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Seanad: Inland Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2017)

Tim Lombard: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (13 Jun 2017)

Tim Lombard: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing this important Commencement matter before the Seanad. I am raising an issue relating to a school in Innishannon, a small village between Bandon and Cork city that has seen significant growth in recent years. This village has seen significant numbers come into the area. We are trying to ensure this school can develop and that the entire campus or site...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (13 Jun 2017)

Tim Lombard: I will be very brief. The last page of the statement says it all. There is planning permission for two classrooms, but planning permission must now be sought for a small classroom. It does not make practical or logical sense. That is the argument I am trying to get across. I ask the Minister to relay that comment to the Minister for Education and Skills. It is an issue which can be...

Seanad: Public Service Broadcasting: Statements (23 May 2017)

Tim Lombard: I welcome the opportunity to comment on the important matter of the future of broadcasting and how we will fund it into the future. Senator Terry Leyden is correct that the Minister, Deputy Denis Naughten, has a very wide brief that includes communications which we are discussing, post offices and climate change. It includes everything, except water, but I believe that is on the way to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Cashflow Support Loan Scheme: Discussion (9 May 2017)

Tim Lombard: I apologise for my absence earlier; I got caught in votes in the Seanad. It is great to have representatives of the banks here to discuss this very important issue. How is this scheme expected to play out in the future? Will it be the model that will be used for banking and financing of agricultural products in future or will it be a once-off? The Government has already put money into...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Tim Lombard: Last February I raised the issue of the postponement of a proposed major expansion by Eli Lilly in Kinsale on foot of the election of Donald Trump as US President.This was a grave concern for many people in my part of the world who did not know where the €200 million project was going to be located. The way the Trump Administration was carrying on in the United States had put the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Cashflow Support Loan Scheme: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (2 May 2017)

Tim Lombard: I apologise for being late. I was detained at another meeting. I welcome the witnesses to this space. It is a very important initiative and it has been very positive. I wish to ask about the duration of the loans. It is becoming an issue with the farming public. In the documentation, 19% of farmers are looking for loans over six years. Was that predetermined by the banks which put...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Apr 2017)

Tim Lombard: I rise to speak about the flood relief scheme in Bandon. It has been an ongoing issue for the last decade if not more and there has been a stop and start situation in the scheme for the last three or four years. Work began four years ago but people were pulled off-site. There has been major concern in Bandon over the last week at the lack of progress and as rumour spread that there were...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Tim Lombard: I have raised previously the absence of guidelines on solar farms.The epidemic of planning permission grants for solar farms over the past 12 months to keep Ireland lighting 24/7 needs to be dealt with legislatively and guidelines need to be put in place. Today in Kinsale, County Cork, planning permission was granted for another solar farm by An Bord Pleanála against its own...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Apr 2017)

Tim Lombard: Many Senators have raised issues regarding councillors and their conditions over the last year. I wish to raise the working hours of some councillors. Cork County Council recently went through the county development plan process, which is probably the most important process for councillors. They have direct input and direct votes and are very much involved in it.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Apr 2017)

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Seanad: Order of Business (5 Apr 2017)

Tim Lombard: I thank the Leader for his kind interjection. What I was trying to get across was that the hours councillors work while they are going through a county development plan has to be looked at. What they did last week in Cork County Council was absolutely wrong in so many ways. Over a three-day period they sat for 34 hours. On the last day, they sat for 17 hours, from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m., making...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mackerel Quota Allocation: Iasc Mara Teoranta (4 Apr 2017)

Tim Lombard: I welcome the witnesses here today and thank them for raising this interesting item for discussion. I want to ask about the public consultation period which is happening now. This is being looked at. Has Iasc Mara Teoranta made a submission to that consultation and fitted into the actual process itself? Is this a part of the witnesses submission and is this what they propose by public...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Tim Lombard: I wish to raise a matter that has been discussed many times in this Chamber, namely, access to broadband. This matter affects nearly everybody in rural Ireland and there is an ongoing debate in respect of it that has involved nearly all parties. I welcome today's announcement by the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten, on broadband. He...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2017)

Tim Lombard: I welcome the announcement by the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Simon Coveney, of the infrastructure fund. The €200 million that has been announced will, it is hoped, open up 32 sites for housing, which will be very important for the housing strategy. There is a local dimension to that. There are moneys for roads in Cork, but they are very...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Tim Lombard: I have not spoken on this very important Bill today but I thank the Minister for bringing it forward. I have sat here or in my office for most of the day listening to the contributions, and many Senators mentioned the amount of communications we have received. We have received communications by e-mail, on Facebook and on Twitter, and I have read most of them. I have also met people. I...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Tim Lombard: I can use my own example. I live in a place called Minane Bridge. I will not be cutting a hedge in August because I do not need to. I am a grassland farmer. I do not need to cut those hedges. I can cut them when it comes to the appropriate time that is in the legislation at the moment. However, I have neighbours who have grain farms and when it comes to winter cereals, which is a huge...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Tim Lombard: This debate is important for rural Ireland and Ireland in general. The legislation is appropriate and the Minister has done the right thing by bringing it forward. I am afraid that an unfortunate side effect will relate not to hedges, birds or bees but the relationship between rural Ireland and urban dwellers.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Tim Lombard: I concur with my colleague, Senator Hopkins, on this issue. I am deeply disappointed that Fianna Fáil has pushed this amendment. It is an anti-farmer amendment. There is no point saying it is anything less than that. They have taken from farmers who want to reseed or grow winter grains the opportunity to cut their hedges. It is an appalling outlook.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Tim Lombard: I was at a meeting in Bantry at which a Fianna Fáil Deputy gave a commitment that this would not happen and it has happened here tonight. It is disappointing. We deserve better than this. With this amendment, Fianna Fáil is telling farmers who want the opportunity to reseed or grow winter grain that there is nothing that can be done about it, that it is their issue and Fianna...