Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

1. The total cost to the Department of the rapid antigen testing programme in meat plants and the number of tests used in this setting? 2. All correspondence between the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health in relation to the use of antigen tests in meat plants between January 1st and September 26th. 3. All correspondence between Minister McConalogue and Minister Donnelly between January1st and September 26th relating to the use of rapid antigen tests in meat factories.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

All correspondence between the DAFM and HSE on April 9th of 2021 relating the hand sanitiser/gel: • Any documentation/forms submitted or resulting from an application • Any correspondence/reports/tables associated with such email correspondence indicating if Supplier, Brand, Stock levels, Comments, or if such stock has been quarantined relating to the HSE ownership of such hand sanitiser/gel

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

A meeting took place recently between DAFM and The Irish Co-operative Organisation Society Ltd https://www.lobbying.ie/return/77357/the-irish-co-operative-organisation-society-ltd Could I please have a copy of the minutes of the meeting?

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Records of communication between the department and the XXX and XXX between the dates of August 1 2021 and Septeember 28 2021.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Can I request under freedom of information act the number of complaints to the Department regarding XXXX in the last 2 years, if available, don't need the nature of the complaints.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

All feasibility studies made by the Department as to the revival of the Irish Sugar industry as far back as records allow.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Relevant data and records to provide the answer to query regarding the feeding of unweaned calves during transport from Republic of Ireland to the continent via ferry services from Dublin & Rosslare. In addition, evidence of records or paperwork recorded from journeys of unweaned calves are fed during transport from the Republic of Ireland to the continent.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

All audit or inspection reports which relate to the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) since January 1st 2019.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

With regard to the following town-lands in Laois listed below, please provide all relevant internal memos, emails, documentations, correspondence and any other relevant information as to what Biophysical constraint each of these town-lands suffered from and what evidence was used to support the constraints. Oldtown KXXXXX Baunoge KXXXXX Coolnabou KXXXXX Middlemount KXXXXX Mount Oliver KXXXXX Harristown KXXXXX Johnstown Glebe KXXXXX Coolkerry KXXXXX With regards to F.F.I, please provide all income statistics and other relevant documentation that precluded town-lands from being accepted in the Dept of agriculture review of land for A.N.C classification. The town-lands I am interested in, from Laois: Dereen and Carrowreagh KXXXXX Oldglass KXXXXX Ballybodin KXXXXX Maynebog KXXXXX Ballynevin KXXXXX Parnahown KXXXXX Kilnaseer KXXXXX Braccas KXXXXX Raheenleigh KXXXXX Gorteen KXXXXX Newtown KXXXXX Ballygarvan Glebe KXXXXX Kyletilioge KXXXXX In relation to the previous query, can you furnish us with all the relevant documentation, emails, internal memos, and correspondence as to when F.F.I became a fine tuning criteria for the A.N.C review and also acceptance from the E.U Commission as the use of F.F.I for fine tuning.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

The video is dated XXX April 2021 and it looks like they have just arrived. I assume they went by truck with XXX Calf Company because I have seen XXX advertise for calves for export to XXX XXXX. It must take around 4 or 5 days to get to XXXX so they must have left around XXX April. Could I please get a copy of the journey log in relation to this consignment of calves to XXXX?

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Matters relating to Project clover” from the 2nd March 2021 to 12th May 2021, incoming & outgoing correspondence to minister’s office including his staff and department Agriculture, food and marine. “Project Clover - The stark reality facing the Irish economy, from the 28th March to 12th May 2021, incoming & outgoing correspondence to minister’s office including his staff and department Agriculture, food and marine. “The Perfect Storm, from the 28th March to 12th May 2021, incoming & outgoing correspondence to minister’s office including his staff and department Agriculture, food and marine Record of Phone calls from & to DAFM to XXX XXXX, XXX XXXX , & XXX XXXX , XXXX 4th March to 12th May 2021 incoming & outgoing correspondence to minister’s office including his staff and department Agriculture, food and marine Emails, Phone, text and WhatsApp messages between XXX XXX, Adviser to Minister for Agriculture and XXX XXXX, Authenticity, 14th March 2021 to 12th May 2021, incoming & outgoing correspondence to minister’s office including his staff and department Agriculture, food and marine Emails, Phone, text and WhatsApp messages between XXX XXXX, XXXX XXXX and XXXX XXX, to Minister for Agriculture and XXXX XXXX, Authenticity, XXX XXXX, XXX XXXX , & XXX XXXX , XXXX, from 14th March 2021 to 12th May 2021, incoming & outgoing correspondence to minister’s office including his staff and department Agriculture, food and marine. Emails, Phone, text and WhatsApp messages between XXX XXXX, DAFM and XXX XXXX, XXXX XXXX on 6th April regarding any correspondence subject titled ‘Subject: The perfect storm’, incoming & outgoing correspondence to minister’s office including his staff and department Agriculture, food and marine.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

