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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: This is a non-EU country that we are importing from.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: I strongly the urge that we consider a ban; not stopping the timber coming in – just taking the back off it. We have such a valuable crop here so we should not let it in. We will not even be able to replant if that beetle comes in. It stays. You cannot just clear-fell and start again. If the beetle is there, the land is useless for the production of timber going forward. I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: That is not the point I made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: The point I made is when land comes up in an area for afforestation, the way this forestry strategy has been designed, the investor coming in with the bottomless pocket will buy the land. That is my view and the Minister of State is not going to change it. Previously, the significantly higher premium the farmer received gave him an advantage in purchasing the land. That advantage does not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: We will see.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: They were not on an equal footing the last time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: Coillte could not access premiums.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: Will the Minister of State look into the extension to 1 April?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: We have to have a balance here too. We will not have the contractors if they are to be confined to doing their work in the depths of winter. It is often impractical to go onto land in mid-January. March is when the contractors really get the work done. What we are talking about is clear-felling. We have to have a balance and make it economically viable for contractors to operate in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: Can we be given figures on how exactly it works in practice with licences?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: In the past 12 months, how many licences were issued within the timeframe prescribed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: Can we get a table indicating the exact time it takes to issue licences?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: Could the committee get a table showing exactly how long it is taking to issue licences?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: I will allow the next speaker and then go back to the Minister of State for answers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: I will now allow the two Ministers to summarise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: Yes, and you can then summarise after that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: On behalf of the committee, I thank both the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, and the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, for coming in before the committee this evening, and also thank their officials. We have had an extensive examination of forestry strategy. As I stated at the outset, we all hope that it works and delivers the afforestation targets that we want to see, both for the forestry...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: We will look for that regularly.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Constitutional Amendments (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: 142. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a date has been set for a referendum on enshrining public ownership of Uisce Éireann in the Constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43030/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizens Information Services (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: 155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a pay claim submission for its staff, and a request for extra staff for 2024, has been received by her Department from the Citizens Information Board; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42978/23]