502. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of fines issued under the Control of Dogs Acts in each of the years 2020 to 2024, by local authority. [49754/25]
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503. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average fine currently applied for breaches of dog control regulations; if he considers this level of sanction to be an adequate deterrent and if he has plans to increase fine levels. [49755/25]
504. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are national guidelines or statutory requirements governing the patrol frequency of dog wardens in public parks and other amenity spaces; and if not, whether he will consider introducing same. [49756/25]
505. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has conducted any review of the effectiveness of the control of dogs Acts; and if he will consider a full review in light of rising public concern about dog control. [49757/25]
506. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status of the 11,686 non-coursing greyhounds whose year of birth was 2021 who were being tracked on Rásaíocht Con Éireann’s Traceability System (RCÉTS) as of 13 June 2025 giving a detailed breakdown into active, inactive, exported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49775/25]
507. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status of the 10,805 non-coursing greyhounds whose year of birth was 2022 who were being tracked on Rásaíocht Con Éireann’s Traceability System (RCÉTS) as of 13 June 2025 giving a detailed breakdown into active, inactive, exported and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49776/25]
508. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status of the 8,022 non-coursing greyhounds whose year of birth was 2023 who were being tracked on Rásaíocht Con Éireann's Traceability System (RCÉTS) as of 13 June 2025 giving a detailed breakdown into active, inactive, exported and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49777/25]
509. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE superintending veterinary inspector and senior superintending veterinary inspectors employed by his Department as of 10 September 2025; if he will provide the same figures as of 30 September 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49807/25]
510. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider a review of his Departments approach to online restricted herd sales, in order that marts are allowed to operate on the same terms as private sales to CFUs; if he will move to 60 days; if so, when (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49868/25]
513. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2024 and 2025 ACRES payment is expected to issue to a farm partnership (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50292/25]
514. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the impending closure of an animal rehabilitation centre (details supplied); if his Department has plans for the building, stables and lands which was used by the centre given its importance to the local community as well as its regional work; and if he will work with the organisation to determine if funding will be fo…
515. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) can expect to have their delayed forest premia payments made to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50357/25]
516. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of expenditure on off-site storage solutions for the past five years to date; if he will provide a breakdown of items (details supplied) not stored in his Department on annual basis. [50483/25]
517. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether additional enforcement measures are being considered in partnership with local authorities in relation to uncontrolled dogs in public places. [50575/25]
310. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce financial support for tillage farmers, considering the income crisis currently being faced by the sector due to low grain prices and high costs of production [49329/25]
311. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a premium will be payable to persons who as a result of storm Éowyn have to replant their forest under the new scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49341/25]
312. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds registered at whelping stage with the Irish Coursing Club whose year of birth was 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49362/25]
313. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds registered at microchipping stage with the Irish Coursing Club whose year of birth was 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49363/25]
314. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds entered at microchipping stage on the Rásaíocht Con Éireann Traceability System whose year of birth was 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49364/25]
315. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider providing funding to an association (details supplied) for the purchase of essential equipment. [49407/25]
316. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the arrangements that are in place to ensure that regional ISPCA facilities, such as the Donegal Animal Rehabilitation Centre, are safeguarded under the new National SPCA structure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49460/25]
317. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the rollout of the badger BCG vaccination programme as part of the national bovine TB eradication strategy; the number of badgers vaccinated in each of the past three years; the number culled over the same period; the geographic areas where vaccination is currently taking place; the expected timeline …
943. Deputy James O'Connor asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if grants will be available in the near future similar to the Brexit adjustment reserve local authority marine infrastructure scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47715/25]
944. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide the web links to his Department’s Q1 2025 and Q2 2025 published reports of procurement-related payments or purchase orders over €20,000 (in line with the FOI model publication scheme requirements); to confirm whether these reports have been published in full and are publicly accessible; and to state the planned publication dat…
945. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will publish the procurement related payment reports (details supplied) in machine-readable formats such as CSV or excel on a quarterly basis, in line with open data standards; if not, the legal, technical, or operational constraints that prevent compliance with the requirement under S.I. No. 376/2021 to provide such do…