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- 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 has in small patches around Connemara but I do not see any sign of it on Slieve Aughty or Slieve Barna, and I live beside both. The spokesperson for the Gresham House investment fund has talked about 60% Sitka spruce and 25% broadleaf, with the remainder to be rewilded. I presume that if you leave something to rewild for long enough, it will eventually become a broadleaf forest. There...
- 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: If there is to be a 50:50 ratio on all forestry Coillte manages, does that mean there will be more than 50% broadleaf on its own lands to compensate for the less than 50% on the lands involved in its partnership with this private investment fund?
- 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: The Minister of State is talking about the new stuff.
- 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 is buying Sitka spruce and is going to replant it on 60% of the land so there is no prospect of meeting that 50:50 ratio. If it is buying Sitka spruce and is going to replant at the ratio of 60-----
- 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: Are we talking about Gresham House or Coillte 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: Gresham House will not have the 50:50 ratio.
- 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: However, the Ministers will agree that vast swathes of forestry that is 100% Sitka spruce are not very attractive to visit compared with a broadleaf forestry.
- 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: When is Coillte going to start with this 50:50 ratio for replanting on all clear-felled lands?
- 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 know there are examples but when is Coillte going to start this 50:50 ratio in order that for every 20 ha that are clear-felled, 10 ha will be replanted with broadleaf species and 10 ha with Sitka spruce?
- 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 know there are examples and I know where they are but is Mr. Hayes telling me that, as we speak, for every acre Coillte replants with Sitka spruce, another acre is being replanted with broadleaf species to get us to this 50:50 ratio? Has that commenced or 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: Is it doing it or not? I am not interested in visions because-----
- 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: -----visions are not really-----
- 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 does managing for nature mean? That is nonsense. It is either broadleaf or it is not. We need something concrete. What does managing for nature mean?
- 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 is also incredibly vague and unspecific-----
- 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: -----and ultimately includes nothing that Coillte can be pinned down on. The Minister said the Coillte approach is not one that he would favour. 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: Am I correct in saying that Deputy McConalogue nominally holds the State's shareholding as Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine? I think I am.
- 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: Generally, if the board and management of a bank, telecoms company or so on do something that the shareholders do not like, they go. Does the Minister have confidence in the board and management of Coillte given that they have implemented a policy he does not find favourable?
- 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 have a final question.
- 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: The Minister says it is not legally possible because there is a legal agreement in place and he does not want to interfere with that but if it was legally possible to stop it, would he stop it? Lots of companies have a contract to advertise gambling, for example. Regarding the Government banning the advertising of gambling, when it banned the advertising of tobacco products, those contracts...
- 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: Well it is not; I will have a Private Members' Bill in the Dáil.