1246. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to address,as a matter of priority, the concerns of tens of thousands of farmers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10772/25]
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1247. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the current TAMS scheme, or TAMS schemes offered heretofore, provides for stock-proof barbed wire fencing for cattle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10774/25]
1248. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has viewed the Charities Regulators Report 2024 into a charity (details supplied); if further payments will be made to the charity in advance of the publication of the report; if the €200,000 advanced to the charity in August 2024 was sanctioned without any knowledge of the details of the report; and if he will ma…
1249. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the purpose of the advanced grant of €200,000 to a charity (details supplied) in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10859/25]
1250. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to list all current trials and research under way by bodies under his aegis into the use of seaweed supplements for the reduction of methane in ruminants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10860/25]
1251. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports that exist for seaweed supplement producers; the way in which the Government intends to protect and develop the national seaweed sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10861/25]
1252. Deputy Natasha Newsome Drennan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in each county awaiting ACRES payments for 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10890/25]
1253. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a passport application (details supplied) for a foal out of the mare, submitted in June 2024 to Horse Sport Ireland. [10893/25]
1254. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of significant delays in processing equine passport applications; the number of outstanding 2024 applications for equine passports; the average processing time for applications; and the steps being taken to address delays, given the impact on equine sales and exports. [10894/25]
1255. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of ACRES scheme payments for a person (details supplied); when the balance of payment due for 2023 is expected; and the timeline for payment for 2024. [10895/25]
1256. Deputy Natasha Newsome Drennan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an ACRES payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10902/25]
1257. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all persons who are recruited to work in his Department and all the related agencies of his Department are fully vetted before they are employed by his Department and-or said agencies. [11077/25]
1258. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of horses being put in subpar conditions in Limerick city, which has led to the deaths of these animals; his plans to address this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11125/25]
1259. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reverse the approach to the Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017; if the Bill will be allowed to progress in 2025, if re-introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11128/25]
1260. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine , further to Parliamentary Question No. 1095 of 22 January 2025, if he will provide a breakdown of the amounts paid to hunts by Horse Racing Ireland that is prize money, administration grants and so on; the number of point-to-point race meetings and races that are covered by the funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11…
1261. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a passport system is currently in place or will be introduced for the ownership of horses, similar to the registration system for other animals, with his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11144/25]
1262. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to expedite a payment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11170/25]
1263. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the preparation of the application for substitute consent to An Bord Pleanála for the development of the deep-water quay project at Ros a Mhíl, County Galway. [11178/25]
1264. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a young farmer (details supplied) who applied for TAMS 3 young farmers in 2024, following a successful application for national reserve and complementary income for young farmers in 2023, and who has a 33% shareholding in the family farm, has now been refused due to the share type and denied young farmer funding; and if h…
1265. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has been in contact with the European Commission regarding the nitrates derogation; if so, what specifically that contact has entailed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11455/25]
1266. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has met with the European Commission to discuss an extension of the nitrates derogation for Ireland; if so, what was discussed at those meetings and what the outcomes of those meetings were; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11456/25]
1267. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in cases in which farmers are in a partnership if farm payments can be paid to all partners equally as opposed to one partner; the steps available to a farmer in a partnership where one partner received the payment but is not paying it out to the other partners in the partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11494/…
1268. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with his Department. [11512/25]
1269. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the publication of the results from the survey on the national overview of the provision of allotments and community gardens across Ireland that was issued to local authorities in February 2024, including when the full results from the survey will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11570/…
1270. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of dogs exported from Ireland for commercial sale in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11586/25]