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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Renewable Energy Directive: Discussion (24 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: At the moment wood pulp has no market. It cannot be sold. Private operators are thinning forests at the moment and cannot sell the product. They are piling it up. Coillte is allowing that to happen. I blame Coillte for it. Thinning at the moment has no economic value. People planted forests in the expectation that when they thinned their forests, it would have a value at ten, 15 or 20...

Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: Coillte and Bord na Móna are two key players in delivering the forestry targets contained in the programme for Government. The decision by Coillte to stop buying wood pulp from private operators in the forestry sector sends a very bad signal to the industry. Those operators have no other outlet for their wood pulp. In the context of meeting our climate change targets on biomass, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stamp Duty (24 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 99. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the family home will be treated for stamp duty when being transferred to a son or daughter to be used as the recipient's primary residence; the way it will be treated in cases in which the recipient has a separate primary residence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45049/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly Provision (24 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 283. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in County Tipperary under headings (details supplied) that were available at all HSE facilities within the county for each of the years 2010 to 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45080/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly Provision (24 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 284. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the growing number of persons on waiting lists for admission to the Hospital of the Assumption, Thurles, County Tipperary, for step-down care following care at an acute hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45081/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (18 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 166. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to remove the 20% rule on planting unenclosed land and replace it with a system that assesses productivity and environmental suitability for forestry; the evidence used to calculate the 20% figure; and if other European countries have such a rule. [44126/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (18 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 167. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers and non-farmers participating in planting schemes under the forest programme 2014 to 2020. [44127/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Joint Committee (17 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: Apologies have been received from the Chairman, Deputy Pringle and Senator Lombard. I remind members to turn off their mobile telephones. I propose we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters. We will then resume in public. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: The committee will now hear from Professor Mark Ferguson, director general of Science Foundation Ireland and chief scientific adviser to the Government, Professor Linda Doyle, director of CONNECT, SFI's research centre for future networks and communications, and Professor Fiona Doohan, professor of crop diseases at UCD. I thank the witnesses for attending.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: I apologise for interrupting. I am new to the Chair and forgot to read the statement on privilege. Before we begin, I bring to the witnesses' attention to the fact that they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they give to the committee. However, if they are directed to cease giving evidence in relation to a particular matter and they continue to do so, they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Professor Doyle. I call Professor Doohan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I call Deputy McConalogue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: We will take two or three questions and then we will come back to the witnesses. I call Deputy Kenny.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: We will take one more set of questions and then we will go back to the witnesses. I call Deputy Corcoran Kennedy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Deputy Corcoran Kennedy. A mobile telephone is still on. I remind people to switch them off. We will go back to the panel now for answers to those questions please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Professor Doyle, and call on Deputy Willie Penrose.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: I call Senator Mulherin. We will then hear from Deputy Fitzmaurice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: Are there any further questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: Deputies McConalogue and Fitzmaurice want to ask a question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: I thank the witnesses for attending today's meeting and making their presentation. They will have noted from the volume of questions that the committee found their presentation very interesting. We will suspend briefly to allow the witnesses in the second group to take their places.