forestry Licensing Dashboard (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35771/24]
• 2024-07-02
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 191 of 20 June 2024, where in the climate action performance payment scheme documents is the conditionality regarding “current” owners detailed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27822/24]
• 2024-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Further and Higher Education

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 630 of 24 October 2023, the status of the proposed new veterinary school for expanded veterinary education in Ireland; the status of the negotiations between the Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine and his Department concerning this new school; the possibility of it being located at the University of Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27941/24]
• 2024-06-20
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, following the recent documentary aired by RTÉ on 12 June 2024 (details supplied), he will outline the actions being taken to address the issues highlighted in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26557/24]
• 2024-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26594/24]
• 2024-05-01
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 475 of 20 June 2023, if he intends this to only apply in situations where the licence has not been actioned (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19746/24]
• 2024-05-01
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the climate resilient reforestation scheme will be launched; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19747/24]
• 2024-04-23
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that farmers along the Shannon Callows in Redwood, Ballyea and Ballymacegan, areas of County Tipperary who were greatly impacted by flooding over a minimum of six flood occurrences over the course of dates between 2 July 2023 and 29 September 2023, were not included in the recent compensation scheme; if he is taking steps to address this oversight; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17540/24]
• 2024-04-16
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the minimum tree width acceptable under the native tree area scheme type 2 native forests for water protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16578/24]
• 2024-04-16
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the minimum average tree width acceptable under the native tree area scheme type 2 native forests for water protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16579/24]
• 2024-04-09
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if conversion of conifer crops to native woodland is permitted under the Native Woodland Conservation scheme 2023-2027 recently launched by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14210/24]
• 2024-04-09
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if applications for Native Woodland Conservation lodged with his Department under the previous forestry programme for the NWC scheme and entail the conversion of conifer forests to native woodland in areas of high ecological and water quality values, as encouraged by his Department, will be eligible under the native woodland conservation scheme 2023 – 2027 launched by his Department recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14211/24]
• 2024-03-20
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11932/24]
• 2024-03-07
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 265, 266 and 267 and 268 of 14 February 2024, to confirm registered ecologists were not permitted to attend the in person training referred to in the answer; if his Department will be providing additional guidance via circulars, updated working documents or other text documents for the assessment of environmental constraints in afforestation (high nature farmland, farmland birds, breeding waders, hen harriers); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11251/24]
• 2024-03-07
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No.520 of 13 February 2024, to detail the area of clearfell and thinning licensed per county for 2024, 2025, 2026, for the private sector, identifying broadleaf and conifer separately and the corresponding details for Coillte, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11253/24]
• 2024-03-07
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 520 of 13 February 2024, to detail the area of clearfell and thinning that is the subject of a felling licence application to his Department that remains to be licensed per county for 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, for the private sector, identifying broadleaf and conifer separately and the corresponding details for Coillte, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11254/24]
• 2024-03-07
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the area of clearfell and thinning licensed per county for 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034; the details that are available to him on the felling licence application provided by the applicants, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11255/24]
• 2024-03-05
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can clarify the measures in place to ensure equal opportunity for all farmers in the ACRES programme (details supplied); the plans to approve all applications which were submitted in the ACRES program's second tranche; if the ACRES programme will be expanded to accommodate the high volume of applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10820/24]
• 2024-02-14
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide additional information regarding breeding waders and afforestation in the new forestry programme; when will this information be released for public review and consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6837/24]
• 2024-02-14
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide additional information regarding farmland birds and afforestation in the new forestry programme; when will this information be released for public review and consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6838/24]
• 2024-02-14
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide additional information regarding high nature value farmland and afforestation in the new forestry programme; when will this information be released for public review and consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6839/24]
• 2024-02-14
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide additional information regarding the hen harrier within the ‘current distribution and breeding distribution for hen harrier’ layer and afforestation in the new forestry programme; when will this information be released for public review and consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6840/24]
• 2024-02-13
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will intervene in the case of issues concerning a 2023 basic income support for sustainability, BISS, application by farmers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6310/24]
• 2024-02-13
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he intends to launch the native woodland conservation scheme as part of the new forestry programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6645/24]
• 2024-02-13
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date he intends to launch the revised ash dieback scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6646/24]
• 2024-02-13
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the area of clearfell and thinning licensed per county for 2024, 2025, 2026; the details that are available to him on the felling licence application provided by the applicants, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6647/24]
• 2024-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review correspondence (details supplied); the progress made in afforestation efforts, particularly in relation to the targets set for 2024; what measures are being implemented to ensure sustainable forestry practices in these operations; how these trends align with the national forestry management strategies and environmental conservation efforts; the impact of the ash dieback scheme and the native tree scheme on biodiversity and forest health in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4396/24]
• 2024-01-18
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a tree growing on private land falls onto the public road and a car collides with an already fallen tree, is the landowner or the County Council liable particularly in the case of Ash trees impacted by Ash dieback; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2159/24]
• 2024-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that dealing with a fallen tree following a storm can often be the most dangerous tree related operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2160/24]
• 2024-01-17
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the 20% additional broadleaves required in the new forestry programme under the new forest types can be only one broadleaf species or if a variety of broadleaf species are required under the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1747/24]
• 2024-01-17
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the 20% additional broadleaves required under FT12 can comprise only one broadleaf species; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1748/24]
• 2024-01-17
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if alder does not qualify for the deer tree shelter, hare and deer fencing scheme in both plots and as additional broadleaves in other forest type plots; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1749/24]
• 2024-01-17
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to confirm that the Forestry Service will not fail or ask for remedial actions where deer have damaged or eaten alder planted as additional broadleaves under the afforestation or reconstitution programme as alder is not eligible for the deer tree shelter, hare and deer fencing scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1750/24]
• 2023-12-14
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to urgently address the critical issue of the delayed ACRES cooperation payments until February 2024, which was announced without any prior consultation with affected farmers or stakeholders (details supplied); if he agrees that immediate action and a review of the document submitted by an organisation are crucial; the steps he will take to rectify the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55946/23]
• 2023-12-05
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 121 and 122 of 29 November 2023, if his Department will refuse to permit the conversion of existing forest land to agroforestry as is not a policy objective of his Department, nor is it a strategic action in his Department’s Forestry Strategy implementation plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53918/23]
• 2023-11-30
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Forest Service of his Department has cross-referenced the ash dieback RUS applications with corresponding road licence applications on a forest level basis to ensure that forest road approvals will be issued in conjunction with ash dieback reconstitution approvals to enable the necessary clearance works to take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52944/23]
• 2023-11-30
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is possible to change the replanting species on a felling licence that has issued from his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53103/23]
• 2023-11-28