I would like to request under the Freedom Of Information Act 2014 all communication sent and received, including any documents or attachments, and all minutes of meetings held, including by the Minister, in relation to An Taisce's objection to a proposed XXX and XXX cheese plant to be located in XXX, Co XXX.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Any audit of Independent Milk Laboratories, located at XXX, XXX, Co XXX in relation to their Milk testing for payment purposes. Specifically, I would firstly like to know the number of times this facility has been audited by DAFM/NMA since 2014, and the access to any audit reports completed by DAFM/NMA on this facility since 2014. Secondly, I would like the disclosure of any fines, penalties or warnings and/or guidelines for improvement issued to them as a result of any audit by DAFM/NMA. These may be in the form of 'yellow' or 'red' cards. I would also like to know what other companies, foreign or domestic, may have assisted or partnered DAFM/NMA with these Audits. Thirdly, I would like to know if any penalties, fines or other monetary charges which were issued to any milk supplier, were issued wrongly as a result of incorrect tests done by this facility, including if tests carried out on milk samples were outside an industry standard tolerance, machine calibration or procedure such as any ISO/IDF standard. I would like to know if the lab is issuing results for milk tests it is not accredited to carry out by INAB such as ones for colostrum or water content. Furthermore, I would like to know if the sample sizes this lab uses to test Milk Suppliers milk reaches the recommended sample size of 100ml taken from farms to the lab as per ISO 707 and if this single sample is a large enough size to conduct all tests this lab carries out on milk testing for payment purposes. Finally, Any certification or training required by milk transport hauliers to collect and transport raw milk from milk suppliers, i.e. dairy farmers farm yard, to milk processing facilities, i.e. co-ops. I request this information as the average haulier transports 2 loads of milk from farm yards to the co-ops from a radius 100km on average each day. This equates to roughly 52 thousand litres of raw milk a day. Multiplying this figure by 250 days, the average worked by each haulier per year, this equates to 13 million litres of milk transported by each individual haulier in the year. At an average milk price of 33.5 cents a litre, this equates to 4.355 million euros worth of quality product produced by Irish dairy farmers. Furthermore, I would like access to the number of annual inspections and type of inspections carried out of these hauliers by DAFM/NMA.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Under FOI I request the following information relating to the Departments oversight and supervision of the grant of €6,000,000.00 to Horse Sport Ireland (HSI). Provide evidence of oversight by DAFM of the appropriate use of public funds provided to Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) including but not limited to : 1. Terms by which funds are allocated by DAFM to a company limited by guarantee (such as HIS) 2. Oversight, compliance and due diligence regime employed by DAFM to a company limited by guarantee (such as HSI) 3. Approval process for the annual transfer of funds from DAFM to a company limited by guarantee (such as HIS) 4. Oversight, compliance and due diligence regime employed by DAFM to satisfy itself that a company limited by guarantee (such as HSI) is delivering service(s) in a manner which is supported by the majority of the membership in its affiliate bodies (Dressage Ireland, Showjump Ireland, Eventing Ireland, Others, Industry stakeholders) and therefore is an appropriate use of public funds. 5. All materials relating to the selection of Greenogue Equestrian as a location of a HSI HQ and Centre of Excellence including but not limited to: 5.1 Terms of reference for sub-committee setup in HIS for the purpose of selecting a location for a new HQ and Centre of Excellence. 5.2 Minutes of all subcommittee meetings. 5.3 Tender documents used to select independent consultant to conduct feasibility study. 5.4 Terms of reference under which consultant conducted feasibility study 5.5 List of range of potential sites considered and terms by which the list was compiled 5.6 Constitution of the HIS Company including the Powers Clause and/or any other legal document which shows that the board of HIS has the power to choose a site for its HQ and Centre of Excellence 5.7 Method by which DAFM is satisfying itself that the transaction is consistent with public procurement rules 5.8 Rationale for DAFM endeavouring to satisfy itself that the transaction by a company limited by guarantee (such as HSI) is consistent with public procurement rules 5.9 Projections for the running costs for the Centre of Excellence and HQ

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

I wish to seek all records, correspondence & submissions in relation to an application on behalf of the XXX for membership of the Department’s CAP Stakeholders Consultative Committee.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

