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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector and Climate Action Plan: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: I thank the Minister of State. There is no doubt that forestry has a central role to play in carbon mitigation by virtue of its sequestration properties. It is, therefore, critical to any climate action plan. I note the three pillar approach based on reducing emissions, increasing carbon sequestration and displacing fossil fuels by renewable resources. We are talking about 11% of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector and Climate Action Plan: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: That is the hole in the bucket and this is why I asked the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector and Climate Action Plan: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: Yes, but what about the people who are actually directly affected themselves?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector and Climate Action Plan: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: I said that, yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector and Climate Action Plan: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: That is imported.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector and Climate Action Plan: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: I have one important question on behalf of the ash owners. The Minister of State has basically admitted something that is true and, in fairness to the Minister of State, it is to his credit. The ash owners are the people who lost out and they remain so. Everybody else got a few bob out of the €4.4 million except them. When the Minister of State is looking at the scheme perhaps...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: I thank Mr. Walsh for his concise presentation. It was more valuable because it was concise. On the reconstitution scheme, I understood the Minister to say that 1,600 ha have been restored at a cost of €4.4 million. I asked him this question and I thought he said there was another 16,000 ha. That would mean another €44 million or €45 million in compensation would be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: I would say there are at least 1,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: That gives us the answer. There are 2,400 farmers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: Does that mean the grant went to the people who removed the trees?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: Effectively.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: Those forest owners were left with zero.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: A farmer would be in an awful state over the detection of brucellosis in his herd, but this is the equivalent of that for those owners. As bad as the other schemes are, these owners have ended up with nothing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: No grant for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issue of Abuse of Greyhounds: Bord na gCon (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: I thank Mr. Nyhan and the others for coming in. I have to say that in 27 years of service in the Dáil I have never had such a reaction conveyed to me by members of the public and, indeed, some of my colleagues, including Deputy Kelly, registering their deep disgust and annoyance at the contents of that RTÉ programme. It was an important public service broadcast by the station....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issue of Abuse of Greyhounds: Bord na gCon (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: A reply to a parliamentary question states that the Department "was aware in 2017 that the interim CEO of Bord na gCon, who was in place at that time, had commissioned an in-depth business model analysis of the organisation". The Department was aware of the report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issue of Abuse of Greyhounds: Bord na gCon (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: I am referring to a question asked on 3 July 2019. The reply states: "My Department was aware in 2017 that the interim CEO of Bord na gCon, who was in place at that time, had commissioned an in-depth business model analysis of the organisation."
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issue of Abuse of Greyhounds: Bord na gCon (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: It is peculiar that the report was completed in 2017 but the Department did not receive it until 24 May 2019.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issue of Abuse of Greyhounds: Bord na gCon (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: Where was the report for two years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issue of Abuse of Greyhounds: Bord na gCon (9 Jul 2019)
Willie Penrose: If the report was no use and in the bin, why was it furnished to the Minister?