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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move amendment No. 69: In page 15, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following:"(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), licences for thinning operations up to clearfell stage shall be issued to include all standard commercial thinning which accords with good forestry practice;".

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move amendment No. 73: In page 16, line 14, after "specified" to insert the following:"as long as such conditions are in line with good forest practice and generally concur with the forest management objectives of the forest owner".

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move amendment No. 77:In page 16, between lines 39 and 40, to insert the following:“(i) to a fixed payment notice as provided for in section 23,”.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If that is the view of the Parliamentary Counsel, I will accept it.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can I just say-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Okay.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can we discuss the section? As with the previous amendment which was just defeated, I ask the Minister of State to consider this issue again on Report Stage, because what is there in print contains plenty of lines but is a toothless tiger. I ask him to consider coming back with something that gives a firm timeline and without numerous get-out-of-jail clauses.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On a point of clarification-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If this section is introduced into the Bill, will we be able to table Report Stage amendments to the section?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We should quit while we are ahead.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not sure that amendments Nos. 82 and 83 have the same intent. The amendment states that one can cut up to 15 cu. m on one's land but I want to exclude a constituent of parkland or wood pasture, including ancient heritage and veteran trees, on an agricultural holding. I am not sure whether that exclusion will be included in the Minister of State's version of the Bill, as it will be...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am talking about amendment No. 83.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Chairman, are we not discussing amendments Nos. 82 and 83?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Amendment No. 83 states: In page 18, line 29, to delete "on an agricultural holding" and substitute the following: “, nor a constituent of parkland or wood pasture, including ancient, heritage and veteran trees, on an agricultural holding, including farm forestry,”.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is the Minister of State telling me that for discussion purposes this amendment should have been linked to amendment No. 88?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is there any possibility we could discuss amendment No. 88 with these amendments?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have said my piece. When we reach amendment No. 88 we will hear the reply.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It would also be fair to say that if one asked people in the countryside about hedgerows and the greatest change to same in the past 70 or 80 years, they would not point to hedgerows being cut down, but to their growing wild. Traditionally, farmers cut the hedges, folded them back onto themselves and made them bushy and thick. They did that by hand. It was every year's winter work and,...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is not true to say that most hedgerows are along roads. Most fields have hedgerows around their four sides, three of which are not normally along a road.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a standard process by which one measures trees.