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Food and the Marine to list the companies and State agencies that have engaged in the Woodland Environmental Fund since its formation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51910/23]
• 2023-11-23
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to review and address correspondence (details supplied) concerning operational inefficiencies in the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland; to provide an update on the postponed issuance of letters of offer for the TAMS 3 solar PV grant as this delay is greatly impacting businesses and farmers, as these concerns are causing significant financial strain and affecting the efficacy of these key environmental schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51637/23]
• 2023-11-22
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will include an advisory circular with all Ash dieback reconstitution scheme approvals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51286/23]
• 2023-11-21
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if plots and plantations (details supplied) are eligible for the ash dieback grant aid scheme; if the owner needs to secure a felling licence for the non-ash broadleaf species; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51006/23]
• 2023-10-24
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 475 of 20 June 2023, and in view of the criteria stated in the native woodland conservation scheme (details supplied), if it is fair that this envisages the preparation and submission of the site-specific native woodland plan by a NPWS ecologist and NPWS forester to his Department prior to the clear-felling of the conifer forest taking place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46534/23]
• 2023-10-24
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 475 of 20 June 2023, if the Forestry Service has granted an approval for native woodland conservation under the private high forest category to anyone where the criteria under NPWS private high forest category listed on pages 3 and 4 of the scheme documents have not been met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46566/23]
• 2023-10-24
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  Asked Further and Higher Education

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 797 of 30 May 2023, the status of the proposed new veterinary school at the University of Limerick; if he will provide an update on the negotiations between the Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine and his Department concerning funding and the quantity of additional veterinary education places that will be available in UL; if these additional veterinary education places will be listed and available for students to apply for on the CAO system for the 2024-2025 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46184/23]
• 2023-10-17
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details of the proposals for a voluntary dairy exit scheme that is currently under consideration by his Department; if he will provide information regarding the consideration given to the inclusion of an entry scheme for young farmers as part of or alongside the proposed exit scheme; if he will provide information on the various proposals being examined as part of this voluntary scheme and any engagement his Department has had with key stakeholders (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45276/23]
• 2023-10-10
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review Parliamentary Question No. 472 of 3 October 2023 and the case of goat milk farmers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44190/23]
• 2023-10-03
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review a case (details supplied); if the Minister is aware that since the identification of TB reactors in their herd, they have been unable to trade and are experiencing extreme financial hardship; the reasons they have been informed by the Department that they cannot claim any TB support payments; what financial support schemes are made available to goat milk farmers to assist in reducing the burden and costs associated with TB breakouts on such farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42221/23]
• 2023-06-20
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if applications for the native woodland conservation scheme in situations pertaining to the conversion of existing conifer forest to native woodland must be lodged with the Forestry Service before the clear felling or final harvesting of commercial sitka spruce takes place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29260/23]
• 2023-06-13
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on his efforts to protect Ireland's ritual (religious) slaughter practices in order that the meat industry can continue to supply meat to the Jewish and Islamic religious faiths in Ireland and throughout Europe (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28558/23]
• 2023-06-13
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the Government's efforts to promote sustainable agriculture, ensure food security, and support rural farmers in Ireland; the initiatives and policies being implemented to improve environmental stewardship, promote sustainable farming practises, and assist farmers in adopting sustainable and climate-resilient agricultural methods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28559/23]
• 2023-05-30
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 542 of 16 May 2023, if he will provide the metrics used by officials in his Department to conclude that financial supports through the Brexit Adjustment Reserve Fund were inapplicable for the sheep farming sector, as he is aware, the sheep farming sector is one of the most affected sectors as a result of the UK's withdrawal from the EU; the additional financial provisions that he will provide to assist the sheep farming sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25924/23]
• 2023-05-17
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received correspondence from an organisation (details supplied) seeking his support and endorsement in the modifying of the reconstitution and underplanting scheme (RUS) to help farmers and landowners remove diseased ash trees that pose a safety risk to the public and road users on public roads; if the RUS scheme will be reconfigured to acknowledge the financial loss incurred; if he will consider the introduction of a financial support scheme to help farmers and landowners remove diseased ash trees for the safety of others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23536/23]
• 2023-05-16
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  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 516 of 9 May 2023, if he will direct officials in his Department to develop a case study for the provision of financial support through the Brexit Adjustment Reserve Fund, given that the sheep sector is one of the most affected sectors as a result of the UK's withdrawal from the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22839/23]
• 2023-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a support package for the sheep sector can be established through the Brexit Adjustment Reserve Fund, given the extreme financial pressures faced by sheep farmers in Ireland; if he will direct officials in his Department to develop a case study for the provision of financial support through the fund, given that the sheep sector is one of the most affected sectors as a result of the UK's withdrawal from the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21598/23]
• 2023-04-25
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1552 of 21 March 2023, if he will outline the number of engagements he or his officials have had with the relevant Algerian ministry regarding plans for a sanitary agreement to be established between Ireland and Algeria for dairy and infant formula; the most recent engagements he or his officials have had on the matter; if he will indicate the timelines for the implementation of the agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19117/23]
• 2023-04-25
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that the Coillte group is fully committed to keeping a company (details supplied) as a wholly owned subsidiary; if he will confirm that the Coillte group does not intend selling this subsidiary to an external third party; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19468/23]
• 2023-04-20
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide compensation, reconstitution grant aid and annual forest premiums for forest owners impacted with the fatal Ash dieback disease and if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18535/23]
• 2023-04-20
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has plans to provide immediate financial assistance to the private forestry sector given the failure of his Department to ensure the forestry programme was introduced in January 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18536/23]
• 2023-04-20
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will revisit the Nitrates Derogation Condition in accordance with the agreement reached with the European Commission to hold an interim review of the Nitrates Action Programme in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18534/23]
• 2023-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will take the time to review correspondence (details supplied) and request a derogation from legalisation that will forbid production of creosote fencing products from April 2023 because the market for timber fencing has not yet caught up with regulations, such a derogation would prevent a severe shortage of high-quality timber fencing products in the country and reduce the need to import product from outside of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16956/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are plans for a sanitary agreement to be established between Ireland and Algeria for dairy and infant formula; if the principle of such an agreement is a priority; the timelines for the implementation of the agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12841/23]
• 2023-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the number of reconstitution and underplanting scheme (ash dieback) applications received for the year 2022; the total amount approved; the total denied; the total remaining on hand yet to be approved from 2022, all in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2988/23]
• 2023-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has received communication from an association (details supplied); when this will be reviewed and a response issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3212/23]
• 2023-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the delivery of forestry licence targets in 2022 for both Coillte and the private forestry sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63810/22]
• 2023-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is a policy within his Department to restore farmer confidence in afforestation or to increase afforestation levels through joint ventures between the State’s forestry company and large-scale institutional investment funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63811/22]
• 2023-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he instructed Coillte to become involved in afforestation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63812/22]
• 2023-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any proposed arrangement between Coillte and a company (details supplied) requires ministerial approval or approval from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission or any other regulatory body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63813/22]
