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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: I call Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: Okay. Are there any further questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: That is the reason we are having a discussion here about the future of the tillage sector. We have had different representatives before us showing the lack of profitability in the tillage sector and the problem is acreage is dropping year by year. That is the reason that we are analysing the sector and analysing where it is going. In fairness, the witnesses have answered the question about...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (18 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 166. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to remove the 20% rule on planting unenclosed land and replace it with a system that assesses productivity and environmental suitability for forestry; the evidence used to calculate the 20% figure; and if other European countries have such a rule. [44126/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (18 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 167. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers and non-farmers participating in planting schemes under the forest programme 2014 to 2020. [44127/17]

Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: Coillte and Bord na Móna are two key players in delivering the forestry targets contained in the programme for Government. The decision by Coillte to stop buying wood pulp from private operators in the forestry sector sends a very bad signal to the industry. Those operators have no other outlet for their wood pulp. In the context of meeting our climate change targets on biomass, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stamp Duty (24 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 99. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the family home will be treated for stamp duty when being transferred to a son or daughter to be used as the recipient's primary residence; the way it will be treated in cases in which the recipient has a separate primary residence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45049/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly Provision (24 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 283. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in County Tipperary under headings (details supplied) that were available at all HSE facilities within the county for each of the years 2010 to 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45080/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly Provision (24 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 284. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the growing number of persons on waiting lists for admission to the Hospital of the Assumption, Thurles, County Tipperary, for step-down care following care at an acute hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45081/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Renewable Energy Directive: Discussion (24 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: Chairman, may I-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Renewable Energy Directive: Discussion (24 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: The point was made-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Renewable Energy Directive: Discussion (24 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: At the moment wood pulp has no market. It cannot be sold. Private operators are thinning forests at the moment and cannot sell the product. They are piling it up. Coillte is allowing that to happen. I blame Coillte for it. Thinning at the moment has no economic value. People planted forests in the expectation that when they thinned their forests, it would have a value at ten, 15 or 20...

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: The banks cannot be trusted to act honestly or fairly with their customers. If any proof was needed, the tracker mortgage scandal of recent weeks is that proof. However, it is only the latest in a long line of misconduct. Fine Gael, in government since 2011, has allowed the banks to have a veto on family mortgage arrears. The damage to people's health and to families caused by the callous...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety Scheme (25 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 230. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value in euro received by Teagasc, either nationally or through the EU, for farm safety initiatives in each of the years 2010 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45140/17]

National Planning Framework: Statements (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: The previous Deputy said he was speaking as our spokesperson for the Dublin area. I will be parochial in my comments as well. I am speaking as a Deputy for Tipperary. In terms of balanced regional development, the draft document most definitely does not fulfil that title. The Government gave a commitment that this new national planning framework would not be business as usual and would...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Activities (26 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 218. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will request Coillte to treat the independent growers and suppliers to it fairly in accepting the first and second thinnings and pulp which is a byproduct of the industry in the autumn and vital for their business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45560/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Activities (26 Oct 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the medium and long-term plans Coillte has in managing and developing in the interests of all parties the contract arrangements with private growers and suppliers to it in view of the fact that arrangements are not satisfactory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45561/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Retention (7 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 140. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions she has taken to protect jobs at a company (details supplied) which was severely damaged by Storm Ophelia recently and saw thousands of trees destroyed; the funds that are available at national and EU level in this regard to safeguard full time and part time jobs in this business which saw its stock impacted by this...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (7 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 260. To ask the Minister for Finance the criteria used by the banks in each of the years 2009 to 2016 and to date in 2017 whereby a hire purchase loan could be sold to vulture funds at a discount; the type of calculation or formula that was used to determine that a loan was impaired and that it could be sold to a third party; if the Central Bank monitored or issued parameters whereby hire...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (7 Nov 2017)

Jackie Cahill: 261. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of hire purchase loans that were sold to third party unregulated vulture funds annually in each of the years 2009 to 2016 and to date in 2017 by a bank (details supplied) or other companies associated with or to the bank; the value of these loans annually, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47026/17]