Parliamentary questions

889. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine he reason applications for TAMS 3 for solar PV grants that have an apparent poor success rate; if he can provide data showing the total number of applications; the total number of grants awarded; the total value of same in 2024 and 2025; the breakdown of grants, by percentage awarded to dairy, sheep, beef and t…

890. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the enactment of the Protection of the Native Irish Honeybee Bill 2021 to ensure the protection of native species; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9669/26]

891. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9794/26]

892. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a mussel seed fishery will be opened (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9826/26]

893. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the Protection of the Native Irish Honey Bee Bill 2021 (details supplied); whether the review has concluded; his plans to publish the research and findings; whether his Department now considers that there exists a robust scientific and legal basis for legislative action; and whether the Government pl…

894. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under his remit. [10147/26]

895. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details on the level of monitoring and inspections of the large EU registered pelagic freezer trawlers Dutch owned operating off the Irish coast before Christmas 2025, and targeting horse mackerel, which has taken place; and the landings made by these vessels including bycatches of boarfish. [1018…

896. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on his Departments research and analysis of the current closed period model for the restriction of slurry and chemical fertiliser; if issues have been highlighted by farmers to his Department in relation to this model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10190/26]

897. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to the provision of a more flexible model of the closed period for the restriction of slurry and chemical fertiliser, in order that farmers can work with Ireland’s unpredictable weather conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10191/26]

898. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to the provision of a condition based model on a computer or smart phone application in conjunction with Met Éireann rainfall reports (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10192/26]

899. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the greyhound track attendance statistics for 2025, covering both Greyhound Racing Ireland tracks and private tracks; and the breakdown of the figures, by attendance at each track, type of entry, that is, paid entry, free entry, entry by adults, children, staff, owners and trainers, bookma…

900. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of reported incidents of inappropriate slurry spreading over the past year in each county; the outcome of investigations, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10266/26]

901. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the recent animal cruelty reports due to illegal harness racing and sulky racing that is currently happening on Irish roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10441/26]

334. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a publicly accessible system of traceability to track imported products of animal origin for human consumption from farm to fork: if not, whether his Department will consider developing such a system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8800/26]

335. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of common health entry documents for Products of Animal Origin (CHED P) were processed by his Department, by designated border control post of entry and third party country of origin for the years 2024 and 2025 and to date in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8801/26]

336. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of sanitary and phytosanitary checks which were carried out at designated border control posts here on imports covered by common health entry documents for products of animal origin, by country of origin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8802/26]

337. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the person or body which logs and is responsible for all types of meat imports to Ireland; the person or body which tracks it from farm to fork; the location it is kept; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8803/26]

338. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the gross tonnage of imports processed under the common health entry documents for products of animal origin (CHED P), by designated border control post of entry and third party country of origin for the years 2024 and 2025 and to date in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8804/26]

339. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if force majeure will be accepted for 2023 and 2024 BISS and ANC applications from a farmer in County Kerry (details supplied) following the submission of medical evidence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8964/26]

340. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision will issue on a BISS and ANC dual claim (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8965/26]

341. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide urgent funding to Kerry social farming to allow this amazing initiative to grow and excel across County Kerry; if he will roll-out social farming across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9107/26]

843. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons who attained a green cert qualification from an agricultural college in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [8150/26]

844. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are plans to amend S.I. No. 307/2006 to extend mandatory country-of-origin labelling to poultry, pork and lamb in the hospitality and catering sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7351/26]

845. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail the steps his Department is taking to ensure that processed meat products, such as chicken Kievs or pre-prepared meals, cannot use ‘Product of Ireland’ branding if the primary meat ingredient was hatched, reared or slaughtered in a non-EU country; and if he will address the impact of ‘substantial transformat…

846. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine If he will review the governance structure of Bord Bia to include a statutory ‘conflict of interest’ clause that prohibits any board member from having a commercial interest in the importation of meat products from third countries that do not meet Irish production standards; and if he will make a statement on the matt…