• 2023-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the attention of the director of forestry was drawn to the proposed new arrangement between Coillte and a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63814/22]
• 2023-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the assistance that will be provided to the estimated 16,000 farmers who were unable to participate in the agri-climate rural environmental scheme; if these most vulnerable low-income farmers will receive a gap payment in 2023, given that they will be unable to afford a year without support payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1083/23]
• 2022-11-16
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1269 of 8 November 2022, the number of times that his Department met with a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56804/22]
• 2022-11-16
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that representatives of an organisation (details supplied) are included in the industry led working group in regard to the request for tenders dated 12 October 2022 relating to services to prepare a business plan for the establishment of an Irish group forest certification scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56895/22]
• 2022-11-16
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that representatives of each existing group certification scheme in Ireland are included in the industry -led working group in regard to the request for tenders dated 12 October 2022 relating to services to prepare a business plan for the establishment of an Irish group forest certification scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56896/22]
• 2022-11-08
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of times his Department officials met with a person (details supplied) with regard to the regulatory review undertaken as part of project woodland, including dates, meeting type, in person or virtual, and any other attendees at the meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54716/22]
• 2022-10-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the implementation of the new forest programme; the reasons for the new forest programme's slow implementation (details supplied); the measures that are being taken to assist the forestry industry given the dire situation that is now developing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54064/22]
• 2022-10-18
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the environmental report grant as set out in circular 13/2022 will be payable on afforestation files planted in 2023 and payable in 2023 or afterwards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51813/22]
• 2022-10-18
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with the environmental report grant as set out in circular 13/2022, if the “report from an external ecologist” must be an NIS or does a habitat survey or ecology survey qualify for the environmental report grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51814/22]
• 2022-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Forestry Service can refuse a non-grant aid application for an afforestation licence on the basis of the productivity of the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48027/22]
• 2022-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Forestry Service can refuse a non-grant aid application for an afforestation licence based on species selection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48028/22]
• 2022-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a reaction and nitrogen survey is a requirement for non-grant aid application for an afforestation licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48029/22]
• 2022-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the basis on which the Forestry Service can decide that land is unplantable on a non-grant aid application for an afforestation licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48030/22]
• 2022-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the ash dieback RUS grant aid scheme is to be treated by applicants as a de-minimis payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47274/22]
• 2022-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated net VAT payment to applicants for the environmental report grant, per file, outlined in circular 13/2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47275/22]
• 2022-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the required legislation change will take place enabling the replacement species for the RUS scheme to be conifers on an area up to ten hectares; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47276/22]
• 2022-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there will be mandatory professional forester involvement in the small-scale tree planting scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47277/22]
• 2022-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if existing forestry woodland, if present on the farm, included in the Farm Sustainability Plan is to be completed on the generic land management for all ACRES applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47278/22]
• 2022-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the direct integration and compatibility mechanisms proposed for afforestation and the organic farming scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47279/22]
• 2022-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 647 of 14 September 2022, in stating that there is no licence requirement if a landowner wishes to remove some of this material from a site; if this is an unlicensed activity and that harvesting lop and top or brash from forestry harvesting sites is outside the scope of the felling licence system and requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47290/22]
• 2022-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 647 of 14 September 2022, if the Department standard or guideline or guidance document that forest-owners should review when harvesting lop and top or brash from harvesting sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47291/22]
• 2022-09-21
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 647 of 14 September 2022, in stating that removing lop and top or brash from site is not described in the standards for felling and reforestation, if harvesting lop and top and brash from forestry harvesting sites is outside of the scope of the standards for felling and reforestation of October 2019 and that the standards for felling and reforestation do not apply to such standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46215/22]
• 2022-09-21
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 647 of 14 September 2022, in stating that there is no licence requirement if a landowner wishes to remove some of this material from a site, if this is an unlicensed activity and that harvesting lop and top or brash from forestry harvesting sites is outside the scope of the felling licence system and requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46216/22]
• 2022-09-21
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 647 of 14 September 2022, if he will confirm the Department's standard or guideline or guidance document that forest owners should review when harvesting lop and top or brash from harvesting sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46217/22]
• 2022-09-14
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if harvesting lop and top or brash from forestry harvesting sites is permitted with the current standard for harvesting and replanting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44728/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will assist a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary who wants to return their plantations back into grassland for general agriculture purposes after a total fell of the plantation has been completed due to ash dieback; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42539/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will assist an organisation (details supplied) in County Tipperary that urgently requires emergency funding due to increased veterinary costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42599/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that no TB reactors will be killed in the north Tipperary region for the next four weeks (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40339/22]
• 2022-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of afforestation licences issued; the number of road licences issued;the number of tree felling licences issued; the number approved for the reconstitution and underplanting scheme since the forestry licensing plan was published at the start of 2022, by month, in tabular form; his views on whether the targets as per the forestry licensing plan will be achieved in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37758/22]
• 2022-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of afforestation licences awaiting assessment and approval; the number of road licences awaiting assessment and approval; the number of tree felling licences awaiting assessment and approval; the number of reconstitution and underplanting scheme applications awaiting assessment and approval; his views as to whether any accumulation in applications will be cleared in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37759/22]
• 2022-06-23
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will provide the necessary funding to pig farmers in respect of increased input costs, including in fuel, feed, fertiliser and energy; if he has received and reviewed the recently published document by an organisation (details supplied) concerning the pig industry in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33501/22]
• 2022-03-29
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has reviewed a jointly developed pig stability fund proposal (details supplied) which was commissioned by organisations; if he will support this proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16622/22]
• 2022-02-23
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the necessary funding will be provided to Tipperary County Council to employ a full-time horse warden or wardens to ensure the prevention of maltreatment of horses and ponies in the county and to further ensure the microchipping and passporting of all horses and ponies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10213/22]
• 2022-01-25
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of reconstitution and underplanting scheme applications submitted to his Department in 2021; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that no approvals for the scheme were issued in 2021, given many section 5 exemptions were forwarded by farmers as requested by his Department; the reason no reconstitution and underplanting scheme approvals were issued in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2874/22]
• 2022-01-25
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of afforestation licences issued in 2021; the total number of hectares planted; the number of afforestation licences issued by county; the number of hectares planted by county from January 2021 to December 2021; if he is satisfied with the number of hectares planted in 2021; his plans to expand afforestation in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2880/22]
• 2022-01-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that only 4,035 forestry licences were issued by his Department in 2021, which is well short of his Department's own target of 4,500 for 2021; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the figure of 4,035 is far below the of 7,000 licences the industry actually required; the number of forestry licences issued by county; the categories of each type of licence issued in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1343/22]
