Results 301-320 of 766 for speaker:Pippa Hackett
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Okay. Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: I cannot give a definitive amount because ultimately it depends on the number of afforestation licences we get in from farmers. That is the biggest thing. Even the area for which licences came in last year, and I do not have those figures, falls short. The licences to plant that came in last year were well short of the 8,000 ha. Even if we issued every afforestation licence last year, we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: That does not help, but there is also the issue that there are approximately 5,000 ha already licensed in the past year or so where landowners and farmers are sitting on a licence. My Department has written to those individuals to find out what the issue is, whether we can help them and to ask why they are not planting. The Senator is right about confidence, and we need to work collectively...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: In the levels?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Does the Deputy mean issued or planted?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: It was 2020.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Nobody is denying that we-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Yes, progress has been made.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: It is progress in terms of what our projections are and in terms of how we have moved resources and will move more resources into afforestation. We can look at blunt figures and pick one quarter against another quarter, but I believe we must look at the bigger picture. Our projections are for the year. Perhaps in future we need to break it down month-by-month or week-by-week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: I understand it is three or four.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: There are 21.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: It is movement. To be honest, and I am sure the Deputy has read the report, many of those are not simply a matter of clicking one's fingers and it is done. Processes have to be put in place to enable the implementation of many of those elements. There is a lot of comparison with the Scottish model and while there are some similarities, there are also some very stark differences between...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Yes. It is a pernicious plant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: It is not a stunt.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: It is native planting. Perhaps in 40, 50 or 60 years, we will have hardwood processing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: No, if we look-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Sorry, Deputy, you heard from the Save groups before I came in here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Surely the Deputy has to absorb some of their concerns about the areas where they live that have been overrun by spruce plantations. We cannot ignore this. This is the position we are at. We have two opposing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: I do not know where that understanding came from. The overall plantation rate includes all trees. We do not say we are planting 8,000 ha of commercial forestry or spruce.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: That is just on afforestation licences.