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- Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (25 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: I can move amendment No. 41 then, as it has not been formally moved yet.
- Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (25 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: I will discuss amendment No. 42. I do not understand the Minister's idea that this interferes with judicial independence. It merely states that if somebody challenges the making of a high-risk vendor notice, the Minister can go to court and provide it with all of the reasons he or she determines that the high-risk vendor notice is appropriate, much of which I anticipate will be based on...
- Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (25 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: The Minister of State has said that of course national security information cannot be made available to the appellant and recited in open court to be written about. That is not the way our legal system has operated up to now. Essentially, the Garda, the Director of Public Prosecutions or whoever is prosecuting a case has a determination to make. They have evidence and have two choices. If...
- Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (25 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: Okay, on that basis I will be pressing the amendment.
- Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (25 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: I move amendment No. 41: In page 26, lines 39 and 40, to delete “or public order”. I believe the Minister has already agreed to accept this amendment.
- Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (25 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: I move amendment No. 42: In page 27, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: “(7) Where the High Court grants an order under subsection (6), the consideration and determination of the appeal under section 28 shall be carried out by a different judge of the High Court who shall only hear such relevant material as has been provided to the appellant.”.
- Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (25 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: No. The Minister's amendment will have the same effect, as he has just pointed out.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Levy (24 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: 233. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any plans to abolish the Government pension levy introduced in tandem with the jobs initiative in 2011, as the jobs initiative has now concluded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2890/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (24 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: 522. To ask the Minister for Health if he has any plans to increase the threshold for medical card holders in line with increases in budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2888/23]
- Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: This deal has made people sit up and take a look at the role of investment funds in protecting or enhancing the environment, and at Coillte’s relationship with investment funds. Both are important matters to consider. A number of questions arise. Why did Coillte select Gresham House? What procurement process was put in place? Gresham House came up with a great blurb but it is not...
- Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: -----I am sure the Minister of State has seen, given that it is from the head of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Environment to the principal officer of the forestry division within the Minister of State's Department. The Commission’s letter talked about: inappropriate afforestation of sensitive habitats such as peatlands and negative effects on areas of high...
- Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: What about reforestation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: Both the Minister and the Minister of State met Coillte last week. I presume its representatives outlined the structure of this agreement and the Gresham House ownership structures. It is my understanding that Coillte cannot draw down state aid because the State owns the land. The premia cannot be paid because they would be paid over to the State. With regard to Gresham House, I read that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: A discussion took place about the maximum amount of money - essentially, ISIF money is pretty much Exchequer funding - that could be provided to this entity while allowing the other investors to get the premia. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: There are standing trees on much of the land in question so existing forestry is being bought. How does that advance afforestation in any way?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: It does not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: What is stopping it implementing that 50:50 ratio now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: I live in Scariff and there is a great deal of forestry between Scariff, Gort and Loughrea. I have invited the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, to visit. We await that visit. Up to now, anything that has-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: I will send an invitation in a carriage if the Minister of State wishes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Michael McNamara: There has been nothing stopping Coillte carrying out environmentally sustainable forestry up to now and it has not done so. Why the sudden commitment?