Results 701-720 of 766 for speaker:Pippa Hackett
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: The background to that is that the science has shown that birds are nesting at the time. It has an impact on them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: I suppose a balance has been struck in that they can operate for five months, not six, as was the case previously. However, I accept the challenges that exist. On the point on the farmers' charter, we have a farmers' charter commitment on licensing. Is it afforestation licences or everything?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: Essentially, if a licence is deemed to be such that it does not need to be screened in for an appropriate assessment, we are committed to issuing that within as close to six months as possible. If an appropriate assessment is needed, the period will be closer to nine months. It could be much quicker than six months. Sometimes we can issue licences in two months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: We based it on our processes and how quickly we have been dealing with licences over the past several months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: Do you want me to respond to some of those questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: I disagree with Deputy Flaherty; I do not believe it is a flawed policy. Even when we engaged extensively in advance of this, the public told us they wanted to see a mix of species in our forest estate. They want to see more trees. It is not ideological. There is not a resistance to conifers. We absolutely need conifer trees, which is something I have articulated at every opportunity....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: Yes, I understand it is a regulation. There is also a LULUCF regulation which basically requires us to maintain the stocks we have from our land use sector, which means for us our forestry in the largest part. Under those regulations we are obliged not to deforest and to at least maintain what we have. We are required under our own Forestry Act to replant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: Environmental, is it? What the LULUCF----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: I do not know about the deforestation regulation. Is that environmental as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: It applies to forestry so we might be dancing on the head of a pin here. I ask Mr. Moore to respond on the carbon credits.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: In response to Deputy Kerrane, I am encouraging farmers to engage with the current reconstitution and underplanting scheme, RUS, because if we come up with another scheme, they will still need to apply for a licence to clear-fell those trees; that will be part of any process. They need to get into that to be in the cycle. If they want to sit back and wait for another couple of months, that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: Probably not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: Yes. Have we any cases of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: I disagree, because a lot of farmers-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: You cannot plant without a licence.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: Does the Deputy mean out of the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: Having said that, there is a limit to what an investor will invest in land to plant with trees. Investors do not have bottomless pockets in that sense because they will not-----
- Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: This is a budget focused on the environment, both in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and across Government. Since this Government took office in 2020 we have made huge strides in the organic sector. I am further backing this with funding of €57 million for organic farmers in 2024, which is more than 50% higher than the provision for organic farming in last year's...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: I thank the Deputy for the question. As she and maybe many Members of the House will be aware, social farming provides a planned outcome-focused support placement for people on a farm using the natural assets of the people, the place, the activities and the community to support a person to achieve some of his or her chosen goals. It has been shown to provide benefits to participants such as...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: I thank the Deputy. As she outlines, social farming is continuing to grow. It certainly is growing year on year and its reach is far, and very much into the lives of many people for their enrichment and that whole connection with people. The social farming network funded by the Department is still in development. We are at a stage of growth. It requires substantial support. Certainly,...