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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Did Mr. Bruton say 7,000?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it 7,000 licences for felling and planting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How many applications or licences are needed to meet the planting under the climate budget of 8,000 ha?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What is an average licence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: So 40% or 50% will not do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is 140 licences per week for planting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I apologise for interrupting Mr. Bruton. Will he return to the plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I will pose only two more questions because I want to let my colleagues in. Where stands the nurseries if the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, introduces an eco scheme next year for the planting of different varieties? I had some discussions with the farming organisations earlier in the week, which I presume the organisations did as well, on the draft document in regard to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What is keeping the sector going?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Has Mr. Ryan seen the draft legislation? Is he aware of it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: A draft document has been seen by the farmer organisations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is Mr. Ryan saying that after 25 meetings, the group has achieved nothing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How long is that going on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: In that time they have got through 186 applications.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How did they do it? Did GLAS apply to one part of a holding and the planting was on another?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: On those 5,000 licences, the reason is that those people have moved on. I know several people who now have green grass where they were going to sow forestry because they were waiting three years. I am telling the Minister of State that in case she did not know. With regard to afforestation in 2020 and 2021, which would she call the worst year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: In afforestation licences. Which would she class as the worst year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Issued.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If we think we have made progress, and I have been doing the figures, there are 32 ha more in the first three months this year than we had in 2020, the worst year ever. If one adds 2021, we are down approximately 200 ha in licences issued. Does the Minister of State think that is progress?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister of State said earlier in her opening statement that she made progress.