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Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: This commission to investigate historical sexual abuse in schools is very much welcomed but it is long overdue. With every year of delay, survivors grow older and the risk of evidence being lost increases. Thousands of children across the State were failed by those entrusted to protect and raise them. Not only were they failed but their entire childhood was ripped away and destroyed. It...

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I commend my colleagues in Sinn Féin, especially Senator Maria McCormack on her outstanding work in raising awareness about endometriosis. If we ever needed a clear-cut example of how women are treated as second class citizens-----

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: -----we need look no further than the treatment of those suffering from endometriosis. Despite one in ten women having this condition, there is currently a nine-year delay in diagnosis. This allows the disease free rein to spread, causing irreversible damage to organs. Three weeks ago Senator McCormack, Deputy Cullinane and I hosted a public meeting on endometriosis in Kilkenny city....

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: -----with support from their families. Now that we finally have a female Minister for Health, I implore her, woman-to-woman, to implement modern, fit-for-purpose treatment for women throughout Ireland because for far too long women's health has been treated as an afterthought by her side of the House.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I thank the Minister of State for attending. He said, "I am determined to continue growing our forestry sector to provide attractive financial incentives to plant trees." It is hard to sell those schemes to farmers when the risks are high due to storms and ash dieback and there is a low return over a long period. How does the Minister of State plan to address the matter?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: On that point, why is the person who inherits the land tied into the scheme? A farmer might plant X amount of land. A son or daughter then takes it over, has the crop and harvests it, yet that son or daughter is tied into having to replant the land.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: That son or daughter is new to the land so should have the option to opt out of the scheme even if he or she has harvested the trees. I do not know what way we would do it, but this issue has to be examined. New landowners should not be tied to what the preceding generation has done. They are the new landowners and they should be able to decide what they want to farm, not the preceding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Did the Minister of State not say earlier that people could plant trees and graze animals underneath?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Is that a different scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I still think that new landowners should not be tied to the scheme. They have not bought the land, so it is not like they have gone out, bought a forest and decided to graze animals on the land. Therefore, the scheme needs to be examined. Perhaps the new landowners want to continue with the scheme but they should not have to and the scheme should not be a noose around their necks. They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: What are the consequences for a farmer who does not plant land that has lain idle for ten years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: They did not sign up for it. Their parents before them signed up for it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: They did not sign up for it. They did not sign a way out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I ask the Minister of State to please look into this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I will keep after the Minister of State on it, so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: The Minister of State said that he was "exploring the introduction of a reconstitution scheme". Can he tell me anything about it? When does he think the scheme will be finalised? Is he committing to people who replant now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: The Minister of State has now given a commitment that people will be entitled to the reconstitution scheme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: When will they know about that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: By the end of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: On ash dieback, the Government's support does not come close to what landowners need. Will the extra allocation of €5,000 be backdated to the time when trees fell in the 2012-13 period?