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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there not an onus on Coillte given that it is steering the forestry sector for the State? As the witnesses have already admitted, for the past two years the acreage of forestry has not been increased, or if it has, the increase has been small. We are talking about climate change. Either because the Government did not give Coillte grants or for whatever other reason, Coillte did not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Obviously, Coillte's main priority is to make sure it has enough timber for mills to keep them going.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Coillte sowed lodgepole pine on top of bogs, which was a waste of time. Others did the same. I am not just focusing on Coillte. Is the Department still insisting on a planting obligation in that regard? How much of the LIFE programme funding from Europe has Coillte received?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am not saying Ms Hurley did not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is that with the National Parks and Wildlife Service?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Coillte get the money from the EU?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Could the witnesses come back to the sequestration figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Ms Hurley talked about the tonnage, so I thought she would be able to tell me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Could someone come back to the committee on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That Coillte paid out to the-----

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Pharmacy Services (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 218. To ask the Minister for Health if the pharmacy cuts set to be imposed, which will see the service of phased medication for vulnerable persons significantly reduced or wiped out, will be overturned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51967/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 253. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if section 9.2 of the terms and conditions of the beef exceptional aid measure can be changed to ensure that the immediate previous owner of an animal presented for slaughter within 30 days of it being purchased will receive the €100 payment regardless of whether the person who purchased the animal was an agent, dealer or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Chair. I must have 15 minutes at this stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will start with a quick-fire round. I have a question for Mr. Murphy. I will not mention the companies involved but am I correct in saying that cut-offs and waste timber left over from a site can be used for different processing or generation activities in Northern Ireland but that the EPA will not grant people in the South licences to use timber in that way? Mr. McAuley asked why...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I want quick answers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: When one puts up a timber roof there may be pieces left. This is called used timber even though it was never used. In the North one can bring it to Balcas or another company. One can get a licence for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is a simple way of doing this. When the single farm payment application goes out to farmers, the Department should give them €50 extra and ask them the number and type of trees on their lands. If they have been growing since 1990, they should count.