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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Department of Agriculture and the Marine (29 Jan 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Mr. Dunne might get back to Deputy Browne with written clarification on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Department of Agriculture and the Marine (29 Jan 2021)

Jackie Cahill: What tonnage has come in from the UK in the past six months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Department of Agriculture and the Marine (29 Jan 2021)

Jackie Cahill: We must conclude as we have reached the two-hour mark. I sincerely thank Mr. Colm Hayes, Mr. Seamus Dunne and Ms Patricia Kelly. The vigorous questioning by the committee stems from members' concern for the forestry sector. We need to start meeting our targets for afforestation, thinning and clear-felling if we are to have a healthy industry. The committee will prepare a report with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: The Impact of Brexit on the Agriculture Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Feb 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I remind members that in the context of the Covid-19 restrictions, only the Chairman and staff are present in the committee room and all other members must join remotely from elsewhere within the parliamentary precincts. The secretariat can issue invitations to join the meeting on Microsoft Teams. Members may not participate in the meeting from outside the parliamentary precincts. I ask...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: The Impact of Brexit on the Agriculture Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Feb 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I concur with the Minister's comments on Department staff and officials. We all dreaded what 1 January would bring. Thankfully, while we are here discussing problems, it has not caused huge market turbulence yet. We have to recognise that fact. We are trying to overcome difficulties that a Brexit deal was bound to impose on us. I will raise a number of matters before I open up the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: The Impact of Brexit on the Agriculture Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Feb 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Mr. Savage. A number of members wish to contribute, the first of whom is Senator Paul Daly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: The Impact of Brexit on the Agriculture Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Feb 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Mr. Doyle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: The Impact of Brexit on the Agriculture Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Feb 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Do members have supplementary questions they want to put to the Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: The Impact of Brexit on the Agriculture Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Feb 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Before the Minister answers, I also have a Covid-related question. I know that unfortunately, supplies of the vaccine are extremely scarce. Our milk processing facilities operate at capacity - some would say even beyond capacity - from the last week of April to the second week of June. A cluster in a milk processing facility would have serious repercussions for capacity through the month...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: The Impact of Brexit on the Agriculture Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Feb 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I support the comments made by the Deputy. It is a pity that we cannot get an Irish solution. An industry could be built around the use of such plastic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: The Impact of Brexit on the Agriculture Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Feb 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I thank the Minister and officials for a very earnest exchange of views. There are many areas of concern but getting a solution for mixed milk is critical. We must also make sure live exports can continue in the Brexit scenario. There are also the additional costs being imposed on our exports. I know there are other issues but these are the three main ones we would like the Minister and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I welcome that the just transition commissioner is engaging with peat harvesting contractors, but how are our horticulture industry and our nursery industry going to survive economically without their access to peat and compost? These are essential. Will we find ourselves importing this natural raw material we have in this country for these industries to be able to survive and prosper?

Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020: Motion (3 Feb 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Thankfully, this scheme has helped many people during the financial hardship which the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has imposed on them. I raise issues in respect of two groups that have contacted me, and which believe the conditions of the scheme discriminate against. The first group consists of approximately 80 travel counsellors, most of whom have been refused access to the CRSS on...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Derelict Sites (3 Feb 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 18. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if energy grants are available for the development of a derelict site to set up a new business in a premises in the town centre of Thurles, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5445/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (3 Feb 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 174. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures being put in place to calculate benefit-in-kind during the pandemic (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5103/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (3 Feb 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 466. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify crèche guidelines for children under a year old (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5102/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (3 Feb 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 948. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if land counts as hectares in the folio number in cases in which land is under a permanent lake; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5606/21]

Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2021)

Jackie Cahill: This is a difficult time for the aviation industry. I wish to discuss a number of concerns that have been raised with me by constituents in recent weeks. They are worried about the future of the aviation sector in Ireland, the continued lockdown and the impact of Covid-19 on the sector's financial viability. They have raised with me their genuinely held concerns that if airlines are not...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (4 Feb 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 34. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person can be permitted to sit a driver theory test for a tractor licence during the current Covid-19 related lockdown similar to the manner in which bus and truck CPC theory tests can be sat remotely given that agriculture and the production of food are essential services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6153/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (4 Feb 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 69. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6137/21]