Results 261-280 of 766 for speaker:Pippa Hackett

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Farm Costs (15 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: No. If the Deputies actually bothered to listen to my response at the start, they would have heard a number of measures outlined.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Farm Costs (15 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: I will gladly share with the Deputies my response.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Farm Costs (15 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: The Deputies can follow up on some of those comments there.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pigmeat Sector (15 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: On behalf of the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. I am certainly happy to bring the following to the attention of the House: the continued development of the pigmeat sector is a priority for my Department, given the pivotal role the industry plays in the national economic context. It is a large agrifood sector and has shown remarkable growth in recent...

Seanad: Report of Joint Committee on Agriculture and the Marine: Motion (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: I thank my Seanad colleagues for the invitation to speak today. I also welcome Deputy Cahill to the Seanad. I very much welcome the detailed consideration that went into this report. I and my Department have had several engagements with the committee since the report's publication last March, and we have updated members on the steps being taken to address the recommendations made. The...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: I do not know about that.

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: It is important to say this is enabling legislation. Not one tree will be planted under this legislation until the scheme is in place. That is important to know. Any trees planted outside of the scheme, if the area is more than 0.1 ha, will be subject to the regulations and the legislation under the current forestry Act. To speak to Senator Higgins’s points, which I understand and...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: In terms of tracking, currently all areas are mapped and visible as forestry parcels are planted and that will continue under any such scheme we introduce. As the Senator is aware EU law trumps domestic law and we have engaged with the legal advice not only in my Department but in the Office of the Attorney General, who feels that it is acceptable to conduct the scheme, and make the scheme...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: No, we are still satisfied regarding the suggestions in this amendment and in a later amendment of Senator Higgins in which there is a rather exhaustive, and absolutely justifiable, list, but they all belong in the regulations and not in the primary legislation.

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: Briefly, there have been a number of issues covered in relation to section 4. I want to thank the Senators for proposing this. I know we are not talking to the amendments, but I am generally supportive of the policy objectives of the Senators here. The policy point is important. My Department is already working on a proposal that is very much in keeping with the amendment which the...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: Do I have to wait until we get there, even though people spoke to this section?

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: I thought they spoke on the environmental impact assessment, EIA.

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: Will I stop there?

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: That is fine. Will I wait until we get to the section in question? I already spoke about the question of redundancies.

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: I will briefly respond on any EIAs required where demolition is carried out. Certainly, if an EIA is required, that is provided for in the legislation in terms of the compensation. My understanding is that will be covered. On the calculation of the compensation, calculation of the recent profits of a business is normally used as a means of placing a value on such a company. Ordinarily,...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: No, I did not say that. I said that the Department is still considering the statutory redundancy piece. The other issue I was bringing back to the Oireachtas relates to section 4. It was the amendment proposed by the Sinn Féin Senators regarding the dogs. The Department is working on a proposal very much in keeping with the proposed amendment and that will come before the Oireachtas.

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: I cannot confirm the specifics of that but the Department is still considering the redundancy issue.

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: I will respond to that point first. The proposal is not to bring legislation but the Department is working on a proposal that is in keeping with the proposed amendment suggested by Senator Gavan and his colleagues. I expect that to reach the Oireachtas in the coming months. That is the information I have but I will delve into it and find more details out because it is something I am...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: Yesterday, Offaly County Council was pushed to provide safe houses for victims of domestic violence. It was asked to do so out of its housing allocation as a matter of urgency but the council's response was that it needed more time. I understand anyone's plea for more time but when we face a crisis, time is often something of which we have little. Recently, I met with Offaly Domestic...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament (23 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: I welcome Ambassador Cronin and our MEP colleagues, Billy Kelleher and Seán Kelly and, in particular, my party colleague, Grace O'Sullivan, whose seat I was most fortunate to take in the by-election following her election to the European Parliament. I want to address the subject of the EU just transition fund, which we are finalising and will submit to the Commission very soon. I take...