• 2022-01-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the target number of forestry licences his Department plans to issue in 2022; if he plans to invest additional resources in the Forest Service in order to reach the 7,000 licences required annually by the industry given the well documented additional resources invested into the Forest Service in 2020 and 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1344/22]
• 2021-12-16
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will give consideration to recommendations by a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62497/21]
• 2021-11-16
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1231 to 1239 of 2 November 2021, the number of reminders that have to be sent out and that have been sent out since 2 November 2021 when stating that his Department will shortly send out reminders to those who have not yet provided the information sought in reference to the further information letters sent out in June 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55687/21]
• 2021-11-16
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos, 1231 to 1239 of 2 November 2021, the number of reminders that are scheduled to be sent out in the week commencing 15 November 2021 when stating that his Department will shortly send out reminders to those who have not yet provided the information sought in reference to the further information letters sent out in June 2021; when all reminders will be actually sent out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55688/21]
• 2021-11-16
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1231 to 1239 of 2 November 2021, the number of such reminders for similar information that have been sent out by licence and scheme type in each week since 1 January 2019 when stating that his Department will shortly send out reminders to those who have not yet provided the information sought in reference to the further information letters sent out in June 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55689/21]
• 2021-11-16
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1231 to 1239 of 2 November 2021, the number of requests for further information by licence and scheme type sent out weekly since 1 January 2019 by licence and scheme type; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55690/21]
• 2021-11-16
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1231 to 1239 of 2 November 2021, if no reminders have been sent to applicants in circumstances in which the information sought in June 2021 has already been provided to his Department when stating that his Department will shortly send out reminders to those who have not yet provided the information sought in reference to the further information letters sent out in June 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55691/21]
• 2021-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 17 of 21 October 2021, the anticipated timeline for the outcome on potential alternatives to the current system in the discussions between his officials and their counterparts in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52925/21]
• 2021-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 17 of 21 October 2021, if an applicant proposes the use of a conifer nurse species, if his officials view this in the strictest sense of conifer species replacing broadleaf species in such instances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52926/21]
• 2021-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 17 of 21 October 2021, if his officials raised the specific issue of the disease status of the broadleaf crop with their counterparts in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in the drafting of the legislation given the requirement for planning does not take into account the disease status of the broadleaf crop; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52927/21]
• 2021-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 941 of 19 October 2021, if a harvest plan was a requirement of his Department when the files that were returned were received by his Department in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020; if a harvest plan was not a requirement, if his Department was entitled to return the files on the basis it did; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52928/21]
• 2021-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 941 of 19 October 2021, if 377 of the total number of 420 files of the equivalent of 90% of the files were submitted to his Department in 2019 and 2020; the reason these files were not returned to the applicants if sub-standard on receipt by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52929/21]
• 2021-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 941 of 19 October 2021, if greater than 53% of the files referred to were received by his Department in 2019 and were not sub-standard at the time of application as they were not returned to the applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52930/21]
• 2021-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 941 of 19 October 2021, if greater than 36% of the files referred to were received by his Department in 2020 and were not sub-standard at the time of application as they were not returned to the applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52931/21]
• 2021-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 941 of 19 October 2021, if greater than 7% of the files referred that were received by his Department in 2017 and 2018 and were not sub-standard at the time of application as they were not returned to the applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52932/21]
• 2021-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 941 of 19 October 2021, the reason it took until June 2021 to return files to applicants who had submitted files since May 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52933/21]
• 2021-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 941 of 19 October 2021, if his Department changed, modified or raised the standards required of licence applications between the period May 2017 and June 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52934/21]
• 2021-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 941 of 19 October 2021, if any changes to standards required of applicants for licence application contributed to the total of 420 licences returned to applicants by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52935/21]
• 2021-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 941 of 19 October 2021, if he is satisfied that a person (details supplied) presented a true, accurate, factual and complete account of the licences returned including any changes in standards by his Department in their evidence to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine in August 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52936/21]
• 2021-10-21
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an ash plantation is dead due to the ash dieback disease, if such a plantation requires a tree felling licence; the number of applications received and approved under the ash dieback RUS scheme since its launch; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51250/21]
• 2021-10-21
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if in relation to circular 5/2021, this means the silvicultural use of conifer species as a nurse species for broadleaf species is not allowable in the RUS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51246/21]
• 2021-10-21
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a dead tree or dead trees in either a farm or forest situation requires a tree felling licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51249/21]
• 2021-10-21
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Secretary General of his Department has followed through on their commitment at the recent Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture to discuss the issue of the requirement for planning permission on dead and dying ash crops as outlined in circular 5/2021 with their counterpart in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; if the Act took into consideration the fact that many ash crops are either dead, dying or rotting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51247/21]
• 2021-10-21
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has reviewed the proposals on the integration of forestry, tree planting, woodland creation, afforestation and woodland management into the CAP Strategic Plan as supplied by Forest Industries Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51248/21]
• 2021-10-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 679 of 21 September 2021, the dates on which the applications which were returned were received by his Department in tabular form; the reason such files were not returned to the applicants at the time of receipt of the applications if sub-standard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51237/21]
• 2021-10-07
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to introduce measures to address concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48770/21]
• 2021-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will extend the deadline for farmers to submit their Beep-S dung samples beyond 1 October 2021; if he will take into account that in 2020 the deadline to submit these samples was 1 November; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48529/21]
• 2021-09-21
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details involved in preparing an EIA further to circular 5 of 2021; the minimum anticipated cost of preparing an EIA for such dead or dying crops; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44520/21]
• 2021-09-21
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date on which files (details supplied) were received by the Forest Service of his Department in tabular form; the reason the files were not returned to the applicants if not up to the standard at the time of receipt of the application by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44521/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 634 of 13 July 2021, the level of grant aid and premium support and tax incentives specifically which is taken into account in the income foregone calculations, income from sale of carbon by forests owned by private entities and persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39362/21]
• 2021-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 355 of 30 June 2021, if all current members of the CAP Consultative Committee were invited onto the committee by him or his Department; the reason an organisation (details supplied) was not invited onto the committee at the outset; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37388/21]
• 2021-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 362 of 30 June 2021, the minimum level of annual afforestation necessary from 2021 to ensure the entire estate does not become a temporary source of carbon (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37389/21]
• 2021-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 366 and 367 of 30 June 2021, the reason there is no representative from the forestry sector on the CAP Consultative Committee given that afforestation is clearly the largest opportunity in the land use sector to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; the way the afforestation opportunity in the sequestration of carbon possibly can be delivered upon in the next CAP given the knowledge regarding the last CAP and inter alia the drop in afforestation during the term of GLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37390/21]
