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- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: Do we have an indication of the overall timeframe? When would we expect an application to be approved?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: I am still no clearer because the problem is the Minister mentioned the application could not be submitted before 1 January, it is 8 February now and if we are waiting at the latter stage of even the previous application, which was four months, we are into the summer before a single new application can be formally submitted for the scheme.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: I would accept, by the way, if we were to wait until the middle of February and we were sure that meant we would receive approval within the two months I would consider that to be time well spent. However, if we were to wait two months and then put in an application that was closer to the four months, I would consider that to be the same as someone cutting the top off a blanket to tie it to...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: Regarding deliberations within the Commission, we had a long discussion on state aid the last time the Minister was at the committee. Has he sought or received clarification in respect of how the new state aid rules will affect Coillte's ability to draw down grants?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: Just to be clear, my question was in terms of Coillte drawing down the funding. Can the Minister talk about that?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: Has the question actually been asked of the Commission as of yet?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: My understanding was, from what Coillte told this committee, the reason it could not enter into direct afforestation programmes was because state aid rules-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: -----precluded it from doing so. Who are we seeking clarification from in respect of the new state aid rules as to whether or not Coillte can avail? Do I take it from the fact the Minister is discussing these issues with Coillte before asking the Commission that it is the Department's view that Coillte can actually draw these down?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: I am sorry for being persistent on this. The question that must be asked and answered is whether or not Coillte can directly draw down grants and premiums that it was previously precluded from doing so as a result of the state aid rules? The state aid rules changed on 1 January after a very lengthy consultation process. Has anybody asked for independent advice or have we asked the...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: Okay.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: Is it the Minister's view that another shareholder letter of expectation will issue?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: At this point the official guidance Coillte has as to how it conducts its work is based on the three letters of expectation it has received to date, including the one in June 2022.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: I know but the Minister is still not answering the question.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: I know but Coillte will tell us it is operating within the shareholder letter of expectation. Finally on forestry, does the target afforestation rate for 2023 still stand at 8,000 ha?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: Does the Minister believe it will be reached?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: However new applications cannot be submitted for them at this point.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: That is 60% in any given year, however. Those 7,000 ha, some of which go back several years-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: If we had a dashboard, would we be able to find out ourselves-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: Perhaps the Minister will follow up on that issue as well. The weekly dashboards were incredibly useful. There were a number of broad policy issues I intended to address but I will confine-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Matt Carthy: That was new planting.