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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (16 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 713. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Ambulance Service will commit to privileging courses as a previously set out course or commence a new course, with a new structure, content and contract for staff who enrol in it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16422/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: The Taoiseach will be well aware of the disaster area in my constituency, Lough Funshinagh. The situation is worsening hour by hour and water is continuing to rise. As I stand here today, a fifth home looks like it will need to be evacuated. Water is now flowing towards Curraghboy village. An overflow pipe – a temporary and emergency measure – is 60% installed. I met the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tillage Sector (17 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 102. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total area of tillage land in the State, in hectares; the number of tillage farms; and the average farm size, in hectares. [16912/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (17 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 103. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of participants under the tillage capital investment scheme; the total area of land; and the average farm size of those partaking. [16913/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (17 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 104. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of participants under the tillage incentive scheme; the total area of land; and the average farm size of those partaking. [16914/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (17 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 105. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of extending the tillage capital investment scheme to farmers with less than 15 ha of owned, leased or rented lands. [16915/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (17 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 106. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a breakdown of the total number of applications for the reconstitution scheme for ash dieback; the number of approvals to date; and the total area and the average size of plantations affected by ash dieback that have applied for the reconstitution scheme, in tabular form. [16916/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (17 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 107. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a breakdown of the capital and current funding allocated to the reconstitution scheme for ash dieback in 2023 and 2024, respectively, in tabular form. [16917/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (17 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 108. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of increasing the site clearance grant rates and replanting grant rates under the reconstitution scheme for ash dieback by 10%, 20% and 30%, respectively. [16918/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (17 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 109. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual cost of a 10%, 20% and 30% increase in the area of plantations approved for aid under the reconstitution scheme for ash dieback, in tabular form, for each of the years 2025 to 2029. [16919/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (17 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 110. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of increasing funding for the reconstitution scheme for ash dieback by 1%, 2% and 10%, respectively. [16920/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing: Irish Harness Racing Association (17 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the witnesses for appearing and for their presentation. I will be honest that this is new to me. It is not an area I am overly familiar with, but they have made their argument well and have given us a detailed opening statement. The committee is at least now clear as to where they are at, but the witnesses are in a process of which we do not know the final outcome. Most questions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing: Irish Harness Racing Association (17 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: I presume that meeting with the Minister, Deputy McGrath, was fairly recent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing: Irish Harness Racing Association (17 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: When was that meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing: Irish Harness Racing Association (17 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: Okay. I thank Mr. Flanagan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte CGA: Chairperson Designate (17 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: I wish Ms Jupp the best of luck in her new role. I hope it goes well for her. What are the responsibilities of the chairperson of Coillte? I ask because I am not overly familiar with them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte CGA: Chairperson Designate (17 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: Would Ms Jupp, as someone starting out in her role, be willing to share her view, if she can, on where forestry is at today in Ireland generally?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte CGA: Chairperson Designate (17 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: Ms Jupp said she wants to hear the views of the committee members on forestry and the new forestry programme. The committee has done a lot of work and, despite its cross-party membership, it is very much concerned as a unit about the forestry programme as it stands. I am just back from attending a briefing by Forest Industries Ireland, at which Coillte was represented. At every meeting I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte CGA: Chairperson Designate (17 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: I thank Ms Jupp. The best of luck to her.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: It is good to be able to stand here with my constituency colleagues and speak to Deputy O'Donnell, as a Minister of State, who has been down to Lough Funshinagh and seen it with his own eyes because one really has to see it to believe it. He will be well aware of the trauma of older people, in particular, in that community, looking at their life's work totally ruined before their eyes and...