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Written Answers — Department of Health: Forestry Sector (11 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 962. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1108 of 28 April 2021, the way in which 2,448ha of forestry were planted in 2020 when his Department only issued financial approvals for 2,355ha on receipt of forms 1A and from this only 1,889ha has been planted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23905/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Forestry Sector (11 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 963. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1112 of 28 April 2021, if a particular case (details supplied) was set aside and remitted back to him due to the fact that the screening process was not done correctly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23906/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (11 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 964. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1113 of 28 April 2021, the grades of the remaining 12 full-time equivalent ecologists working on forestry matters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23907/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Forestry Sector (11 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 965. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an average of around 45 licences has been issued in each week for 2021 going by the quarter 1 dashboard figures between all of the approximate 60 forestry inspectors and ecologists of all grades dealing with forestry licence applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23908/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Forestry Sector (11 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 966. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1116 of 28 April 2021, if his Department and the Forest Service were aware of the requirements before receiving the document from the NPWS in August 2012; if so, the reason the correct policies and procedures were not put in place to comply with EU law; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (11 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 967. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1117 of 28 April 2021, the name of the person selected to be the project manager for Project Woodland and not any experts hired to assist with the implementation of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23910/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (11 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 968. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures being put in place to accommodate farmers still affected by the mudslide in 2020 near Drumkeeran, County Leitrim when it comes to applying for BPS; if their land which remains covered in mud from the event will be ruled out for payments; the communication his Department had with the farmers on the matter; and if he...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It was gone by May.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Rural schools.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What happens the power system when there is no wind?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is ten years away.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What will it be?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is ten years away.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: For fuck's sake we are in a world of our own.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on this Bill. Over the past number of months, I have heard the Minister, Deputy Ryan, talk about the number of houses that will be retrofitted over the next decade and what we can do, especially for older people. Today is Thursday. Earlier this week, I saw two letters issued by Roscommon County Council to elderly people regarding grant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan and its Implications for the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the witnesses. My first question is for Mr. Lumley. I have a few quick, short questions for him. He talked about reclamation and draining soils. Some 44,000 farmers in Ireland make their living, be it sheep or suckler farming with some of them dairy farming in the likes of Listowel and places like that, from peaty soils that have been drained, for which the EU actually gave them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan and its Implications for the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Hold on. If the land into which farmers put shores - that is how reclamation is done - is where the cattle and sheep are farmed and if Mr. Lumley is saying that should not be allowed but that it should be let go wild, then how are they going to farm? This is a very simple question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan and its Implications for the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am not just talking about uplands. I am talking about lowlands. There was raised bog that was cut away in Listowel, Galway, Tipperary, in any county in Ireland, and the farmers are now farming the land. They have shored the land whereby one puts in chips and does work on it. If An Taisce is saying to them now that they cannot farm that land - they may be struggling at the moment but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan and its Implications for the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No, I want your solution to how they can live.