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Harbours Bill 2015: Second Stage (16 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I thank my colleague, Deputy Fergus O’Dowd, for allowing me to share his time. I welcome the Bill’s provisions and key principles. As an island nation, ports are essential infrastructure that should stay in public ownership. Ports should be competitive and profitable. As a country we import and export many goods. We export food and pharmaceutical products in bulk. There is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Appeals (16 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: 661. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reconsider the refusal of school transport in respect of children (details supplied) in County Wicklow who have special needs and other illnesses. [29855/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: From Irish Farmers with Designated Land, IFDL, I welcome Mr. Liam O'Keeffe, chairman; Mr. Michael Cronin, acting secretary; Mr. Kenneth Fitzgerald, treasurer, and Mr. Jason Fitzgerald. I thank them for attending to discuss issues concerning financial losses to farmers owing to lands being designated as special protection areas for the hen harrier. Witnesses are protected by absolute...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: It would be helpful to have a copy of that documentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: An optional GLAS scheme provides cover for corncrakes, partridges and other birds but it does not have the same level of restrictions as a designation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: It details crops and activities but it is a voluntary scheme, in so far as I am aware.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Deputy Ó Cuív had another question. He asked how long the witnesses think a designation should last in order that the hen harrier can achieve a sustainable number.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I wish to raise a couple of points that nobody else has mentioned. What is the estimated overall cost of a compensation package? A tax on carbon credits adds value. Does the organisation envisage that people could buy carbon credits? If one is assigned so many credits, can another organisation buy them? In the States, some organisations buy such credit. It would form part of an income...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Is it a holding measure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Before the rest of the delegation responds, I call on Senator Ó Domhnaill to comment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Mr. Cronin can go ahead, all questions have been asked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: This is a three-month period. We have to move on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: In a way, the more relevant point is that when the window for appeal was open-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: There was an expectation that there was a scheme available and that wind turbines and forestry were generally permitted. That changed and has undermined the whole thing, leaving all bar 378 of the 3,800 farmers with no compensation. It has curtailed their ability to farm the land to make a living. The only thing they have going for them is whatever basic single farm payment entitlements...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Forestry is slightly different to commercial development because someone can get a planting licence. If every other measure was put in front of that land, and the farmer was granted a forestry licence in error, for example, and then the authority realised it was in a hen harrier designated zone, it would have to say, "Sorry, we cannot allow it go ahead". That is really what the witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: We have had a difficulty in Wicklow, as the gentleman in the Visitors Gallery will know, with native woodland species because of deer. It qualifies under all other aspects but because of the deer threat it has not been quite so straightforward. The Forestry Service has started granting them again but it has been very difficult. A locally-led environment scheme on its own is not going to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I presume most of the lands were included in the old disadvantaged areas scheme, DAS, and are now in ANCs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: No. I am referring to the disadvantaged areas scheme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Most of the land would be classified already. Most of it seems to be in the classic category of mountain land or uplands.