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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have two quick questions. Did Mr. Gleeson allude that 80% of all applications now have been screened in because of the environmental rules?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: When there is an application two or three years in the system, does the Department's ecologist go out to site when he or she is screening?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Have the ecologists gone out to site in the past year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If an application is two or three years in the system, would it mean that the ecologist would definitely have gone out to site?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Would Mr. Gleeson feel - we would have talked to Mr. Hayes and Mr. Dunne about this previously - that the senior inspector has no choice now but to screen things? An ecologist has certain degrees or letters after his or her name that can stand up in court. Does Mr. Gleeson feel that there is a fear among his senior inspectors to screen anything out and does he fear that because of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: When the new CAP consultative committee was set up, I think, in 2019, what officials from the Forestry Service did Mr. Hayes appoint to that committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The new CAP refers to getting rid of red tape in the forestry sector. It outlines the European Green Deal and all its great benefits. Why is forestry, when a forest is being assessed, always done in the negative and whether it may have an adverse effect? I understand that involves the legal side of things. What about the positive side of it being planted, which I have just outlined,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There is a problem in that. I appreciate everything Mr. Gleeson has said. I want to finish on this point in order to let other members in. Will the Department give us a tip-off, one way or the other, on whether Coillte will have enough licences at its October market because it did not have enough last year? Mr. Gleeson spoke about talking up forestry but the reality is that forestry is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Mr. Gleeson. I will let another member in.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (9 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 875. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied) for a certificate of naturalisation as they are now four years waiting on an outcome of their application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41628/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1036. To ask the Minister for Health the compensation or reward that will be paid or given to nurses and midwives in view of their efforts throughout the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41629/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Decision-Making (9 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1118. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the director of the decision support services to submit the code of practice in respect of Part 8 of the Assisted Decision-Making Capacity Act 2015 to him for approval and publication in view of the inordinate delay since December 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41794/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Aug 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Minister of State for coming in. I will do quick-fire questions in order not to hog the discussion too long because I do not want to go through essays. This committee, probably three meetings ago, got an undertaking from the Minister of State's Department that we would get a split between thinnings and clear fell and the tonnages or the cubes. We have also written to her...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Aug 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I want it fairly quickly because we have limited time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Aug 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am looking at dashboards and I cannot see it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Aug 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It would be helpful because it is hard to see it. With regard to unenclosed land, a report was to come to our committee. Where is that report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Aug 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have not seen it anyhow.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Aug 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Right. We will keep going. Over the past two to three years, there has been serious damage through frost. The Department promised to put in a scheme over the past two to three years. Where is that scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Aug 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: At a committee meeting we were told that we would hit 100 per week, and we did for June. Why are we down to 20 or 30 licences now? I have gone through four weeks in July. We have approximately 112 licences in July. What is the reason for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Aug 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I take the Minister of State's point on the statutory instrument. We have gone from 100 to 20 or 30. Is she saying to me that 80% of the applications are going in for screening through this statutory instrument because of the habitats directive or they are near a site of importance?