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- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Prospecting Licences (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: 400. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of his decision not to award onshore petroleum prospecting licences due to the failure by companies (details supplied) to comply with the work programmes as set out by his Department and that the companies having vacated their position, if he will confirm that until the licensing options are put out to tender...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Prospecting Licences (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: 401. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parlimentary Questions Nos. 463, 464 and 465 of 2 February 2013, in view of the fact that there is a requirement on the part of companies (details supplied) to hold a petroleum prospecting licence during the full period of a licensing option under the licensing terms 2007(13b), if he will explain, following...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: The notice we received for this meeting stated its purpose is to discuss the annual report but the document we have is not the annual report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: It is lovely but it does not tell us very much. Why is there a shortfall from 3.024 million cu. m to 2.3 million cu. m? A forecast done in December 2011 for 2012 should be more correct than this. Why was the volume available to the sawmills short while the volume of pulp sales was higher than forecast? Is Coillte protecting supplies to its own board mills? Is it possible that what is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: Can we record them? This is the benefit of these committee meetings. It is very important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: It would not be private; we own it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: Can Mr. Britchfield explain it to me? I did not ask him to explain it to somebody else, with respect.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: Did the witness not know this in advance of making the prediction? He knows all these variables exist. How can he be so far out?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: I am sorry-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: That question has not been answered. What is the point in continuing to not answer further questions? How can Coillte be so far out in its forecasts?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: It is 3.024 million down to 2.3 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: Will the witness be doing that next year in the forecasts?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: Chairman, if they do not answer a question, do I have to put up with it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: Everybody else had a supplementary question as they went along. I intervened in the same way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: The witness is jumping past questions. What about the petition? Has the witness dealt with that question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: The witness knows now. What does he think of it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: I have now modified it. Will the witness answer it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: I asked the witnesses if they were aware that at a recent forestry industry event held in the UK, an oriented strand board manufacturer was asking participants to sign a petition requesting that pulp from Irish forests be made available to all the industry, not just Coillte board plants. The witness is obviously not aware of it. Now that he is, what does he think of it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: That is my understanding of it, but the witnesses are not aware of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: I will get the witnesses more information on it. It is something they should know.