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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: Okay, so the target is for 9,000 ha of planting in 2022.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: That is not what I am asking the Minister of State. This is important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: The Minister of State flagged the programme for Government document-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: It does not have a target of potential licences being issued.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: Yes. If the Minister of State allows me to finish the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: The programme for Government does not say that this Government plans to issue licences for 8,000 ha of afforestation. The programme for Government commits the Government to delivering 8,000 ha of planting. The Government is now in its third year and it cannot even give us a figure as to what its target is for the end of this year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: How many hectares will be planted?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: No other Minister or anybody in public life would be allowed to come and say here is a key target that I have been given in the programme for Government but I cannot say how close we are going to get to reaching the target because it is the fault of other people if it does not happen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: That is essentially what the Minister of State is saying.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: Here is the crux of it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: The Minister of State says we "could". She does not have a target.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: And the Minister of State reached half of that last year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: I welcome our guests back to the committee. The mechanism the Department and the Minister in particular have been using is becoming increasingly frustrating. It is a long-standing practice but it has become particularly prevalent where news of a headline scheme is leaked and we are all reading through different newspapers and columns to try to get the pertinent information. Generally...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: Going back to the levy, Mr. Buckley is speaking about it as if it is still a live prospect. Is that what the IFA has taken from its deliberations with the Department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: All right, but did the association get the sense from its discussions with the Department that it was amenable to the option of this type of scheme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: I thank our guests for attending. In terms of the role of the industry in the current crisis, is it Mr. Carroll's position that the sector cannot pay more than it is currently paying and that there is no further scope for that? Is there a particular reason for there being such a disparity between the prices being paid in Ireland and the EU average? I have more questions, but perhaps I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: Yes, I will get those specifics first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: What is the EU average price now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: I have some short questions and I ask for brief responses. I am conscious of the time. We were discussing earlier with representatives from the IFA the potential for what would essentially be a loan scheme, with funds allocated to that scheme being paid back through a levy. Would the witnesses see the meat industry as having the capacity to put money towards such a scheme?