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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will now invite committee members to ask questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Before Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell comments, I ask the witnesses to explain what the all-Ireland pollinator plan is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have a number of questions following which members may come back in again if they wish. It would be useful for the committee to get a list of the county councils that have signed up to all-Ireland pollinator plan. If such a list is not already on the website of the Federation of Irish Beekeepers Associations, it might be useful to highlight that on it. That would allow the young people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is a movement in Dublin towards having many more allotments. For instance, allotments were opened only recently in my area of Bluebell. I got my keys last week but I have not done anything yet. Allotments encourage people to grow crops. However, if they are located in the middle of a built-up area where flies, wasps, bees and so on are being killed off with pesticides, with all the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It should be colourful-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Mr. Norton or one of the other witnesses mentioned the funding running out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Has the federation made a submission seeking an additional wad of money to continue this work? In preparation for the meeting I read some of the documents the federation has produced and they are very useful-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: -----to someone who is uninitiated, so to speak, and outline some simple steps. I encourage people to visit the pollinators.iewebsite and read the guidelines.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It gets €8,000 to do its work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Given the crisis we are in, the organisations that are best placed to give advice to farmers, schools or whatever need to be funded. Whether it is to the witnesses' organisation, for the national biodiversity plan or whatever, the funding must be provided. On an issue discussed by the committee previously, many of the Bord na Móna bogs and other bogs not owned by the company are no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is a very important aim.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The federation should draw up a plan for that and if it needs the help of the good offices of this committee or politicians in general, it should ask for it. In the main, people understand this issue, even if they are not fully aware of the full consequences. The beekeepers have supporters, certainly among members of this committee who have expressed an interest. We will have witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Now I understand the reason.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is a matter of explaining it to the rest of the population to ensure they understand. That is why the funding needs to be provided so that it can be explained.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank Mr. Walsh for his passion and understanding of our responsibility. Maybe Kilkenny will do better in the hurling after adopting the symbol of the black and amber bee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am a Dublin man. Maybe they will beat Galway this week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To fast-track this, we on the committee might undertake to write to the councils to ask them what action they have taken. If our guests think that we can take any practical steps of that nature, I am willing to put the matter to the members over the next while. If they come across a stumbling block and think that our intervention would be useful, they should just ask for help. I think that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will call Deputy Ó Cuív because I have to go very soon and want to get a photograph with our guests beforehand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We will consider that for the next meeting.