• 2021-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 346 of 30 June 2021, the number of times the Forest Policy Group chaired by the Minister of State has discussed forestry and specifically afforestation in the context of the next CAP and membership of the CAP Consultative Committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37391/21]
• 2021-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 505 and 506 of 1 July 2021, his plans to ensure better integration between the agri-environment schemes and the next forestry programme is achieved. [37394/21]
• 2021-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 332 to 334, inclusive, of 30 June 2021, when he will instruct his Department to seek the necessary permissions in view of his reply that to make the submissions public his Department would first have to seek the permission of the consultees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37395/21]
• 2021-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 335 of 30 June 2021, if it is planned to change the current definition of a forest as laid out in his answer (details supplied) in any new forestry regulations or in the proposed scheme to plant trees along rivers and watercourses to act as carbon sinks and interceptors of nutrients currently being prepared; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37396/21]
• 2021-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 336 of 30 June 2021, if riparian planting and any new scheme including REAP to plant trees along rivers and watercourses to act as carbon sinks and interceptors of nutrients currently being prepared in which the size of the planting is less than 0.1 hectares in size cannot be accounted and reported under Ireland’s international reporting requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37397/21]
• 2021-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a voluntary agreement was brought forward by a section or sections of the private sector using woodland carbon code as the basis for calculating sequestration rates; if that would preclude afforestation grant and premium support payment by his Department whilst accepting there is a distinct separation between the rights and value of carbon and the said grant support and also accepting the carbon accounting and reporting must be clear to avoid double counting for reporting purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37971/21]
• 2021-07-06
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review and assist a farmer (details supplied) in County Tipperary whose herd is affected by TB; if his Department will accept a veterinary scan as proof that reactor cows and in-calf heifers identified as having TB were in calf; if the veterinary scan can also be used to determine the amount due to the farmer under the TB eradication scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35987/21]
• 2021-07-06
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the current guidelines for the TB eradication scheme in cases in which a heifer cow is identified as been in calf; if the current guidelines in which a veterinary inspectorate at the meat factory are required to carry out pregnancy checks at post mortem on reactor cows and in-calf heifers can be substituted with a scan from a qualified veterinarian; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35988/21]
• 2021-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to visit any ash plantation in the immediate term during the growing season to see first-hand the rate at which ash plantations are dying and rotting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35607/21]
• 2021-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered issuing a health and safety warning to the public on walking in ash woods which are potentially infected by ash dieback, similar to that which his Department issues regarding fire danger; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35608/21]
• 2021-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 294, 295 and 296 of 27 May 2021, if the Forestry Service district inspectors and Forestry Service ecologists will be involved in the approval and inspection of areas planted along riparian margins which is part of the new scheme to plant trees along rivers and watercourses to act as carbon sinks and interceptors of nutrients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35609/21]
• 2021-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 294, 295 and 296 of 27 May 2021, the scale of the introduction of a scheme to promote at scale the planting of trees along riparian margins that is anticipated in terms of hectares planted; if it is envisaged that this new scheme will be part of the next CAP; if not, if it will be completely removed from the next CAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35610/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 197, 198, 199 and 203 of 19 May 2021, if he will complete a needs analysis survey of the industry to develop metrics of the requirements for licensing and scheme approvals in the private sector which can inform project woodland given that it is not possible to say with any certainty, the number of licenses that must issue to achieve various targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35020/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209 and 210 of 19 May 2021, if he has informed working group 2 of the failure in public consultation procedures that occurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35021/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 204 205, 206, 207,208, 209 and 210, of 19 May 2021, if, given that many of the comments were just suggested textual changes to improve the practical implementation of various measure set out in the documents; the reason for not releasing the submissions received to the public domain to prove same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35022/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209 and 210 of 19 May 2021, if any TFL issued with conditionality of adhering to the standards for felling and reafforestation are enforceable by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35023/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 358 and 359 of 20 May 2021, if the proposed scheme to plant trees along rivers and watercourses to act as carbon sinks and interceptors of nutrients currently being prepared by the Minister for State will be considered afforestation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35024/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 358 and 359 of 20 May 2021, if the proposed scheme to plant trees along rivers and watercourses to act as carbon sinks and interceptors of nutrients currently being prepared by the Minister for State will facilitate the owner of the land being the beneficial owner of the carbon and environmental services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35025/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to revise the ash dieback reconstitution and underplanting scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35026/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 544, 545, 546, 547, 548, 549, 550, 551, 552 and 553 of 25 May 2021, if no commitment is given by his Department in the farmers charter or any other Departmental protocol that commits his Department to writing directly to each applicant for the reconstitution and underplanting scheme to update them on their application and the requirements of circular 5 21 on their application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35027/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 544, 545, 546, 547, 548, 549, 550, 551, 552 and 553 of 25 May 2021, if he informed the registered foresters that they are expected to revert to and inform the landowner applicants for the reconstitution and underplanting scheme of the requirements of the circular and the way a specific application may be impacted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35028/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 544, 545, 546, 547, 548, 549, 550, 551, 552 and 553 of 25 May 2021, the budget available for the reconstitution and underplanting scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35029/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 544, 545, 546,547, 548, 549, 550, 551, 552 and 553 of 25 May 2021, the total area of ash in the country; the estimated area of ash excluded from the reconstitution and underplanting scheme due to age, height and disease infection rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35030/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the State has assumed the ownership or beneficial interest or any other rights to all or any of the carbon sequestered in Irish forests both private and public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35031/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether it is legitimate for a landowner or trust to afforest land under his Department’s afforestation grant and premium scheme and to retain ownership or claim or beneficial interest in the carbon sequestered on the same land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35032/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether it is legitimate for a landowner or trust to afforest land on a non-grant-aid basis and to retain the ownership or claim or beneficial interest in the carbon sequestered on the same land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35033/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the attendance by his officials at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Marine on 27 May 2021, if the detailed calculations used by his officials in determining the stated total volume licensed for both 2020 and 2021 in both the private sector and Coillte will be provided; the quantity of the stated volume available for harvesting in both 2020 and 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35034/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the attendance by his officials at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Marine on 27 May 2021, the person or body who has represented the forestry industry on the CAP consultative committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35035/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who planted and afforested in each of the previous five years to GLAS, that is, 2010 to 2014, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35037/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of unique farmer applicants for the REPS per year while it was in operation or since its launch in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35038/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applicants for REPS by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35059/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that planted and afforested in each year for the duration of REPS in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35060/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there was a penalty or claw back of moneys, grant or scheme payments to farmers who were in REPS that decided to convert a part of their farm to forestry during the duration of their REPS plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35061/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number farmers in GLAS that did not take the GLAS extension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35062/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if 40% of pillar 1 expenditure must contribute towards climate change objectives and at least 30% of Rural Development Plan must focus on specific environmental and climate related objectives in accordance with the Cap Strategic Plan draft regulations; if afforestation of areas greater than 