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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (2 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 1248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of afforestation licences his Department expects to issue before the end of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53088/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (2 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 1249. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of hectares his Department forecasts will be afforested in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53089/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: In his budget speech, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, allocated €30 million for new drugs to ensure our citizens have access to the best high-tech drugs available globally. I have made the case that Epidiolex should be reimbursed by the HSE numerous times in the House. It is a life-saving cannabis-based drug that can prevent serious seizures in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (3 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 150. To ask the Minister for Health if epidiolex has been passed for reimbursement by the HSE following the additional allocation in Budget 2022 to cater for new drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53467/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (3 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 151. To ask the Minister for Health when a bed will be made available for a person (details supplied) in the National Rehabilitation Centre in Dún Laoghaire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53468/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (4 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 284. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the regularisation of the title for Nenagh military barracks; his plans for the site once this is completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53732/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (4 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 389. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 229 of 14 October 2021, if dead or dying trees require a tree felling licence; if dead or dying or rotting trees are not exempted trees and a farmer that fells an ash plantation without a felling licence will be subjected to the full legal rigours and implications of section 19 of the Forestry...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: For the second session of today's meeting, we are joined by representatives of Embrace FARM. I welcome Ms Norma Rohan, co-founder and general manager, Mr. Brian Rohan, co-founder and chairperson, and Ms Catherine Collins, development manager. The witnesses are all very welcome to the meeting. The witnesses will be given ten minutes to make their opening statement, before we go into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: On behalf of the committee, I thank Ms Rohan. It was as heart-rending an opening statement as I have ever heard in this committee room. Unfortunately, we have all walked into sitting rooms and living rooms after a tragic accident on a farm. Ms Rohan's portrayal of the devastation that it causes is all too accurate. We have also seen incidents where farmers have been badly hurt or injured...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: You were well able to do it, whereas others might not be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I mean that you had the wherewithal to do it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: At our next private meeting we will put together a letter to send to the Minister on regularising the funding for Embrace. It is, as I said at the start, a charity doing invaluable work. It is about more than the fatalities. Where someone is injured, the problems may not be as bad but there can be huge financial issues for a family when someone gets badly hurt. At our next private meeting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: As a committee, when we meet next we will discuss putting a formal request to the Minister to get Embrace onto a formal footing going forward. You all took on this work on a voluntary basis. Unfortunately, it was born out of tragedy you had in your own families on your own farms. We will try to get this formalised and get it on a formal footing. What Deputy Martin Browne said about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: We will get the initial discussions going with the Department. On the model Embrace has, our guests are far more knowledgeable than anyone else about what is needed out there. I do not think the Department or we as a committee are going to prescribe to our guests. They know exactly what is needed and how to go about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: We can open up the discussions. It might be better we do it formally and that we have a structure of what we want to ask together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Mr. Rohan.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (9 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the implementation of the Programme for Government commitments relating to credit unions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54372/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 156. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of businesses in counties Tipperary and Limerick, respectively that have registered under the business resumption support scheme in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54371/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (9 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 195. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there will be a payment under National Just Transition Fund for owners of bogs that are not permitted for cutting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54543/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 463. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the working family payment is not considered a qualifying social welfare payment for the back to education allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54142/21]