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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (25 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 552. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current information on the incidence of rot and decay in trees infected with ash dieback; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27711/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (25 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 553. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a Forest Service inspector or inspector of his Department has raised concerns over the practicality or operational feasibility or expressed any negative concerns to senior management within his Department on the existing ash dieback reconstitution and underplanting scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27712/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (25 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: Given the time I will not take the full seven minutes. I thank the participants for sharing their expertise and insight. Everything we have heard this morning highlights the magnitude and complexity of the problem. When it comes to cybersecurity it is quite obvious at this stage that Ireland left the front door and the back door open. We are now reacting to fix the damage. The damage is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (25 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: What is the timescale? How long will it take to rebuild this system and put up our defences?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (25 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: I am happy with that timescale, which is five to ten years, if one has everything in place.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 358. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is planned to exclude professional registered foresters from the scheme to plant trees along rivers and watercourses to act as carbon sinks and interceptors of nutrients currently being prepared by the Minister of State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27188/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 359. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is planned to get external expertise and registered foresters to assist his staff in developing the scheme to plant trees along rivers and watercourses to act as carbon sinks and interceptors of nutrients currently being prepared by the Minister of State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27189/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 360. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to circular 5 of 2021, clarification regarding ash dieback scheme and planning permission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27190/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 361. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department was not aware of the issues in relation to planning permission when developing and ultimately issuing the RUS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27191/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 362. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are possible mechanisms in the Forestry Act 2014 that take account of the fact that the ash crops are either dying or dead and as such are not subject to the rules as laid out in circular 5/2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27192/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 363. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to develop a process with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage that takes account of the fact that ash trees are either dead or dying and rotting and that the process and procedure as laid out in circular 5 of 2021 does not take account of this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27193/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 364. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that ash plantations subject to ash dieback, which are either dead or dying and rotting are now a very serious health and safety trap for owners, contractors and the public and the contents of circular 5 of 2021 in view of the performance of his Department in issuing approvals in the RUS...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 365. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to revisit the existing academically excellent but operationally nonsensical and impractical RUS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27195/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 366. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is on target to date to achieve the stated licensing output target of 4,500 licences; if not, he size of the delay in relation in achieving the target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27196/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 191. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1991 of 24 March 2021, if he regards the GLAS and afforestation schemes as complementary schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27083/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 192. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1991 of 24 March 2021, the number of participants in GLAS that afforested a part of their holding under the afforestation scheme in each year since the launch of the scheme in tabular form; the percentage of participants in the GLAS scheme that afforested a part of their farm under the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 193. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1991 of 24 March 2021, if he plans to have a mandatory professional forester involvement in the proposed planting of trees initiative outlined in his response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27085/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 194. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1990 and 1993 of 24 March 2021, the percentage of the pillar 1 and pillar 2 funding of the new CAP which must be disbursed on agri-environmental measures; the amount per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27086/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 195. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1990 and 1993 of 24 March 2021, the cost-benefit analysis and all other associated studies which led to the decision of his Department that the forestry programme will be delivered entirely separately from the CAP strategic plan and will be subject to new state aid rules rather than the...