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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: It would not cover that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: I cut turf and drove machines too.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: Many of us have done that around here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: There is no premium for them initially for the replanting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: There is no upfront payment. I will move on to the huge problem we have in my part of the country with the windblow since Christmas. A lot of forestry was blown down. A lot of it has been granted licences. Some had licences already. Many have been issued licences since. There are still some problems in getting licences for people where various objections have been lodged and different...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: It is only pulp timber.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: Will the Minister of State have anything more for them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: I ask the Minister of State to reconsider that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: I only 50 seconds left. How many hectares of timber are planted in the State at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: It is 880,000 ha.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: If I divide that by 9,500 jobs, it makes one job per 92 ha approximately. The point is that in my part of the country many people are negative about forestry. The reason is that whole parishes and townlands have been wiped out because farm after farm has been planted, not usually by farmers, but by companies which bought the land farmers could not compete for. There is a lot of negativity....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: I do not have time to respond to the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: I understand.

Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: This is a positive step and a step in the right direction after many years of waiting. Like most public representatives, over the years I too have met and spoken with people from my constituency and other places who have been the victim of sexual abuse in schools. Sometimes it was an institution and sometimes it was not. The one thing that certainly strikes me is that the two were not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (15 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: 917. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will conduct interviews for home care workers in the south Leitrim area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39061/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Data (10 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: 141. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish citizens deported from the United States to Ireland from 1 January 2025 to date. [38381/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farm Safety: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: I thank all our witnesses for their opening statements. I grew up on a farm and we did a bit of contracting in a small way but it was 165s and 135s and smaller tractors than they have nowadays. We would put them in the link box with what they use today. I see youngsters driving very heavy machinery. I know they are probably a lot safer in the sense that they have better cabs on them and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farmer Mental Health and Well-being: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: I thank the representatives for their opening submissions. One thing that always strikes me-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farmer Mental Health and Well-being: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: One thing that always strikes me about agriculture and farming is we have this model within it where, for instance, there is social farming, whereby we bring people who have got mental health issues or are service users with intellectual disabilities out to a farm and out to nature, with animals and all of that, which is really positive for their mental health. Yet, we have this sort of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (9 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. Following on from Deputy Fitzmaurice, my understanding is that much of this proposal is for small and minor changes. However, it indicates the direction of travel in respect of the new CAP and is, therefore, of some interest. Ms McPhillips mentioned GAEC 2 and there is talk of some eco schemes coming into that. There is also more recognition...