I wish to request the following information / documents sent or received in 2020 / 2021: • All correspondence between the Minister and the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority in relation to a 2019 ‘administrative inquiry’ into fish landings at Irish ports and declared catches, weights, quotas. • All correspondence between the Minister and the European Commission in relation to an ‘administrative inquiry’ into fish landings at Irish ports, including a letter from Commissioner Sinkevičius last December.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

I request the following information under FOI. Please could you send the data to me in digital format via this email address. All data, including but not limited to minutes, messages (texts / WhatsApp / paper), phone notes, reports, memos relating to the following meetings, as registered in the lobby register: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/73304/glanbia

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

All data, including but not limited to minutes, messages (texts / WhatsApp / paper), phone notes, reports, memos relating to the following meetings, as registered in the lobby register: 1. https://www.lobbying.ie/return/59650/glanbia 2. https://www.lobbying.ie/return/36829/glanbia 3. https://www.lobbying.ie/return/68845/glanbia 4. https://www.lobbying.ie/return/69020/glanbia 5. https://www.lobbying.ie/return/71061/the-irish-farmers-association---ifa 6. https://www.lobbying.ie/return/73409/irish-creamery-milk-suppliers-association

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Any written or received correspondence, whether received by or sent by the Department of Agriculture or directly connected body from a third party individual or organisation pertaining to XXX XXX XXX (XXX) between the dates of Thursday 13th May 2021 and Monday 17th May 2021 (both dates inclusive).

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Can I please request copies of the below documents in relation to a shipment of cattle that left Port of Cork on 23/04/21 in livestock vessel Sarah M. • Voyage Plan • Preloading/loading report • Masters Confidential Report • Health Certs • Weather report • Veterinary report if a vet accompanied the shipment

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

• The minutes of the meetings of the Farmers Charter of Rights Monitoring Committee for the period 1/1/2018 to present. • All communications/correspondence between the Ministers of Agricultue's offices and the Monitoring committee for the period 1/1/2018 to present.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

1. The Audit report carried out by the European Commission in 2018 referred to in paragraph 2 of the Preamble to the commisiion implementing decision referred to above (hereinafter referred to as the "the decision" including any documents comprising this report. 2. the report of the administrative enquiry conducted by the Irish Competent authority, together with any additional documents comprising referrenced or included in the same, as referred to in paragraph 2 of the preamble of the decision.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Reg. Plate: XXX XXX XXX, No Company Name 1. The Inspection Form, which was filled out when the live exported pigs were loaded. 2. The exporting company's record of their planned live export journey in advance of the live exported pigs' journey, and which has been accepted and approved by the Department of Agriculture, Food, and Marine prior to the actual journey. 3. The exporting company's record of the journey of the pigs submitted to the Department of Agriculture, Food, and Marine upon completion of the live exported pigs' journey. 4. The health certificates for the live exported pigs. I am also submitting an F.O.I. for the date of the Stena Foretellar crossing Rosslare to Cherbourg on Wednesday, 21st of April 2021. I request the following information for one truck live exporting Irish unweaned calves: Reg. Plate: XXX XX XXX, No Company Name 1. The Inspection Form, which was filled out when the live exported calves were loaded. 2. The exporting company's record of their planned live export journey in advance of the live exported calves' journey, and which has been accepted and approved by the Department of Agriculture, Food, and Marine prior to the actual journey. 3. The exporting company's record of the journey of the calves submitted to the Department of Agriculture, Food, and Marine upon completion of the live exported calves' journey. 4. The health certificates for the live exported calves. I am submitting an F.O.I. for the date of the Stena ferry crossing Rosslare to Cherbourg on the Stena Foretellar on Friday, 23rd of April 2021. I request the following information for 2 listed trucks and trailers: 1. XXX XXX XXXX XXXX 2. XXX XXX XXXX XXXX 1. The Inspection Form, which was filled out when the live exported animals were loaded. 2. The exporting company's record of their planned live export journey in advance of the live exported calves' journey, and which has been accepted and approved by the Department of Agriculture, Food, and Marine prior to the actual journey. 3. The exporting company's record of the journey of the animals submitted to the Department of Agriculture, Food, and Marine upon completion of the live exported animals' journey. 4. Health certificates for the live exported animals. I also have a fourth query regarding the first truck, and trailer listed above, XXX XX XXX XXX : no teats – metal nor rubber – could be viewed at all inside the trailer where the animals were. Can you please tell me where are the teats in this trailer? Two concerned individuals looked as far as they could on both sides of this trailer, and neither individual viewed a single teat in any of the compartments.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

