Results 221-240 of 595 for speaker:William Aird
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: So, it is within six months?.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: That is grand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: My next question was only slightly touched on. What policies will ensure that protected landowners' rights are guaranteed and they are ensured fair compensation in relation to carbon sequestration and biodiversity targets?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: There is a good question for the Minister of State now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: Exactly. How will the Minister of State ensure that Government bodies work to promote native species afforestation - which is very important - without undermining the viability of commercial forestry?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: Right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: That is grand. That answers that question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: I support what was said about peaty soils because there is not a farm in this country that does not have peaty soils somewhere, in the back field or wherever it is. They might have got one cut of hay off it every year or whatever.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: These are the types of land that are suitable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: I have absolutely no problem in promoting trees. I am a tree lover and have trees planted at home all along the ditches. I would not, however, set 5 acres of good land aside for trees. I might as well be honest with the Minister of State. I am a food producer first and there are more and more people to be fed in the world each year. There is that and then solar panels and everything...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: I am very sorry to say that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: I will tell you one thing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: Yes, I do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: Right.
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: I welcome the witnesses. It is a very exciting day. I am delighted to be a member of this committee. We will be remembered for all time when it comes to January for having given a helping hand to everybody to be in a pension scheme. I wish the scheme well. It is an onerous task to get something like this up and running. It will benefit everybody in the working community. It is very...
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: Are you not going to allow me in at all now-----
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: -----after sitting here the whole length?
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: I think the Chair should start a rule. I came here to this meeting this morning. I left my house at 7.05 a.m.
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)
William Aird: I think I am entitled to talk at the meeting. I am just saying that the Chair should be able to judge and allocate time, whether it is four minutes each or whatever.