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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I am wondering where the other 27,500 ha will come from in such a short space of time. Have we a sense of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: There is the incentive piece as well, as Deputy Bruton mentioned, to bring farmers into the scheme. We heard that there is a false narrative around rewetting that it is about flooding land but it is not. It may reduce the grazing season somewhat but we heard that agriculture can still continue on the land. That is the message that has not gone out. It is not about flooding farmland; it is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I would argue that it is about the non-ACRES piece as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Senator Boylan is our next speaker. I understand Deputy Whitmore needs to leave soon so perhaps she can speak first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I want to ask the Minister about two issues that are not directly under his brief but that he might have some interest and influence in. We spoke earlier about solar farming and an issue has been raised, which I am not sure has come across the Minister's desk, where farmers get a 90% relief on inheriting the land but they forfeit that relief if they use more than 50% of their land for solar...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Does Senator Garvey want to come in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: As no one else is indicating, we will finish up there. I think there are a few issues on which the Minister might revert to us in due course. We are certainly eager to here more on the rewetting plan because 2025 is only two years away. There is a lot of work to do there. Senator Boylan mentioned PFAS. The Minister might provide us with a note on that. Then there are matters on which...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister for his opening statement. If he wants to bring in his officials, we will go into private session as we cannot have them speaking in public session as they were not invited.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Okay. I refer back to those harrowing images we are seeing throughout the country with respect to the burning of gorse and so on. We will have the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in before the committee, so I will put the matter to him then.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Is there an analysis of the 25,000 ha, or indeed the 80,000 ha by 2030, and where that hectarage is going to come from that the Minister could share with the committee? Does the Department know that in detail?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I want to pick up Senator Kyne on his remark on the board members being sacked. As per the Minister's statement, they were not sacked. The Minister said they were removed. I do not want the committee to be seen to be impugning-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: We do not want to be seen to be impugning anybody.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: We are here to discuss the removal of the board and we should not stray from that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: This committee has a role in appointing members of the board.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: The chief executive officer is not here to defend himself. I do not think it is appropriate-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I remind members that the naming of persons outside the House is specifically regulated by Standing Orders and by the rulings of the Chair. The general practice is that such a person should not be named or referred to so as to be identifiable, particularly where to do so would be an unreasonable invasion of privacy or where the reference could be in the nature of being a defamatory utterance...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank Senator O'Reilly and call Senator Dooley to speak now, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank Senator Dooley and call Senator Kyne to speak now, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I apologise for interrupting Senator Kyne but we are making no suggestion of wrongdoing by management.