1.All submissions made to DAFM’s consultation on the creation of a National Food Ombudsman. 2. All reports prepared by XXX XXX for the Beef Task Force

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Under the FOI Act 2014, I am seeking the following: - copies of any representations/correspondence received with regard to the reopening of horse racing events to either owners or the wider general public. - copies of any records held in the email account of Minister McConalogue referring or relating to the reopening of horse racing events as above. Both parts of this request to cover the period 1 March 2021 to date of receipt of the request.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Please forward all communications between all Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine officials, relating to XX cattle, the property of XXX XXX or XXX XXX, detained at XXX XXX, XXX XXX, on XXXX XX XXXXX, whose carcasses were subsequently released to the food chain. Please forward all communications between Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine officials and the Minister, or the office of the Minister, relating to the same XX cattle.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Please forward all communications between all Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine officials, relating to XX cattle, the property of XXX XXXX or XXXX XXXX, detained at XXX XXX, XXX, Co Kildare, on XXXX XX XXXX, whose carcasses were subsequently released to the food chain. Specifically, all communications relating to the location of those cattle in the two months preceding XX XXXX, and all communications relating to the location of the herd of which those cattle were, or may have been, a part.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Please forward all communications between all Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine officials, relating to XX cattle, the property of XXX or XXX, detained at XXX, XXX, XXX, on XXX, whose carcasses were subsequently released to the food chain. Specifically, all communications between department officials and the owner or owners of the cattle.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2014, I request all records pertaining to the policy of Appropriate Assessment as adopted and implemented by the Forest Service. I seek all records with respect to the following: 1. When was the Forest Service first made aware of the need to implement an Appropriate Assessment policy, 2. Who informed the Forest Service, 3. What meetings/discussions were held when deciding to formulate and implement said policy, 4. Who attended the meetings, their roles and contributions, 5. Submissions from industry and private individuals with respect to the formulation of the Appropriate Assessment policy, 6. The names of departmental officials and foresters who ultimately drafted and approved the policy, and 7. Why a 15k zoning was decided upon, who decided that zoning, and the rationale for categorizing forestry as an industrial process. I would like all official notes including worksheets and all and any communications and scratch work done in the formulation of the policy of Appropriate Assessment.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2014 I am seeking copies of emails, including any attachments, sent or received from the email accounts of XXXX@agriculture.gov.ie; XXXXl@agriculture.gov.ie; XXXX@agriculture.gov.ie and XXXX@agriculture.gov.ie in the period July 1, 2011 to August 31st 2011 where the word lairage appears in the title or the body of the email.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

the nature and description of the documents that you have appertaining to the correspondence and records between the Revenue Commissioners and the Minister and Dept in relation to and dealing with the legitimacy of the Department’s arrangements of “Contracts with Temporary Veterinary Inspectors” and as to its compliance with Statutory requirements. The Revenue Commissioners have certain rules and guidelines in relation to alleged engagement or employment by all employers vis a vie arrangements purporting to be Contracts or independent contractors.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Any communications between Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConologue and Minister for Environment Eamon Ryan between March 2021 and July 6 2021. Can narrow it down to climate change, or if necessary the new Climate Bill.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

All written correspondence including e mails, faxes, letters and message onf social messaging apps, pertaining to VAT credit claims or VAT payment to the Revenue Commissioners arising from afforestation contracts associated with any of Coillte’s farm partners.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

"I am submitting an FOI request under the Acts for all records in relation to the attendance of Minister of State Pippa Hackett at a 'No Peat No Produce' protest as reported in a FIE News Service tweet retweeted by XXXX Magazine on 16/07/2021. In the tweet Min of State Hackett was pictured standing - without any covid mask - next to a XXX XXX XXX of the XXX - also without a covid mask –“

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

I wish to request the release of all records relating to an EU Commission Audit on the monitoring of the LEADER Programme including the development and implementation of DRCD Circular 01/2021. This request may be forwarded electronically

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Under the FOI Act 2014, I am seeking the following: - a copy of the business case referred to in the following article: https://afloat.ie/port-news/fishing/item/51070- minister-mcconalogue-approves-bim-s-business-case-for-new-sea-survival-training-unit-at-national-fisheries- college

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

I am seeking information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act. The information I am seeking is the following: On 11 July 2021 an article was published on the RTE website titles “Animal Welfare inspector moved over ‘credible’ safety threat’ - https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2021/0711/1234437-animal-cruelty/. The article referenced a report that detailed the difficulties encountered by the inspector as well as a note attached to a DAFM inspection report that said the “ISPCA was reviewing its presence in Limerick due to a lack of funding, and also because the Limerick inspector had received "significant threats to XXX personal safety on a number of occasions".”

