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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (9 Dec 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 140. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the Midlands Regional Enterprise Plan. [60671/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Dec 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 157. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department will be providing new supports to businesses currently being impacted by public health restrictions. [60672/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Needed to Support the Economic Recovery Plan: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the witnesses for appearing. This is an informative and timely meeting. Obviously, there are many issues and challenges facing the hospitality sector and these have been intensified by the new restrictions. The Restaurant Association of Ireland called for an updated report on the skills needs in tourism and hospitality on three occasions in the past 20 months. The expert group on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Needed to Support the Economic Recovery Plan: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)

Joe Flaherty: I can certainly appreciate the demands on the finite resources of the secretariat. However, we have to acknowledge that since 2018, when it finished that phase and it was handed over to Fáilte Ireland, there has been seismic change in this sector. Every member of this committee will be aware of the anecdotal information we are getting that a large number of those who were in the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Breeding (7 Dec 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 654. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average processing time for a foal registration. [59927/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (2 Dec 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the planned refurbishment of 12 local authority houses at a location (details supplied). [59630/21]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2021)

Joe Flaherty: I assure Deputy Higgins that I will leave plenty of time for her. I welcome the Supplementary Estimate and congratulate the Minister on all the work he is doing. He has hit the ground running and everybody on the committee agrees that he is the man with all the solutions. We are invigorated by his efforts to date, as I am sure everyone here agrees. I want to follow up on the points...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy and Young Farmers: Engagement with Macra na Feirme (1 Dec 2021)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the president and his colleagues for the very informative presentation, as always. I will try not to plough the same ground, if you will excuse the farming cliche. I want to hone in on the land mobility service. To give the president a break, I will direct this question to Mr. Dillon. We know that succession is not an exclusively Irish issue and that it is an issue right across...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy and Young Farmers: Engagement with Macra na Feirme (1 Dec 2021)

Joe Flaherty: Assuming Mr. Dillon gets the €1.5 million, is it correct that he is probably looking at 7,500 arrangements over the five years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy and Young Farmers: Engagement with Macra na Feirme (1 Dec 2021)

Joe Flaherty: Realistically, a quarter of those farm families could transition.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy and Young Farmers: Engagement with Macra na Feirme (1 Dec 2021)

Joe Flaherty: It still does not get away from the fact that it is going to try to pick the most viable farms. A creative solution will be required in cases where there will be a transition and off-farm income as well. Will another model not need to come into play?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy and Young Farmers: Engagement with Macra na Feirme (1 Dec 2021)

Joe Flaherty: I wish to make one very quick point on that as well. I know Macra na Feirme has a path worn to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine but has it had much engagement with the Department of Finance on the taxation issue in terms of succession?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy and Young Farmers: Engagement with Macra na Feirme (1 Dec 2021)

Joe Flaherty: I am not being critical in any way, it is just a case of seeing how we can help because it is important for rural Ireland that we are as creative and inventive as possible when it comes to transitioning farm families. I thank Mr. Dillon. I have two more pieces to raise. I will ask Mr. Fitzgerald the next question. He mentioned faecal sampling and milk recording as potential measures...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy and Young Farmers: Engagement with Macra na Feirme (1 Dec 2021)

Joe Flaherty: That is okay, because I am conscious that other speakers want to come in. I have one last question, which I will direct to Mr. Keane. This committee spends a lot of time discussing forestry. Notwithstanding the challenges in the sector currently, it is probably not hot on the agenda of young farmers. Traditionally, it is older farmers who go into forestry. What is the feeling among young...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Joe Flaherty: I thank those involved for the briefing this morning. I wish to raise a related issue that the witnesses might be able to assist me with. I appreciate that I am probably going a bit off the subject in this regard. It relates to work permits. The system is working much better at the moment. An issue I am increasingly encountering relates to employers who successfully secure permits for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Joe Flaherty: That is correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Joe Flaherty: I thank Ms Coogan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Joe Flaherty: That is all for now.