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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: To finish, is Coillte worried it will not get to the €200 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Services and Supports Provided by the State for Autistic People: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I apologise to the witnesses for the delay in getting here but I was listening in from the office. I thank them very much for their contributions. Addressing Dr. Doherty first, I am sorry to hear she is unwell at the moment. An issue that is often raised with me is that people are becoming more aware of autism and are coming to the realisation that children in their family may have it,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Services and Supports Provided by the State for Autistic People: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: On the training workshops that ADI is providing, what has been the reaction? Obviously, there are significant demands on GPs and the medical profession generally. Is the profession seeing this as a chore or as a real opportunity to skill up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Services and Supports Provided by the State for Autistic People: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: It goes without saying that this is a very important committee. It is great to get the insight of so many people. Heretofore, we have been very much focused on and to some degree preoccupied with the issue of young people. It is good to hear Dr. Doherty refer to the challenges that are there for adults also. The data she presented from Sweden are quite frightening. Politicians get very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Services and Supports Provided by the State for Autistic People: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I thank Dr. Doherty, Mr. Hunt and Dr. Tamming for attending. In respect of the NDA and the fact there was not an opportunity for a review in the EPSEN Act, the authority’s secondary recommendation, given the first would have been to have the review under the EPSEN Act, involves doing it as part of the forthcoming UNCRPD implementation strategy review. Has there been any feedback...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Services and Supports Provided by the State for Autistic People: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: The authority has started its engagement with the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Services and Supports Provided by the State for Autistic People: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Very good. The authority has had some discussion with the Chair regarding what is euphemistically referred to as special education unit spaces and classes. It has had a big role in respect of universal design, with the creation of guidelines and so on, and much of that work was laudable. Do the witnesses get a sense we have not moved beyond the guidelines and that, as a Government and as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Services and Supports Provided by the State for Autistic People: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I was pleased to hear the witnesses touch on employment and they referred to the Employers for Change service, funded by the Government. I do not like suggesting we should follow a US model but I have spoken to an agency in New York that works with the disability sector there. It has brought in a quota for employers tendering for government contracts whereby 20% of their workforce have to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (7 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance his estimate of the number of persons in County Longford who are eligible to claim the rent tax credit; the number of persons in County Longford currently claiming it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11350/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (7 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review current rates of VRT given that some disability support and special needs organisations are being negatively impacted by current rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11349/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of Sheep Sector: Discussion (8 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I thank all of the speakers for coming in. I apologise for all of the breaks in proceedings but at least voting is finished now. It is great to have the Crosses here and to see such innovation. It is certainly very exciting. With regard to land, good grass and so on were mentioned. I imagine that, in the Mediterranean region, sheep are generally farmed on marginal land. In that respect,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of Sheep Sector: Discussion (8 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Mr. Crosse mentioned 400 ewes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of Sheep Sector: Discussion (8 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: That is what you are talking about, is it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of Sheep Sector: Discussion (8 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: The witnesses said Enterprise Ireland has brought it as far as it can. I would imagine it is very attractive for Enterprise Ireland because, ultimately, it is export-driven because that is where the market is. It is not aiming at a domestic market as such. Has Sheep Milk Ireland tried to get Enteprise Ireland to meet with Department officials to agree a pathway forward or make it easier...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of Sheep Sector: Discussion (8 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: There is probably merit in bringing it to the table. Enterprise Ireland is very good. We have seen it with just transition. Where there are impediments like that, it will work with ancillary agencies to advance the cause.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of Sheep Sector: Discussion (8 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: The industry is very much non-competing. If somebody has a solar operation, it fits perfectly with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of Sheep Sector: Discussion (8 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: The only other challenge is that they must be very parochial and provincial at the start. They must get a processor so whoever they get as their supplier must be in that immediate area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of Sheep Sector: Discussion (8 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: When does Sheep Milk Ireland see itself in production?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of Sheep Sector: Discussion (8 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: On the scale that it is talking about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of Sheep Sector: Discussion (8 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I am conscious that other people need to come in. So we are looking a 400-ewe model. What would be my typical start-up costs if I wanted to go into that and I am a dry stock farmer at the moment running sheep?