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Could I please have a copy of the veterinary reports for all the journeys transporting calves to Europe where a department vet was in attendance. XXX XXX stated at the ANIT meeting in February that a vet has accompanied calves to Spain, could I please have a copy of that report also (copy of the Veterinary Inspector’s report of a journey on a dedicated vessel in December 2020).

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

The European Commission’s 2018 audit into landing procedures in Irish Fisheries - The Sea Fisheries Protection Authority administrative inquiry into landing procedures in Irish Fisheries.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

The terms and conditions of the current licence given by the NPWS to the Dept of Agriculture, and for the trapping, and culling/vaccination of badgers

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act 2014, I request all records in relation to the following: 1. The decision to conduct a review of Investigations Division (eg: who made the decision and what reasons lay behind it) 2. The selection of personnel to conduct the review , what criteria were applied in this selection and who made the selection? 3. The terms of reference/instructions issued to the reviewers including the dates of all such terms of reference/instructions and the identities of the persons issuing these.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Can you tell me how many inspections the department of agriculture carried out in 2017, 2018 , 2019 and 2020 on farms with single farm payment applications which availed of the nitrates derogation and submitted parcels of commonage and hill land to confirm those parcels of ground was 1 being grazed and in GAEC 2 had slurry or manure applied to it. Secondly can you tell me how many farmers with parcels of commonage or hill land in their single farm payment application who availed of the nitrates derogation were penalised for not either grazing or spreading slurry or manure on such land.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

How many farmers in their single farm application in 2020 who availed if the nitrates derogation included parcels of 1 commonage 2 rough grazing Secondly how many farmers who availed of the nitrates directive in their single farm payment application and included commonage were asked by the department of agriculture to provide evidence of consent from the other commonage shareholders to the spreading of slurry or manure on that land. Thirdly how many farms were penalised in 2018 and also in 2019 because they had included parcels of land which was not in GAEC

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

I am making a request under the Freedom of Information Acts about the details of the Service Level Agreement between the Department of Agriculture (or other departments for that matter) and XXX

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Under the FOI Act 2014 I request: 1. both the rules and the Terms & Conditions for grants referred to in the article 2. the documents and records that relate to XXXX selection of XXXXX which are being reviewed by the department to ensure compatibility with both the rules and Terms & Conditions for grants and which must therefore by necessity be in the possession of the department and which by definition must include but are not limited to: • Contract for lease of XXXX current HQ at XXXX XXXX, XXXX • Terms of Reference for sub-committee setup in XXXX for the purpose of selecting a location for a new HQ and Centre of Excellence • Minutes of all sub-committee meetings • Tender documents used to select independent consultant to conduct feasibility study • Terms of Reference under which consultant conducted feasibility study • List of range of potential sites considered and terms by which the list was compiled • Constitution of the XXXX Company including the Powers Clause and/or any other legal document which shows that the Board of XXXX has the sole power to choose a site for its HQ and Centre of Excellence • Method by which XXXX has satisfied itself that the transaction is consistent with public procurement rules • Copy of the current contract with XXXXX XXXX • Copy of the proposed long-term contract with XXXXX XXXX

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Felling Licence: TFLXXXXX A copy of the above Felling Licence and conditions attached which was issued on 15/07/2019

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

• All records relating to payments made to XXX XXXX Ltd (t/a The XXXX XXXX) for the period 1 January 2020 - 24 August 2021.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

I wish to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, access to correspondence / minutes / memos / briefings relating to the virtual meeting mentioned in the following lobbying return: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/72674/abp-foods

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

I wish to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, access to all correspondence between XXX of the Irish Whiskey Association and XXX during 2021. Details of the correspondence are outlined here: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/69623/ibec, which covers the period: 1st January 2021 to 30th April 2021

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

• A breakdown of the number of farms in receipt of Basic Payment Scheme payments by gender in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. To include an age breakdown of under 35, 35 – 44, 55 – 64 and over 65. • A breakdown by gender of the number of farmers that received payment under the Young Farmers Scheme, every year from 2015 up to 2021. • A breakdown by gender of the number of farms that received funding under the Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Schemes (TAMS) each year from 2015 up to the current date in 2021. • A breakdown by gender of the number of farmers under 35 that received funding under the Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Schemes (TAMS) each year from 2015 up to the current date in 2021.