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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Apr 2024)

Erin McGreehan: ...are all down because of the amount of rain we are having. It is all right for us because we can use an umbrella or decide not to go out but farmers are caught. I have never seen a time when so much land was unpassable. Sheep can hardly walk on a field without poaching it. I do not know how long it will take for a good spell of weather to come along to dry the land. Thousands of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Agriculture Supports (22 Jan 2024)

Erin McGreehan: It is in absolute fairy tale land.

Seanad: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jun 2023)

Erin McGreehan: I also congratulate the Minister on this legislation. It is important for all the agricultural community. Health and well-being, from our land right up to our animals, are very important. This is an important step towards ensuring those aspects and the longevity of our very fine agricultural community. I call Senator Ahearn.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Agriculture Supports (22 Jan 2024)

Erin McGreehan: ...and responsibilities. Lambing is starting in north Louth. People are getting their fields ready for silage, tillage or whatever they will be doing from spring onwards. An awful lot of the land is damaged. An awful lot of the infrastructure is damaged. Rivers have been rerouted and there is no ability to spend the moneys needed to fix them. There is damage to our fish stocks. Not one...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Mar 2023)

Erin McGreehan: This morning I wish to highlight a despicable physical assault on a Wicklow farmer, Pat Dunne, who has for more than 15 years allowed walkers across his land. He asked walkers last week not to bring their dogs. Unfortunately, that appeal was not adhered to or listened to, and he was physically assaulted. I have raised the matter of dog kills and dog walkers in recreational areas in the...

Seanad: Agriculture: Statements (16 Apr 2024)

Erin McGreehan: ...forward to hearing further updates from the Minister in the coming weeks. I know he understands it. He witnessed it a couple of years ago on the Inishowen Peninsula, where there was very similar land damage, so he knows how hard that is for farming families. That was last October, and here we are again talking about continuous bad weather. Unpredictable weather patterns have caused...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Oct 2022)

Erin McGreehan: ...all rural communities. There are approximately 34,000 sheep farmers. As the Minister knows, County Donegal has the largest number of sheep in the country. In the counties with the most marginal land, hilly land, and the poorest of farmers, one will find farms with a combination of beef suckler cattle and sheep. I want to highlight a specific mathematical discrepancy.Fifteen cattle...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (11 Oct 2023)

Erin McGreehan: ...in Dowth in County Meath just across the border from County Louth. By accurately measuring on-farm carbon emissions, we can capture and understand carbon sequestration and the power of our land. In Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs is doing this. It is putting money behind this on a voluntary basis for dairy farmers. The Department...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: ...about it, especially with COP26 going on. There is an awful lot about what could and should be done. Are we reaching a point where we will start paying, especially marginalised farmers on poor land, to be unproductive, pick blackberries once a year in September and stand at a gate for a tourist? It seems we have no plan on what we will do with agriculture. There are incredibly...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jan 2022)

Erin McGreehan: ...to love animals, as we love our animals, and to protect them as they should protect them by keeping the dogs safe, away from sheep and in kennels. I ask people who walk with a dog on commonage land to keep it on a lead. The dog does not know the fluffy animal in the distance is not a teddy or for fun. The dog does not know that sheep need to be protected. The dog believes the sheep is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the fact we will hopefully see the framework for the life carbon farming project. That framework will help farmers, foresters and other landowners take climate actions, reduce greenhouse gases and enhance carbon capture. We need EU-wide co-ordinated monitoring of ratification and reporting methods. I ask for a debate in the House on how the Minister is working with his EU...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Agriculture Supports (22 Jan 2024)

Erin McGreehan: ...it. Some of that €9.3 million could go to it. The €300,000 in that figure would go a long way towards fixing a few farmers in north Louth. I think the Department of agriculture is in fairy tale land.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2021)

Erin McGreehan: ...that we have here. When we visit places, we expect to find them in good condition and we want to leave them that way for the next person. I also ask that people bringing their dogs onto common lands, such as mountains, farmland and beaches, put their dogs on leads. When dogs are brought to a place where there is livestock, it is not the dog's fault if it runs after an animal or worries...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Erin McGreehan: ...Regarding the balancing of rights, the Minister mentioned the constitutional protections relating to residential property. Would there be a case for using compulsory purchase orders, CPOs, for land under reasonable circumstances?

Seanad: Visit of Slovak Delegation (4 Oct 2023)

Erin McGreehan: ...,000 farming families we have in the country. We must also put funding into creating that carbon balance sheet for every single farm, to ensure farmers know what they are emitting and what their land is sequestrating. It is important that farmers know what is on their balance sheet. We have the technology to do it. Devenish in County Meath has proved that it can be done, so why are we...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Feb 2022)

Erin McGreehan: ...the new Common Agricultural Policy, CAP. I refer to the power that is vested in hedgerows the length and breadth of the country. The penal laws left a positive legacy in the context of fields and lands having to be walled off with hedgerows. They are biodiversity highways that sequester thousands of units of carbon every single year. There are so many farmers who are carbon neutral...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (11 Oct 2023)

Erin McGreehan: ...morning. Unfortunately, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy McConalogue, cannot be with us because he is at a press conference. Given Waterford's very fertile agricultural land, I know the Minister of State will have an interest in this matter. I seek a statement from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine on the audit and calculation of the current...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2021)

Erin McGreehan: ...the Chamber to debate how we can harness the carbon sequestration of our hedgerows? We have 400,000 km of hedgerows in the country, a positive legacy the British left us when they parcelled up our land. There are really positive environmental issues that we can bring in if we look at what our hedgerows provide. Up to 0.66 to 3.3 tonnes of carbon can be sequestered by 1 ha of hedgerow....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2023)

Erin McGreehan: I want to speak again about the flooding in north Louth. The work continues around the peninsula and the Border to try to get the land and houses back to something resembling normal. There is a sense of fear and anxiety around the place because we are looking at grey clouds and we are afraid more rain is going to come. I spoke to a lady this morning who told me her house had been flooded...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2023)

Erin McGreehan: ...for the Environment, Climate and Communications on how he is going to support this really important sector. I want to know whether that Department has looked at an evaluation of how the removal of land from productivity and the EU nature restoration law are going to impact on our productivity and on us, as an island nation, feeding our people and the people of Europe. I also want to hear...