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Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Tim Lombard: I welcome the Minister to the House and acknowledge the importance of this Bill. The Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016 is very important and it deals with matters left over from the Mahon tribunal that must be addressed. Most of the issues have already been mentioned by Senators this afternoon but I have some comments. The first regards the timelines of county development and...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Tim Lombard: That is nearly two decades. How is inflation factored into that? There have been dramatic increases in local authority staffing, costs and everything else.The cheapest part of a planning application is probably the €62 a person pays to the local authority to go out and look at the site. What happens for that? A local engineer, a senior executive engineer, a local planner and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Process: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Feb 2018)

Tim Lombard: The debate has been very informative on both sides. We have heard from eminent people with great knowledge and from the Department whose officials have exceptional knowledge of the issue. It has been very helpful. The backlog has been the biggest issue the Department has homed in on. It has expressed the hope that most of these issues will be resolved in the very short term, not the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Process: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Feb 2018)

Tim Lombard: Dr. Beamish is correct. However, let us look at Teagasc model. Teagasc is a statutory body that advises the Department, but a farmer can bring his agricultural adviser from Teagasc to the appeals hearing. The crossover is not quite so drastic as Dr. Beamish is stating. I see a great similarity between the role of the BIM and Teagasc. I see it as something that needs to be looked at....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Process: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Feb 2018)

Tim Lombard: I think it is a space that could definitely could be looked at.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2018)

Tim Lombard: I thank the Cathaoirleach for his introduction. Several issues have been raised by previous speakers. I will focus on the broadband issue which has been raised by many Senators and which is very important for rural Ireland. Yesterday's announcement was very unfortunate whereby two tenders were reduced to just one. Originally, there were three tenders but now we have only one. Broadband...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Progress: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)

Tim Lombard: I welcome the contributions to this debate which have been very positive. I am interested in the electric car initiatives such as the one in Cork a few years ago called Drive4Zero, which promoted electric car use particularly in the city centre. Is the roll-out of electric cars moving ahead of the infrastructure? Do the witnesses think there is a rural-urban divide in respect of climate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)

Tim Lombard: I have another meeting to go to at 5 p.m. so I will be brief. I thank the delegation for the presentation. It has been very informative and helpful. The representatives from Irish Farmers with Designated Land mentioned three areas where issues arise. Planning was one issue, especially in the context of solar farms and wind turbines, as mentioned by my colleague. Will the group elaborate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Tim Lombard: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. It is very helpful and informative. I have some questions on the statistics. Is a young farmer defined as 45 years of age in the statistics in the report or what is the age for defining a young farmer? In Ireland it was traditionally defined as 35 years and later it moved to 40 years. A report issued in Ireland several years ago stated that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Tim Lombard: Have the witnesses looked at the "old" young farmers?

Seanad: Agricultural Issues: Statements (24 Jan 2018)

Tim Lombard: I welcome the Minister and acknowledge his contribution, particularly on the issue of areas of natural conservation, ANC, which has been in focus for a very long time. I acknowledge the Minister's clarification. Let me raise an issue the Minister did not mention - where we are going with young farmers. We heard an interesting presentation on young farmers this morning by the EU audit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Tim Lombard: I acknowledge the capable and comprehensive presentation that has been made. I would like to refer to a few particular issues. Most of the topics have been covered. A review of the Origin Green strategy from 2019 to 2021 is taking place. I think sustainability is the big stumbling block in the agriculture industry at the moment. We need to consider where we are going with the current...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Tim Lombard: On the review due to take place on the poultry side which I hope will be completed by June or July - it will be followed by the Christmas period only a few months afterwards - is Maloney proposing a marketing campaign to ensure the multiples and the major buyers will buy into it? They have really bought into the reviews in the dairy and beef markets. I fear that has not happened to the same...

Seanad: Business of Seanad: General Practitioner Services Provision (23 Jan 2018)

Tim Lombard: I have raised this matter concerning the SouthDoc service in Kinsale, County Cork, because of a public meeting held there several months ago. The lack of a dedicated SouthDoc service in Kinsale has not been addressed since 2014 when we lost it due to a merger between two existing services in Bandon and Kinsale. Since then, the community in Kinsale has not had a dedicated SouthDoc service...

Seanad: Business of Seanad: General Practitioner Services Provision (23 Jan 2018)

Tim Lombard: I thank the Minister of State for his very detailed response on what is a very serious issue for the people of Kinsale. I hope there will be a review at some stage into the service to see if this station could be reopened, particularly at night. That is the key issue. There is a feeling in the town that this needs to be looked at. If the Department were doing a review, it might consider...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: General Scheme of Waste Reduction Bill 2017: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Tim Lombard: I welcome Mr. Jennings and compliment him on his informative presentation. Where does he believe the industry needs to go on the issue of a latte tax? Millions of plastic cups are being used every day. This is a cultural issue and their use has expanded rapidly in the past decade. Some say corner shops are making more on coffee than on anything else. It has become the cash machine in the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: TAMS Administration (17 Jan 2018)

Tim Lombard: I welcome the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to the House and compliment him on the good work he is doing in the Department. I would like him to include cattle passes in the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, TAMS II, which was launched in 2015 with a budget of almost €400 million. We are half way through that programme and farmers have shown significant...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: TAMS Administration (17 Jan 2018)

Tim Lombard: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive response and for the update on the TAMS scheme. He is right in saying that it is a very important scheme, and the uptake among farmers, with more than 12,500 applying, is very much welcomed. Again, it comes down to the payment and the actual payment scheme. In many ways it is in the farmers' hands. They must move the projects forward and trigger...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Tim Lombard: I will be brief. I missed some of the presentations because I was at other meetings. I have two questions for the Department and one for Mr. Maguire. I have an issue with where we are with our emissions and where we will be going with our emissions. We are now talking about 2020 but I am asking about after 2020. We have two coal plants on the island that are considerable. There is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Tim Lombard: Just to prove the point, 30% of our energy is produced in Cork. That industry accounts for a fifth of the local authority's rate base. It is a significant driver in the economy. The rate payer issue is very important. My issue is on the compliance element. Mr. Manley just touched on it. If there was a difference in regimes in two parts of this island with one energy network, how could...