0.1 hectares and over can contribute towards these objectives; if afforestation should form a central plank of the CSP and agri-environment schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35063/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will undertake a needs analysis of forest owners whose forests have been infected with ash dieback; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35064/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the persons or bodies that provided forestry and specifically afforestation opportunity integration input into the terms and conditions of the REAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35076/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will publish the policy analysis carried out by his Department on the impact GLAS has had on afforestation uptake rates and on the afforestation grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35077/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 279 of 27 May 2021, his views on whether the tree and hedge planting will have a significant impact on meeting the climate change objectives; the metrics or targets for these particular activities under the scheme in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35078/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 283 and 288 of 27 May 2021, the total area of land on a per county basis committed to the GLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35079/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the SWOT analysis and needs assessment for the CSP and the eco scheme and agri-environment referred to in his answer to Parliamentary Question No. 292 of 27 May 2021 took account of the detail and table in the replies to Parliamentary Question Nos. 283 and 288 of 27 May 2021 and correspondingly the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 291 of 27 May 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35080/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual afforestation rate necessary per annum from 2021 to 2060 to sustain the ability of the national forest estate to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35081/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if officials in his Department were ever contacted by phone, letter, electronically, questioned formally or informally, under caution or asked to make a statement by An Garda Síochána in relation to milk quota racketeering in respect of a person (details supplied); if his Department is aware of this case; the efforts his Department has taken to assist the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35084/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the most recent COFORD advice on afforestation rates necessary on an annual basis from 2020 to achieve climate change targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35100/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual afforestation rate necessary to achieve the carbon sequestration and other objectives for forestry as identified in the Teagasc MACC curve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35101/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual afforestation rate Teagasc has identified in order that forestry will not remain a carbon sink in the MACC curve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35102/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of unique farmer applicants for the AEOS per year while it was in operation or since its launch in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35103/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of AEOS applicants by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35104/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that planted and afforested in each year for the duration of AEOS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35105/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there was any penalty or claw back of moneys, grant or scheme payments to farmers who were in AEOS who decided to convert a part of their farm to forestry during the duration of their AEOS plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35156/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the policy analysis or reasoning for the introduction of FEPS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35157/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 285 of 27 May 2021, the number of LPIS and the associated area of these LPIS that had linear and point actions for GLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35158/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 285 of 27 May 2021, if LPIS in GLAS that had linear and point actions detailed are effectively sterilised from afforestation even though there are only linear and point actions associated with the parcel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35159/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 285 of 27 May 2021, the expected or planned for number of applicants to his Department in new agri-environmental schemes under both pillar 1 and pillar 2 funding in the next CAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35160/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total area of low input permanent pasture under the GLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35214/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 191 and 192 of 19 May 2021, if the analysis of the number of GLAS participants that afforested a part of their farm during the duration of GLAS has been completed and is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35215/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the anticipated area the 5,000 successful applicants to REAP will afforest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35216/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total area now sterilised to afforestation in the 5,000 successful applicants to the REAP scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35217/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the attention of his Department has been drawn to the international trade in voluntary carbon offsets; if he plans to develop procedures and protocols similar to that which exist in the UK to enable farm forest owners to sell voluntary carbon offsets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35219/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 191 and 192 of 19 May 2021, if the assistant secretary with responsibility for GLAS is also responsible for forestry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28973/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the policy analysis carried out by his Department on the impact GLAS has had on afforestation uptake rates, due to the fact that farmer planting undertook the most serious decline in the history of the scheme during the same time period as GLAS; the policy analysis that was completed by his Department on the impact of GLAS on the afforestation grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28974/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 191 and 192 of 19 May 2021, if he is satisfied that no changes to the GLAS terms and conditions and structure or system are necessary or planned in REAP or any new environmental or eco scheme in the next CAP to enhance the compatibility of afforestation and such environmental or eco schemes in the next CAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28975/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 191 and 192, of 19 May 2021, the total number of unique farmer applications on an annual basis for the basic payment scheme since the launch of GLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28976/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 191 and 192, of 19 May 2021, the total number of individual LPIS plots or parcels submitted under the basic payments scheme each year since the launch of GLAS in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28977/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 191 and 192, of 19 May 2021, the total area applied for basic payment payments on an annual basis since the launch of GLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28978/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 191 and 192, of 19 May 2021, the total number of unique farmer applicants for the GLAS scheme per year since its launch in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28979/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 191 and 192 of 19 May 2021, the total number of individual LPIS plots or parcels in GLAS for each year since its launch in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28980/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 191 and 192 of 19 May 2021, the total LPIS area under which GLAS actions are attached on a per year basis since the GLAS was launched in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28981/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 191 and 192 of 19 May 2021, if the total LPIS area under which GLAS actions are attached are excluded from afforestation opportunity for the applicant; if such applicants are forced to pay back the monies received on the actions under the GLAS in cases in which they wish or need to afforest parcels attached or under the terms and conditions of the GLAS scheme; his views on whether this serves as a major disincentive to afforestation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28982/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 191 and 192 of 19 May 2021, if LPIS plots or parcels in GLAS are not available for afforestation opportunities for farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28983/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 191 and 192 of 19 May 2021, the number of applicants for GLAS by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28984/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 191 and 192 of 19 May 2021, the number of applicants for the basic payments scheme by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28985/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 191 and 192 of 19 May 2021, the main farming activity that is, dairy, beef, sheep, tillage and other in percentage terms of the applicants for GLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28986/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 191 and 192 of 19 May 2021, the number of farmers that afforested each year since the launch of GLAS in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28987/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a SWAT analysis has been carried out of the compatibility of the present terms and conditions and structure of the GLAS eco scheme with afforestation; if so, if the results of such a SWAT analysis are being considered in the design, terms and conditions of any new eco schemes in the next CAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28988/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if complementary environmental measures on new afforestation projects can be funded in any new agri environmental scheme under the CAP whilst the forestry programme could be delivered entirely separately from the CAP strategic plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28989/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos, 359 and 358, of 20 May 2021, if any proposed planting of trees less than 0.1 hectares is considered a plan or a project and is subject to screening and appropriate assessment in the same manner as forestry currently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28990/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos, 359 and 358, of 20 May 2021, if the private forestry sector and specifically the foresters registered with his Department and registered ecologists and an organisation (details supplied) will be involved in developing the scheme terms and conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28991/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos, 359 and 358 of 20 May 2021, if he plans to exclude mandatory Department registered professional forester and ecologist involvement from the scheme to plant trees along rivers and watercourses to act as carbon sinks and interceptors of nutrients currently being prepared by the Minister of State in cases in which any proposed planting of trees is less than 0.1 hectares; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28992/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question number 193 of 19 May 2021, the person or body that will provide the sufficient training and support to the REAP participants and agents to carry out all works involved in the project specifically in relation to tree planting; if plans to exclude mandatory professional foresters many of whom are represented in their profession by an organisation (details supplied) from the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28994/21]
