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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Tánaiste call that a war crime? Will he say the Palestinians have the right to military resistance against what Israel is doing? Of course he will not because Israel is an ally of the United States. We will never prevent war if a neutral country has a blind spot about some of the warmongers in this world. A consistent position is opposing all nuclear powers, all warmongering...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----tyrannical regime of Russia or NATO and the western powers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is being done without the assent of this House.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Cashing in on high prices.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is particularly appropriate that the Ceann Comhairle mentioned the horrors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima as we mark the first anniversary of Putin's bloody, murderous and criminal invasion of Ukraine. The United States, the biggest power in the world in two days with nuclear weapons incinerated more than 300,000 people. Today, Vladimir Putin, another nuclear power, said he is ramping up his...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 281. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of how he will approve grants for any State-backed forestry investment fund, given the clear judgment of the European Court in 2003 that legal persons owned and controlled by the State are eligible for aid to cover the costs of afforestation and maintenance of forests in the same way as any other natural...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 282. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the cost-benefit analysis for Irish forestry provided as part of Ireland’s current application for State aid; if he can assure this Deputy that the criticism of the Comptroller and Auditor General in 2018 that the previous cost benefit analysis for State Aid 2014 - 2021 failed to account for a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 292. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the Government did not conduct an up-to-date cost benefit analysis based on the social, environmental and economic pillars of sustainable forest management of the new Forestry Strategy/Programme that included water and soil damage to decide public good value for money, given the huge expenditure of €1.3 billion...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 283. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine given the advances in scientific knowledge about the emissions caused by forestry activities on organic soils summarised by the Environmental Protection Agency in July 2022, if the Government has revised the value of forestry sequestration from that used in the State aid application 2014 to 2021, when 39% of the benefit was...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 284. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he, as a golden shareholder, will call an EGM to amend the principal objects of the State forestry board of Coillte Teoranta from its sole definition as ‘commercial’ to include ‘environmental’ and ‘social’ factors, as is required under the definition of ‘sustainable...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 285. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will instruct the State forestry board of Coillte Teoranta to use the same metrics as the EPA and LULUCF carbon accounting and stop its practice of including carbon embedded in manufactured wood products and saved through product substitution, which is misleading the public as to their forestry’s contribution to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 286. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the 2022 United National Global Peatlands Assessment which suggests that the inclusion of climate concerns would, because of the enormous carbon density of peat, lead to more shallow thresholds for example, 10 cm (details supplied); if he will concede that a shallower threshold for Ireland than...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 287. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that no second or further forestry replanting is approved to take place on peat soils, given that the resulting emissions of greenhouse gases from the disturbance to these organic soils continue to peak on successive rotations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9325/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 288. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will detail the concerns of the European Commission over failures in Ireland’s forestry SEA report of October 2022, if any; if he will outline his proposals to address these concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9326/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the Forestry Service has not moved away from the inaccurate use of the sustained yield/clear fell and replant model whereby forested areas that are harvested are considered the same as standing forested areas if they are simply replanted, to an annual allowable cut proposed by the Forestry Policy Review Group in 2014 and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 290. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the 44,000 ha of poor quality sitka spruce planted on farms with no access roads or thinning identified in the Forestry Policy Review Group report in 2014; the health and status of all broadleaved and native woodland sites across the entire forest area public and private; if he will furnish this Deputy with a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 291. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine where is the science behind the Forestry Service/Coillte decision to reduce harvest rotation length from the UK scientific sustained yield measure of 45-60 years used by the old public forest manager the Forestry Service for decades before Coillte called for it to be reduced down to 25-30 years, and the impact this is having on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 293. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what has developed of the Coillte investment of 15 million punts worth of public forests used as equity in IFORUT in 1994 since Coillte have left IFORUT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9331/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 294. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide this Deputy with a copy of the University College Dublin attitudes to forestry survey results focused on counties Wicklow and Kerry, conducted by a person (details supplied) in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9333/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 295. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will verify a statement by a person (details supplied) related to the survey in 2020 that it was costing the Government approximately €17,000 per ha for an individual with yield class 22 to get €20,000 per ha at harvest time after 35 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9334/23]