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- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: One can argue it every way. There are trees along the roads beside which we all live that have been there for generations and they have not been cut down. People cut them down. I have trees on my own land at home which I will not cut down unless they are a danger. I was very fearful that some of them would fall during the last storm.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: They did not fall. I am happy to leave them there and that is the general view among people who have trees. One can pick out extreme cases. This is about road safety. We all saw the large trees that fell around the country recently. There were cars parked in the car park of the Hotel Minella in Clonmel during coursing week, and the night of the bad storm, trees crashed down and badly...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: I move amendment No. 82: In page 18, to delete lines 28 to 32 and substitute the following: “(iii) on an agricultural holding and removed by the owner for use on that holding, provided—(I) it does not form part of a decorative avenue or ring of trees, (II) its volume does not exceed 3 cubic metres, and (III) the removal of it, by the owner for the foregoing purpose, when taken...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: The Deputy's concerns will be addressed in amendment No. 88.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: The Deputy's concerns will be addressed when we come to deal with amendment No. 88.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: We will deal with that again when we reach amendment No. 88.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: Essentially.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: The management of hedgerows includes the regular trimming and cutting of species such as hawthorn and blackthorn to ensure they are maintained in a stock proof condition. The exemption of these species also takes into account the natural capacity of these species to produce vigorous growth when cut. Tabling an amendment to limit the exemption to below a certain size of these species would...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: I am surprised.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: It is because of their management and their way of operating the-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: It is a safety issue.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: We will get clarification on it.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: The Bill-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: The Bill provides that a farmer can manage the hedgerows. There is an exemption in respect of the blackthorn and the hawthorn, but the Bill allows for the matters raised by the Deputies.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: The basis for a size threshold is to strike a balance, as the Deputy mentioned, between allowing farmers to manage hedgerows actively and reducing requirements for felling licences. The effect of placing a 20 cm threshold means that a farmer can manage hedgerows in accordance with good agricultural practice without being required to apply for a licence. Reducing the threshold to 10 cm,...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: Yes.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: It is not in the Deputy's nature.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: We have come to know that.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: I have limited the exemption from the licensing requirement by excluding trees greater than 3 cu. m in volume. This is a large tree and should remain within the licensing system. It is important to understand that the Bill's primary purpose is forestry, the sustainable management of forests and, in appropriate circumstances, the protection of other important trees in the wider landscape. ...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Tom Hayes: It is amendment No. 88, which is the next amendment to be discussed.