• 2021-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his Department will write to each applicant that has lodged an application under the existing ash dieback reconstitution and underplanting scheme and inform them of the contents of circular 5 of 2021 and the way it will affect their individual application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27703/21]
• 2021-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will instruct his officials to organise information and training events for the industry on the existing ash dieback reconstitution and underplanting scheme particularly given the recent new rules associated with the scheme contained in circular 5 of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27704/21]
• 2021-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will instruct his officials to organise information and training events on the existing ash dieback reconstitution and underplanting scheme for forest owners seriously impacted by both the ash dieback disease and the contents of circular 5 of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27705/21]
• 2021-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm his continued confidence and support for the existing ash dieback reconstitution and underplanting scheme; his views on whether the scheme as currently constituted allowing for the new rules in circular 5 of 2021 is fit for purpose; if it has his full support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27706/21]
• 2021-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of applications under the ash dieback reconstitution and underplanting scheme that have been approved since the launch of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27707/21]
• 2021-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the target for approval of applications by number and area under the existing ash dieback reconstitution and underplanting scheme before the end of December 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27708/21]
• 2021-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he sought a report from a qualified professional on the potential health and safety issues associated with harvesting and recreational activities close to or beside dead and dying ash, both plantations and roadside trees impacted by ash dieback; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27709/21]
• 2021-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current impact of ash dieback; the rate of spread across the country; and the position of his Department as to the viability of ash trees in forests and individual trees infected by ash dieback. [27710/21]
• 2021-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current information on the incidence of rot and decay in trees infected with ash dieback; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27711/21]
• 2021-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a Forest Service inspector or inspector of his Department has raised concerns over the practicality or operational feasibility or expressed any negative concerns to senior management within his Department on the existing ash dieback reconstitution and underplanting scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27712/21]
• 2021-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is planned to exclude professional registered foresters from the scheme to plant trees along rivers and watercourses to act as carbon sinks and interceptors of nutrients currently being prepared by the Minister of State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27188/21]
• 2021-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is planned to get external expertise and registered foresters to assist his staff in developing the scheme to plant trees along rivers and watercourses to act as carbon sinks and interceptors of nutrients currently being prepared by the Minister of State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27189/21]
• 2021-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to circular 5 of 2021, clarification regarding ash dieback scheme and planning permission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27190/21]
• 2021-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department was not aware of the issues in relation to planning permission when developing and ultimately issuing the RUS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27191/21]
• 2021-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are possible mechanisms in the Forestry Act 2014 that take account of the fact that the ash crops are either dying or dead and as such are not subject to the rules as laid out in circular 5/2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27192/21]
• 2021-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to develop a process with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage that takes account of the fact that ash trees are either dead or dying and rotting and that the process and procedure as laid out in circular 5 of 2021 does not take account of this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27193/21]
• 2021-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that ash plantations subject to ash dieback, which are either dead or dying and rotting are now a very serious health and safety trap for owners, contractors and the public and the contents of circular 5 of 2021 in view of the performance of his Department in issuing approvals in the RUS scheme to date does nothing other than add to the health and safety issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27194/21]
• 2021-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to revisit the existing academically excellent but operationally nonsensical and impractical RUS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27195/21]
• 2021-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is on target to date to achieve the stated licensing output target of 4,500 licences; if not, he size of the delay in relation in achieving the target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27196/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1991 of 24 March 2021, if he regards the GLAS and afforestation schemes as complementary schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27083/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1991 of 24 March 2021, the number of participants in GLAS that afforested a part of their holding under the afforestation scheme in each year since the launch of the scheme in tabular form; the percentage of participants in the GLAS scheme that afforested a part of their farm under the afforestation scheme in each year since the start of the scheme; if he considers this a satisfactory complementary association; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27084/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1991 of 24 March 2021, if he plans to have a mandatory professional forester involvement in the proposed planting of trees initiative outlined in his response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27085/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1990 and 1993 of 24 March 2021, the percentage of the pillar 1 and pillar 2 funding of the new CAP which must be disbursed on agri-environmental measures; the amount per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27086/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1990 and 1993 of 24 March 2021, the cost-benefit analysis and all other associated studies which led to the decision of his Department that the forestry programme will be delivered entirely separately from the CAP strategic plan and will be subject to new state aid rules rather than the requirements of the CSP regulations; the way in which the private forestry sector including farmers will not be disadvantaged as a result of this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27088/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1989 and 1992 of 24 March 2021 the declared internal changes, training and increased assistance to ecologists in the preparation of files, improved IT resources for ecologists and other system improvements will deliver in files per week and projected percentage increase of output; the date from which this increased output will be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27089/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1995 of 24 March 2021, if he will confirm that his reply again only spoke to targets as opposed to the question asked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27090/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1995 of 24 March 2021, the percentage of the private sector licence requirement that has been issued in view of the fact that Coillte has already received nearly 100% of its licensing requirements for 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27091/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1995 of 24 March 2021, if it is the case that his Department does not know the number of licence and scheme approvals it must issue in order to deliver on Government targets and industry requirements; his views on whether he should task his senior officials to determine these key planning metrics immediately with a short timeframe to revert with actualities rather than base assumptions and soft targets that his officials are incapable of delivering on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27092/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1990 and 1993 of 24 March 2021, the stakeholder organisations that have representation on both the CAP post-2020 consultative committee and the forestry policy group in tabular form; the overlap between the representatives on both the CAP post-2020 consultative committee and the forestry policy group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27095/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1990 and 1993 of 24 March 2021, the engagement with the forestry sector to date given that his Department is also engaging bilaterally with the forestry sector on the CAP in tabular form; the persons from his Department and from the forestry sector that have been involved in such bilateral discussions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27096/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1990 and 1993 of 24 March 2021, if his officials have developed proposals to integrate afforestation into organic farming initiatives as part of the CSP in view of his confidence that the interlinkages are very much understood; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27097/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1015 of 10 March 2021, the length