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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Mar 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 67. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the contingency allocation he has set aside for Covid-related matters in 2022; the amount that has been drawn down to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11370/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (1 Mar 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 76. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the impact on public expenditure of the recently announced measures to help address cost of living issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11371/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 Mar 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address complaints regarding school bus runs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11035/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (1 Mar 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 871. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the next round of CLÁR funding will open for applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10918/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Feb 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 227. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will be looking into the removal of VAT on AED devices in the wake of agreement by EU Finance Ministers to amend Council Directive 2006/112/EC on 7 December 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10519/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Services (24 Feb 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 468. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans that are in place in order to supply members of the veterinary profession with the necessary amount of injectable calcium (details supplied); if there are plans in place to counteract a shortage or increase this supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10661/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (24 Feb 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 469. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Ash dieback RUS applications his Department intend to process in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10819/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 Feb 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 470. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the area of afforestation planted with commercial conifer species in each of the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10820/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 Feb 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 471. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applicants or members of the REAP scheme who have applied for afforestation approval under his Department’s afforestation grant and premium scheme for January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10821/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (23 Feb 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I remind members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery to turn off their mobile phones. Members are requested to ensure that for the duration of the meeting their mobile phones are turned off completely, or switched to airplane safe or flight mode, depending on the device. It is not sufficient for members just to put phones on silent mode as it maintains the level of interference with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (23 Feb 2022)

Jackie Cahill: We get many opening statements in this committee and I have not, in my term here, come across an opening statement as disturbing as the one Dr. Kirby made, in particular the fact that in Ireland and the UK in 2022, these fertility clinics can operate completely unregulated, according to his report, and I am not questioning the accuracy of it in any regard. We have the Department of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (23 Feb 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I will bring in Senator Boylan first because she is the one who looked to have this subject brought before the committee and it merits serious discussion, so I will allow her to go first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (23 Feb 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I will allow two quick questions from Senator Boylan and Deputy Browne.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (23 Feb 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Dr. Kirby for participating in today's meeting. His insight into the issues was frightening, given some of the content we heard. We have a submission from the Department. I want to put it on the record. It states legislation is being prepared on this and it hopes to have it by the end of the year. This committee will have a very significant input into that legislation....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I welcome representatives of Hemp Cooperative Ireland, Ms Kate Carmody, chairperson, Mr. Eoin Carew, secretary and Mr. Declan Darcy, treasurer and from the Hemp Federation Ireland, Ms Chris Allen, the director and Mr. Marcus John McCabe, expert advisory board member.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I invite Ms Allen to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Jackie Cahill: How much land would have to be sown to achieve that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I ask Ms Allen to keep her answers brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Jackie Cahill: That is a lot of questions. The court case is up for review in July so we will not get into that. We will not pass any comment on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Will Ms Carmody confirm it is a three-month growth period from sow to harvest?