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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Is that common practice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Will Ms Lyons give four random examples?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Farmers and agricultural publications will be listening to this meeting. Would Ms Lyons say that the Revenue Commissioners would be proactively positive in trying to assist people to navigate the system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Facilitated?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: When is the clarity guidance documentation Ms Lyons said was being reviewed and prepared likely to be ready and published?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: It is really important to keep that engagement. In the next few days I am heading up to the agricultural show in Balmoral in the North. British revenue service staff attend agricultural shows and set up one-stop shops. I think Revenue may. We talk about simplification of EU regulation and rules and finance and everything else. I have always found the Revenue Commissioners to be very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Ms Lyons for her assistance and help.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Our guests gave a sterling account of themselves. Well done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Secretary General and his team for being with us today. He is a refreshing and interesting Secretary General because of the frankness and honesty of his responses. I genuinely believe that and wanted to put it on the record. We are all realists here and are blue in the face talking forestry. We have disproportionately spent the past four years talking about forestry. Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I wish to wrap up because I am conscious of time. I ask for tight, concise responses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: In the simple terms of “Yes” or “No”, does Mr. Gleeson believe there are enough incentives?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Is that sufficient to bring the private sector in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Mr. Gleeson is confident it will.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: As Mr. Gleeson rightly said, the Department does not plan trees, but it can assist through promotion, engagement and incentivisation. I will just park that with Mr. Gleeson. To wrap up, the nine-month process is too long. Does the Department have sufficient resources to bring that back to six to nine months, ideally six months? It is far too long. We are talking about instilling...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: To wrap up, I refer to the native tree area scheme. In the strategy, it stated these were subject to the completion of the SEA, the AA and the consultation processes. Is that all sorted out now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Will there be an interim review of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Are their many inquiries about it? It sounds like a good scheme. As Mr. Gleeson said, it is a gateway to forestry. It struck me as a reasonable first-step approach and gateway into forestry. What is the uptake?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Is Mr. Gleeson pleased with that or would he like more?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome our distinguished guests from Kenya, who are very welcome. I hope they have a successful visit to the House and to Ireland. I welcome the Dublin city task force, which the Government made preliminary announcements about yesterday and today. I understand a substantial announcement is to be made on Thursday. However, there are serious questions about local government. A very...

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I will take up the option of covering off the three sections here and now. I welcome the Minister of State and thank her for her time and her commitment to this area, which I know is a major priority for her. I thank Senator Clonan for introducing the Bill and also the co-sponsors of the Bill, which includes the Independents, Civil Engagement Group, Labour Party, Sinn Féin and Green...