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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Sorry. I will come back on that one so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: It is regrettable that no representatives from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications are attending this session but they will, I hope, appear before the committee on this theme in the near future. The Acting Chairman might note that we have requested them to attend again. I am very excited by the circular economy, probably to my wife's consternation. I am an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: That is reassuring. There is a strong focus on the retrofitting of local authority houses and the SEAI deals with contractors daily. The anecdotal feedback we are getting suggests the average cost of the retrofitting of a local authority house is in the order of €7,000 above what the local authorities have been approved by the Department. Is the authority bringing pressure to bear...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: In the brief time I have remaining, will Mr. Meally update us on the one-stop shops?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I am not at the moment. I am dialling in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft River Basin Management Plan for Ireland 2022-2027: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I want to thank all of the speakers for coming here today. It has been very informative and helpful. I straddle two committees as well. I am also on the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, so I am familiar with many of the issues that the witnesses raised. It is good to see, particularly in terms of what Teagasc presented, farmers are not being vilified. Too often,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft River Basin Management Plan for Ireland 2022-2027: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Very good. I would be very impressed with the numbers. It is just under 2,900 and follow-up engagement is very strong at 95%. That probably speaks to the belief that this is very much a consultative approach and not a stick approach and that Teagasc is engaging proactively with farmers. Perhaps we need to make farmers more aware that the service is there. At the minute, it is reactive....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft River Basin Management Plan for Ireland 2022-2027: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I have a final question. We will have to do the glass half full and the glass half empty. The half empty part is the non-implementation or not proceeding. We are establishing that it is one in three, which would be a cause for concern. Obviously, farming is very challenged at present, with the war in Ukraine, escalating fuel costs and so forth. Many of the rehabilitative works and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft River Basin Management Plan for Ireland 2022-2027: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I appreciate Teagasc is not making any major announcements today, but what is the level of funding it believes is necessary to try to get this one third of farmers who are not engaging, whether they are not able to engage or not able to follow through?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft River Basin Management Plan for Ireland 2022-2027: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Is that specifically going to farmers for rehabilitative works?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft River Basin Management Plan for Ireland 2022-2027: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank Mr. Meehan. It has been very helpful and informative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Thank you very much. I commend the witnesses on the great work they are doing. They are doing fantastic work but it would be remiss of me, like the two previous speakers, not to take them to task on the couple of lines relating to animal welfare. I appreciate that they are at the coalface and are seeing the absolute worst but right across Ireland, we are very passionate about our horses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I would agree that the LEO is certainly the vehicle to do this. Has Ms Mangan seen any examples in Europe of governments that have done this and how it has worked? She referred to the e-voucher, a €2,000 payment on behalf of the business to an e-mentor or business to help them develop their website. Is she thinking of something like that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Lovely, I would appreciate that. I thank Ms Mangan.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Unions (28 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 30. To ask the Minister for Finance the initiatives that he is taking to expand the credit union sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20525/22]