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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with British Ambassador (8 Jul 2025)

David Maxwell: I wish the ambassador well in his retirement. He came to Ireland in 2020 after many of his predecessors came on perhaps a different mission. He had Brexit and the driving agenda was more economic and trade for the past five years. It speaks volumes that, having served all over Europe that he fell in love with this beautiful country in five years and now hopes to make it home, going...

Select Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised)
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

David Maxwell: We received the Minister of State's briefing note at 4.30 p.m. I am just reading it. To be clear-----

Select Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised)
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

David Maxwell: There is no problem.

Select Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised)
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

David Maxwell: No problem.

Select Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised)
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

David Maxwell: The electricity credit scheme function has been transferred to another Department, so that has reduced the allocation. On the money we have left in 2025, we are now halfway through the year. Has the uptake, with regard to the balance of money available, been good? By the end of 2025, will the full allocation for the fisheries sector have been spent, as opposed to money being handed back to...

Select Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised)
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

David Maxwell: The Minister of State can only give the information he has at hand.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Applications (17 Jul 2025)

David Maxwell: 454. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department can take to expediate afforestation applications that are currently being appealed, in most cases, these appeals are taking approximately three to four years to be resolved. [40370/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

David Maxwell: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I have an observation rather than a question. It is important that the witnesses have come in and briefed us on the issue. It has given us an insight into the offshore wind energy industry. As someone from an inland county, I do not know much about fishing or offshore wind. I see the wind turbines inland and I have always thought that out in the sea...