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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: There is clear evidence in this stretch from Killarney, through Millstreet, to Macroom. There has been a huge increase as a result of more deer coming into that area. The view is that the deer moved because of the damage done by fires around the Killarney lakes area. What action did the Department take to deal with that issue? We now have a whole lot of farms locked up as a result of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: I want to go back to the TB issue and the progress that can be made over the next decade. Almost €1 billion will be spent between 2021 and 2030. What can we do to make better progress? Is there a clear plan set out by the Department to improve testing and address the issue of genomics and other relevant issues? On the basis of the scientific evidence that is now there, what is the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: Let us say the Department is back here in four years. Does Dr. Fanning believe we will have made progress on this issue? Will we have reduced the number of farms that have to be locked up on a year-to-year basis? Does Dr. Fanning honestly believe that we will have made progress on that in a four- or five-year period?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: I want to move on to forestry and the difficulties we have had in the sector. In 2021, for example, less than half of the target area was planted. What changes have we made in this area? We have significant targets to reach. What can we do to deal with the issues? There were large numbers of objections, right across the board, to applications for planting, felling licences, road-opening...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: In relation to the targets set for planting, does Mr. Gleeson believe that, over the next five years, we can achieve those targets in view of the delays that have occurred over the last five years? We have a lot of catching up to do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: One of the things that has arisen and that has landed in my office is the situation where someone has received a felling licence but they cannot get a road opening licence, and even though they have a right of way to the land, they are being refused the road opening licence. They invested in this 20 to 25 years ago - it was a pension fund - but they now find they are landlocked. There has...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: They are saying the environmental issues have changed. They have been told that where the road would go in is too close to a stream, but that was not identified 25 years ago when they got the planting licence. What I am saying to Mr. Gleeson is that all of these need to be flagged up if people are investing money. They are now in a situation where they are landlocked as a result, and they...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: To go back to the planting issue, in 2021, we only achieved half of the target. To take 2023 and 2024, will the targets set for those years be achieved right across the board, from the felling of timber to planting and the opening up of new investment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: Will the targets be reached?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: Is that this year or next year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: Will we achieve it in 2024 or 2025?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: In fairness, the local authorities did not build the houses themselves; they got contractors in to build them. However, the whole process of getting local authorities to get work done is just a minefield. I will give the committee an example. In my constituency there was a private housing estate finished and ready to occupy recently, and it took eight weeks to get a county council engineer...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: That is what I am saying. They are not built by local authority employees, which is my point. If you go back 30 years, workers were employed by local authorities to physically build houses. That has all changed. All of these houses were built by contractors contracted with the local authority.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: Absolutely.
- Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)
Colm Burke: I have no difficulty in principle but the period of three months is way too tight. In fairness to the Department there is a fair bit of work involved in that. If the three-month period was modified I would certainly take serious consideration of the amendment but that timeframe is far too tight.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action his Department has taken to date regarding the evacuation of Irish citizens from Sudan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21036/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Cybersecurity Policy (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 115. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the measures his Department is taking in order to improve and strengthen Ireland’s cybersecurity defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21037/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the process that is in place for those who hold Ukrainian driving licences to be assessed by the NDLS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20948/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action his Department is taking to improve modes of public transport, in particular the national bus service, given that passenger numbers have in some cases exceeded pre-Covid levels, resulting in capacity issues on many bus routes across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21032/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action his Department is taking to ensure stronger security measures across all Irish airports in light of recent events of drone activity at Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21033/23]