of time it took his Department to approve the licences comprising this 4,500 hectares; the length of time from application to approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27098/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1284, 1285, 1286 and 1287 of 31 March 2021, if his Department followed the Consultation Principles and Guidance as published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform dated November 2016 particularly in regard to providing feedback as recommended on page 14 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27101/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1284, 1285, 1286 and 1287 of 31 March 2021, if he will publish the comments received from stakeholders as referred to in his reply on his Department’s website and make available the link to the published comments in his reply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27103/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1284, 1285, 1286 and 1287 of 31 March 2021, if he will direct his senior management to issue a circular to the industry clarifying the present position of the consultation process regarding the standard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27104/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1284, 1285, 1286 and 1287 of 31 March 2021, the textual changes as referred to in his reply in a manner which will allow comparison with the original text in the standard in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27105/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1284, 1285, 1286 and 1287 of 31 March 2021, the date he informed the specific working group in the project woodland groupings of his requirement in relation to the standards for felling and reforestation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27106/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1284, 1285, 1286 and 1287 of 31 March 2021, if this deviation from the correct consultation process has occurred in previous consultation processes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27107/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1284, 1285, 1286 and 1287 of 31 March 2021, if the board of project woodland is aware of the deviation from the correct consultation process in this instance; if he will bring the matter to the attention of the board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27108/21]
• 2021-03-31
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the interim standards for felling and reforestation October 2019 were converted to actual standards; when the industry was notified of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17302/21]
• 2021-03-31
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of submissions that were received by his Department during the consultation period on the interim standards for felling and reforestation October 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17303/21]
• 2021-03-31
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of submissions received by his Department on the interim standards for felling and reforestation October 2019 during the consultation period that pointed out impracticalities and operational impossibilities and unrealistic requirements in the standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17304/21]
• 2021-03-31
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department take notice or regard of the submissions received during the consultation period in relation to the interim standards for felling and reforestation October 2019 which appear to have been converted to actual standards following a consultation period; the way this notice or regard was translated into the standards that now prevail; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17305/21]
• 2021-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the capacity output if the number of licences issued for afforestation, roads and private felling per week by the forest service of his Department as reflected in the weekly dashboard is not capacity output under its current resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15011/21]
• 2021-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1016 of 10 March 2021, if he is stating that the forestry sector is not a relevant stakeholder with regard to the CAP strategic plan; if the forest sector, which is a section of his Department, is not a part of the CAP process regardless of the way in which it is funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15012/21]
• 2021-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1014 of 10 March 2021, his views on whether not including afforestation initiatives in the pilot agri-environment scheme will further disincentivise afforestation among the farming community; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the GLAS and afforestation schemes were and remain competing schemes and were not complementary to each other and that this fact contributed significantly to the demise of the afforestation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15013/21]
• 2021-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the number of licences issued for afforestation, roads and private felling per week by the forest service of his Department as reflected in the weekly dashboard is the actual capacity output of his Department under its current resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15014/21]
• 2021-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1016 of 10 March 2021, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that he has excluded the entire private forestry sector and appears to be reliant on his officials who have presided over the demise of the current forestry programme under the current CAP in his reference to all relevant stakeholders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15015/21]
• 2021-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of weekly full-time equivalent ecologists working in the forest service of his Department since June 2019 including the ecologists who are subcontracted by the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15017/21]
• 2021-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1015 of 10 March 2021, if he will review the answer provided given that the question did not ask for the departmental target but the number of licence and scheme approvals his Department must issue each year in order to deliver on targets; if he is stating that the target of 4,500 new licences in 2021 is sufficient to meet targets for forestry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15018/21]
• 2021-03-10
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if afforestation initiatives will be included in the pilot agri-environment scheme being developed by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12830/21]
• 2021-03-10
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of licence and scheme approvals his Department must issue each year in order to deliver on targets in relation to schemes (details supplied); the number for each licence and scheme type individually in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12831/21]
• 2021-03-10
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the person or body responsible for representing forestry and particularly afforestation on the present CAP post-2020 consultative committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12832/21]
• 2021-02-03
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Forestry (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 do not provide for a transitional arrangement in respect of foresters who applied for planning permission prior to and received planning permission after the introduction of the regulations on 7 February 2020; his plans to address the absence of such a transitional arrangement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5444/21]
• 2020-11-12
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a refusal for the beef finisher scheme was issued to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary despite the applicant being able to provide evidence they are farming a holding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35815/20]
• 2019-09-26
  VOTE
  Agriculture

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 38–84
• 2019-06-18
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the dissolution of a farming partnership into a limited company has caused the dissolving of a GLAS contract (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25095/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if measures will be introduced to allow applications for funding to construct underpasses for the movement of livestock in view of the fact that it is a health and safety issue for farmers and road users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19131/19]
• 2019-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the situation regarding young farmers who are in a farming partnership will be clarified regarding their eligibility to apply for entitlements on an annual basis from the national reserve in cases in which the young farmers have their own herd number with an off-farm income which is less than €40,000 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6842/19]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a new pension scheme for workers of companies (details supplied) that was agreed with management and unions of the Coillte-owned facility earlier in 2018 will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52750/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if officials in his Department were in a position to issue a decision to an application submitted by a company (details supplied) that has applied for TAMS grant approval of its products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32969/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department was in a position to expedite the first round of payments of the 2018 basic payment scheme to allow farmers mitigate and prepare in advance of a potential fodder shortage in winter 2018 (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that farmers are already using their first cut of tillage to feed animals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33275/18]
• 2017-11-29
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will request dairy co-operators to organise a scheme for the purchase of generators by dairy farmers; his plans to provide low interest loans for such a scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50850/17]
• 2017-05-04
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the current crisis in the greyhound industry which is administered by the Irish Greyhound Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21384/17]
• 2017-05-03
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20984/17]
• 2016-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing issue of commonages claims throughout County Tipperary due to a lack of a chairperson for the commonage implementation committee; when the appointment of a replacement chairperson for this committee will be envisaged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32862/16]
• 2016-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to expedite payment of entitlements to a person (details supplied) in County Longford who leased land and entitlements. [4877/16]
• 2015-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will confirm whether all successful applicants for the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme 2 under the rural development programme 2014-20, which provides grants to farmers to build or improve a specified range of farm buildings and equipment on their holdings, will receive approval in early December 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43353/15]