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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: My next question is for Dr. Condon. There was a question earlier relating to the Cohesion Fund and the social aspect of it. Dr. Condon mentioned the multi-annual financial framework but we do not know the exact details going forward. Am I correct in saying that the military will now be part of that and getting money from those funds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I accept that but the impact will be that some of that funding will not go into social developments but into military-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I am not talking about us. I mean at a European level.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Yes, but it can happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: They are only proposals but this is very much the route going forward, at an EU level, given everything we have discussed here today. The analysis that the Conflict and Environment Observatory gave us at that meeting suggests that spending money to address the environmental impact of climate change while at the same time putting money into areas which have directly negative consequences for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: As there are no members indicating, I will close the meeting. Go raibh míle maith agaibh. I thank the witnesses for taking part, especially as we were unsure in relation to timing. I hope I did not have too much of an impact on their days.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: We had the Conflict and Environment Observatory before us previously to discuss the environmental aspects of this. They spoke about the climate impacts of rearming Europe. They said that the climate impact of rearming Europe, taken together with NATO spending increases, will create up to $264 billion of climate damage per year. It seems to be counterintuitive to have environmental spending...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Inland Fisheries (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 13. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that Inland Fisheries Ireland operates a facility (details supplied) in County Galway under licence from his Department, if Inland Fisheries Ireland notified him of its imminent closure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55539/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: EU Regulations (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 14. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the recreational fisheries which will be subject to fishing authorisations and catch declarations in the future as per Article 55.4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1224/2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55541/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: EU Regulations (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 22. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Article 55 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1224/2009 affects recreational inland fisheries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55552/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Inland Fisheries (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 17. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there have been any resignations from the Board of Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) this calendar year considering that IFI operates under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55546/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Inland Fisheries (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 18. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the principal officer of the Inland Fisheries Division within his Department, is on secondment to the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55548/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Legislative Measures (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 19. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will issue a Section 14 Authorisation under the Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959, for the operation of a facility (details supplied) in Autumn 2025 as per standard practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55549/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Angling Sector (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 20. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a Departmental policy has been agreed to impose a total catch and release model for recreational salmon angling in the jurisdiction for 2026; and if his officials have considered the adverse implications for all other forms of angling particularly the mandatory use of single and double barbless hooks where salmon...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Legislative Measures (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 21. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is the intention of his Departmental officials to legislatively take control of stock management (invasive pike culling) operations on Lough Corrib SAC in County Galway as was attempted under Regulation 7 of the 2021 Draft Designated Salmonid Waters Bye-Law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55551/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 193. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason risk assessments for only two invasive freshwater fish species (chub and common carp) out of four listed in the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 477 of 2011) have been conducted by the National Biodiversity Data Centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 194. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the National Parks and Wildlife Service continues to support the removal of invasive pike from the Owenriff system that straddles two SACs near Oughterard, County Galway in an effort to restore the ecosystem to its natural state, in order for Ireland to be in compliance with Article 6.2 of the EU Habitats Directive; and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Forestry Sector (15 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 252. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the neonicotinoid insecticide acetamiprid will be used in State-owned forestry within the zone of influence of Lough Corrib SAC in 2025 and 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55540/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Schemes (14 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the grant-based scheme his Department is working on to support disabled drivers and passengers which will replace the primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54782/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: School Funding (14 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 799. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the business case submitted in relation to a school (details supplied) on 19 March 2025; if the funding requested will be provided for in Budget 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54553/25]