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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there a realistic possibility that will happen anytime soon?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to plant between 15,000 to 20,000 ha. My following comment is not directed particularly at Coillte.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about a national policy issue. In Mr. Britchfield's opinion, is there any chance that Ireland will reach the target in the foreseeable future and if things continue as they are?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In a nice way Mr. Britchfield has said "No". Perhaps he feels constrained due to his position.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Could Coillte achieve it if it were given the mandate to do so?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are obvious limits to what the witnesses can say. They seem to be indicating that the current mandate that Coillte has as the biggest publicly owned forest estate manager in the country means it cannot afforest, although it is a stated national objective to reach a 17% target.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an anomalous position.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there a reason they cannot be grown?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So we did not plan or manage for something that was likely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the witness not see, to put it mildly, what can be perceived as a tension and sometimes a direct contradiction between Coillte's mandate as the stewards of the public forest estate, with all it entails, and the commercial imperative that is pushing the company towards wind farming and so on? In some cases there are quite damaging consequences for the environment. I have not even...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The company could grow more forestry to the same end.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Coillte has not seen and is not aware of the contents of that review?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps Mr. Egan would respond to my question regarding the Irish Forestry Unit Trust.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For clarity, am I correct that up until two years ago, Coillte sold the harvesting rights of quantities of public land to a bank and an insurance company in order that they could generate dividends for their pension funds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I get the value for them. I am wondering about the value for the taxpayer, as the public owner of the forests and harvesting rights.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Coillte representatives for their contribution. I wish I had all day to ask questions because I have so many. I am very much a supporter of forestry and I am very glad the Government was forced to reconsider its original commitment to sell Coillte. It is vital it stays in public ownership. Having said that, the witnesses are probably aware that there are very significant...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU affairs last met. [42215/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Middle East Issues (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we have sanctions?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Middle East Issues (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When will there be sanctions? With South Africa's apartheid we reached a point where we said "enough is enough" and imposed sanctions. Surely the clock has run out for Israel to be just asked nicely to stop doing what it is doing to the Palestinian people. Should we not publicly demand that sanctions be imposed? Is it not unbelievable that Europe gives favoured trade status to Israel when...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Middle East Issues (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I asked specifically in my question if he could furnish us with copies of communications he had had with Israel, whether with the embassy here or Tel Aviv. We need to know what is being said. The blockade has been ongoing for years and it is just getting worse. I do not doubt that the Minister has taken action. He has made public...