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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: They still have to spend it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: It would not cover that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: I cut turf and drove machines too.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: Many of us have done that around here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: There is no premium for them initially for the replanting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: There is no upfront payment. I will move on to the huge problem we have in my part of the country with the windblow since Christmas. A lot of forestry was blown down. A lot of it has been granted licences. Some had licences already. Many have been issued licences since. There are still some problems in getting licences for people where various objections have been lodged and different...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: It is only pulp timber.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: Will the Minister of State have anything more for them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: I ask the Minister of State to reconsider that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: I only 50 seconds left. How many hectares of timber are planted in the State at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: It is 880,000 ha.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: If I divide that by 9,500 jobs, it makes one job per 92 ha approximately. The point is that in my part of the country many people are negative about forestry. The reason is that whole parishes and townlands have been wiped out because farm after farm has been planted, not usually by farmers, but by companies which bought the land farmers could not compete for. There is a lot of negativity....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: I do not have time to respond to the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: I understand.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that all children who meet the criteria for a special needs class will get a place in a special needs class in September 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38426/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a new primary school for Carrick on Shannon; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38425/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (15 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: 917. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will conduct interviews for home care workers in the south Leitrim area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39061/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Kenny: 928. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent on building new schools in the North West in the past 5 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46287/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Kenny: 929. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new schools built in the North West in the past 5 years; the location of the schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46288/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Sales (8 Sep 2025)

Martin Kenny: 1831. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will review the maximum valuation given for TB reactor cattle to bring it in line with current market value for cattle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47219/25]