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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Rental Sector (10 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive response. He said it will be 2023 before we have the regulations brought forward, which is disappointing for patrons in my part of the world. The blight of trying to get a house will continue for at least another 12 months at this rate. These regulations need to be brought forward immediately. I ask that the Minister of State clarify...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: I would like to mention an issue that has been raised by many Senators, namely, the energy crisis that we are dealing with at the moment. Oil prices, in particular, are reaching nearly €200 a barrel today. I think this is considered to be the largest energy shock we have ever seen in the history of the new world, as they say. It puts us in a completely different space. We need to...

Seanad: Proposal for a Council Decision on Hate Speech and Hate Crime: Motion (10 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: I want to comment on the news coming from the Cabinet today that the food ombudsman legislation is being moved forward, which is something we need to welcome. This House needs to be actively involved in that engagement. We spoke about having the ability to put a body in place to help the food industry, to help the farmer at the farm gate and to show there is the ability to get a fair price....

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: The Seanad has debated this issue at length three times. We have discussed it at length, gone around the House and asked the Department for clarification and to address issues regarding a just transition for these communities. Three communities will be affected, with 35 jobs lost and 35 families affected, and the three farming families will lose their incomes. This will happen not because...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: I acknowledge the Minister of State and thank him for his contribution this evening. We have had hours on this debate and building trust has been a big issue for us. I acknowledge the contribution made by my learned colleague from Galway, Senator Crowe, about the lack of communication. That is a significant issue we have had here. When we have met the farmers, the Minister gave us the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: I thought the Leas-Chathaoirleach was going to call Senator Conway, who has just come into the Chamber, rather than me.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: I raise the issue of how local authorities are using section 38 of the Road Traffic Act 1994, which allows council executives to make decisions on road traffic issues, including on such matters as the provision of footpaths, public lighting, pedestrian crossings and cycleways. Traditionally, this process would have involved the provisions set out in Part 8 of the Planning and Development...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: I raise the crisis in the pig industry. Since last September, the industry has seen huge losses on a continuing basis. I was talking to pig producers in Barryroe on Friday evening. They have been losing up to €50 per pig on a continuous basis since last September. These are multimillion euro losses. It is affecting both the milling companies and the manufacturing of the product...

Seanad: Impact on Farming Sector Arising from the Situation in Ukraine: Statements (29 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: The Minister is more than welcome to the Chamber. I sympathise with the Ukrainian people and, in particular, the Ukrainian farmers who are stuck on the horns of a dilemma at the moment. When they should be out working the fields, they are in the middle of a war zone. I do not know, and can only imagine, what they are going through. I pass on my sympathies to them on what they are going...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report Stage (29 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: This is a very interesting debate about where and what we plant. Given what is happening throughout Ireland, whether through schools, community organisations or farming groups, this ethos of planting trees has taken root - pardon the pun - in the past five or six year in particular. Co-operative societies have been giving perhaps 200 trees per year to farmers in order that they can plant on...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report Stage (29 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: That is not the way it works. We can speak on the Fifth Stage.

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report Stage (29 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: We are coming to an important part of the Bill. We have debated it for ten or 12 hours. It has been a significant debate. The Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine also went through the Bill. I am not going to rehash the arguments about just transition and how communities and families are going to be affected. This is a significant moment. We are closing an industry...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (30 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber. It is great to have him here. I am raising the issue of mandatory training for teachers of children who are dyslexic. It is probably the most common learning difficulty that we have in our schools at the moment. It affects one in ten children, from a mild to an extreme degree. This equates to an amazing 100,000 children in primary and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (30 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: This is about ensuring not only that teachers who are going through teacher training college will be able to undertake this module but that they will be required to do so. At the moment, it is not mandatory. Given this affects 100,000 kids in the system and the teaching of dyslexic children is so significant a responsibility, the module needs to be mandatory. We need to get together the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (30 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: The module is not mandatory.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (30 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: The module is not mandatory.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: I want to raise the matter of our tourism industry and where it is going at the moment. Obviously, we have moved out of Covid-19, which is very welcome, and, hopefully, we are moving back to a normal cycle when it comes to tourism. Unfortunately, the war in Ukraine has affected confidence in the tourism market. The US visitors that we would like to see coming back to west Cork in numbers...

Seanad: Support to Ukraine: Motion (30 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. If I thank the Minister of State, my time will nearly be over already. This is a very important debate and I welcome the opportunity to contribute to it. For the past decade, we have had 250 Ukrainians living in Bandon in west Cork, where I come from. They are very much involved in the community and many work in two major food plants in the area. For this...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Mar 2022)

Tim Lombard: I raise our national sport, the GAA, and how a percentage of those games are on pay-per-view platforms. We do an awful lot to support the GAA and are all actively involved in it at local level, in particular. To have a scenario whereby some games will only be available on a pay-per-view package, whether it is Sky or whoever, is inappropriate. Ireland is a sporting country. It is so...