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- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: I will hand it to-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: I will put it in writing, of course.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: I cannot because it is a new section; that is the difficulty. I am proposing that the reply be within three months. I welcome the Minister of State's amendment. However, if within the three months the Minister determines they cannot be considered within the time period provided under section 18(2) he should be required to write back to the person within that initial period and there would...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: I will put it in writing. Basically I am proposing that the Minister would come back within three months to say that it will be the objective-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: I have not-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: I just want the Chairman to be happy that I raised it on Committee Stage.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: It is not at any particular time.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: If the Chairman is saying that we are going to vote now on whether it is agreed that a new section be inserted, then I believe I have a right to discuss-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: The amendment was discussed.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: One can only put down a Report Stage amendment if it has been raised on Committee Stage. That is why I wanted to raise the matter explicitly now. Having raised it, I can put down an amendment.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: Regarding distance from a road, the 1946 Act already provides that where a notice is issued, one can cut down a tree. It is a necessary provision. The Bill proposes that no felling licence would be required where in the opinion of the planning authority a tree is dangerous on account of its age, condition or location. That is very sensible. There is a further provision that no felling...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: The Minister of State said it is important that landowners be able to cut down trees which are dangerous because of their age and condition. I could not possibly argue with that. This section, however, does not facilitate landowners to cut down trees which are dangerous because of their age or condition; it facilitates them to cut down all trees within 10 metres of a public road whether...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: As was I.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: I want to pick up on something the Minister of State said, which makes a lot of sense. He said that good practice requires the retention of individual trees and hedgerows, and that is reflected in section 18(1)(m)(v) which states: "in a hedgerow and felled for the purposes of its trimming, provided that the tree does not exceed 20 centimetres in diameter when measured 1.3 metres from the...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: This issue might be looked at before Report Stage.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: It is not clear.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: Are there many landscape conservation areas? I suspect not, and I suspect the practice varies widely from one local authority to another. Local authorities may have a number of landscape conservation areas while county councils may only have a few. That is not because the landscape in one council is more worthy of protection than another but is due merely to practice. What happens in...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: I appreciate his doing so. I have a problem with the stipulation that trees must be less than 3 cu. m. The law must be discernible and the average punter walking down the street must be able to know whether he is law-abiding. I have discussed the matter with the Minister's officials and I disagree with their views. When I look at a tree I have no idea whether it is 3 cu. m. even though I...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: I do not know whether Deputy Pringle is one either. Let me make a serious point. Can the average landowner look at a tree and know whether or not it is 3 cu. m? I do not think so. As the law is formulated at present, I do not think that the average landowner can determine whether he or she is acting within the law. If an average person cannot discern that then the law is an ass....
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Michael McNamara: Only after cutting down a tree.