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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Issues: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 May 2021)

Martin Browne: In that case, can I ask two quick ones on Project Woodland before the witnesses answer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Issues: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 May 2021)

Martin Browne: Can the witnesses tell me what the working group in Project Woodland has produced for the foresters at this stage? The foresters have been in a crisis situation for years and need immediate results. Is it true the first few meetings were wasted by allowing some members time to become acquainted with forestry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Issues: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 May 2021)

Martin Browne: To return to public and private, I am not pitting one side against the other and I appreciate there is a great deal of employment in the sector, but both sides should be treated equally. Is Mr. Dunne saying that if Coillte does not have the site plans, it cannot continue on, as is the case with a private contractor? If the private contractor does not have the plan, his application is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Issues: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 May 2021)

Martin Browne: I have a good few questions and I will do them in lots of three. I welcome the guests. I am disappointed, as others have said, that we are still discussing how to reach the target the Department has set. We seem to be standing still or going backwards and the buck has to stop with the Department and the Minister. It is wrong that we are seeing businesses close, as the Chair and Deputy...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 May 2021)

Martin Browne: Irish life has been turned upside down during this pandemic and the public has been dealing with challenges, demands and limitations that before the beginning of last year could not even have been imagined as materialising. Materialise they did, however. With the onset of the Covid-19 crisis, every person in this country had to deal with the fear of the unknown virus, its effects, how...

Independent Beef Regulator: Motion [Private Members] (26 May 2021)

Martin Browne: These are the reasons Sinn Féin has been calling for the establishment of an independent meat regulator which would have real powers to ensure transparency and to enter and search, seize documents and records and summon witnesses, and have the ability to demand information from third parties. What we need is an independent authority which has a remit over price reporting. Our farmers...

Independent Beef Regulator: Motion [Private Members] (26 May 2021)

Martin Browne: This is a welcome opportunity to discuss unfair practices that our farmers have been subjected to for years, while all the time, their concerns have been ignored; allowing the meat industry to take them for granted. We have seen farmers continually disadvantaged at every turn, despite the efforts they made through their representative organisations or in some cases, by themselves, when they...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (26 May 2021)

Martin Browne: 171. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a case in which an employee who is in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment and has not been told when they will be returning to work back by their employer despite the business having reopened; her views on whether it is appropriate for an employee who has been left in limbo by their employer is now...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Data (25 May 2021)

Martin Browne: 55. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the quantity and value of arms and dual use equipment exported by Ireland to Israel each year for the past ten years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27875/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 May 2021)

Martin Browne: 279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the impact the 2040 planning framework will have on house building in rural Ireland; his further views on whether this is appropriate to home building in rural communities given the rising house prices and the worsening housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27873/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (25 May 2021)

Martin Browne: 326. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the companies which supply helmets and uniform equipment to the Defence Forces; and the amount spent on this equipment per year for the past ten years. [27874/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 May 2021)

Martin Browne: 497. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána will be recruiting in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27872/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Martin Browne: 517. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there has not been a significant increase in the issuing of private licences for the weeks ending 16 April, 23 April, 30 April and 7 May 2021 when over this same period Coillte has only issued seven felling licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27451/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Martin Browne: 518. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a definition of Coillte felling and private felling based on the forestry licensing dashboard, as presented by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27452/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Martin Browne: 519. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine where Coillte submits a licence application and it is not the landowner but acts as an agent for the landowner, if the data get presented as Coillte or private on the weekly dashboard when the licence is issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27453/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Martin Browne: 520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of licences issued with ecology input from June 2020 to date in 2021, by month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27454/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Statutory Instruments (25 May 2021)

Martin Browne: 521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Department was consulted during the drafting or at any point prior to the introduction of SI No. 45 of 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27455/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rewetting of Peatland and its Impact on Farmers: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2021)

Martin Browne: I have a few questions on the Vote. A working group has been set up to discuss the effects that the ban on peat harvesting will have on the horticultural industry. The group has only just given its interim report to the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, and the recommendations are weeks away from being published. Is the Department aware that suppliers to the industry are fearful that they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rewetting of Peatland and its Impact on Farmers: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2021)

Martin Browne: Yes, if the witnesses do not have answers than please supply a written response.

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (25 May 2021)

Martin Browne: I welcome all attendees to our meeting. Yesterday, the Ceann Comhairle of the Dáil, Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl, and the Cathaoirleach of the Seanad, Senator Mark Daly, appealed to everybody in the parliamentary community to continue to follow public health advice, to wear a mask and to maintain social distancing. I request that members, witnesses and staff use wipes and...