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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: There is now the winter resilience programme, which is gearing up to make sure we do not finish up in situations like those the people of Brosna had to endure, which were horrible and beyond belief. They were trapped in their homes with no power, no heat and no anything. The winter resilience programme will come forward with outcomes as to what the passage should be. That will be my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: Changes have been made with regard to the land types that can be used. As the Deputy knows from his work experience, much of the land that could be planted before cannot be planted now because of different regulations and guidelines. What people can do at all times is plant land that has 30 cm of peat on top. There is this idea of encouraging people to stay away from certain types of soil...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am delighted the Senator has asked the question. Last night, I read the press release that the Climate Change Advisory Council issued. I had it in my hand and I thought that it was a disgrace because it is wrong, it is inaccurate and it is misleading. I have told others this already but I am going to say it again. What they actually did in that statement was they repeated - I do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am here to defend myself. I saw what they said today about me on page 12 of the Irish Independent and they were bloody well wrong. I am entitled to say that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am going to focus on another thing they said that was wrong and highly inaccurate. When talking about carbon emissions, if we go back to the 1970s and 1980s, when we planted trees, we were sinking carbon into the ground. We were doing what we call a good thing. When harvesting that timber now, it might be creating emissions in a way that we do not want or is not good. However, when we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will be as quick as I can. With regard to the great work Teagasc is doing in studying and researching exactly what happened concerning ash dieback, the Chair has agreed to provide a report commissioned and given to a previous Oireachtas committee. The committee will have all the detail on that work. That work is continuing to this day. I thank Teagasc for its great work. On protecting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: It still has to go through a process. The Cathaoirleach is dead right-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: More of them are straightforward and simple. I visited the people dealing with the applications. I have every confidence they are putting their hearts and souls into it. They know people have gone through the trauma of having their forests die. They are working diligently. They know how important the new scheme is to people. It is four months on average.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: Correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: In getting the compensation package, it was an enormous amount of money, and that was one of the conditions put there by the Department of public expenditure. That is what it is. We cannot change that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: Yes. The ecologists working in the Department dealing with forestry will stay working in that department. In the broader scheme of life, if a young person today is wondering about a career and had any interest in ecology, I would strongly suggest it because in the future, with all the regulations and everything coming down the road, if you had young, budding ecologist at home, I would send...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: That is part of the work Teagasc is doing. It is being looked at.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: 48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a drivers licence for a person (details supplied) will be renewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40111/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Cross-Border Co-operation (15 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: 174. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the status of an application for funding (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38698/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Citizenship Applications (15 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: 205. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current status of a citizenship application through the Foreign Births Registration for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39671/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (15 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: 293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on an exchanged driving licence application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39046/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: 437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline whether a school bus seat will be guaranteed with a concessionary ticket for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38660/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: 467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be provided in 2025-2026 for persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39031/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (15 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: 528. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a connection for the NBI has been changed for a person (details supplied); if connection will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38976/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (15 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: 659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a domiciliary care allowance appeal will be reviewed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39479/25]