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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: I would like clarification. Does the reclassification from 45 cm to 30 cm of peat apply for replanting on land that has been clear felled?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: Land that has already been planted can be replanted. I thank Mr. Delany for the clarification.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: Can land that was planted be replanted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: ...such a valuable crop here so we should not let it in. We will not even be able to replant if that beetle comes in. It stays. You cannot just clear-fell and start again. If the beetle is there, the land is useless for the production of timber going forward. I have spoken on ash dieback on numerous occasions and I had a Topical Issue matter taken on it last Thursday evening in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: The point I made is when land comes up in an area for afforestation, the way this forestry strategy has been designed, the investor coming in with the bottomless pocket will buy the land. That is my view and the Minister of State is not going to change it. Previously, the significantly higher premium the farmer received gave him an advantage in purchasing the land. That advantage does not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: We have to have a balance here too. We will not have the contractors if they are to be confined to doing their work in the depths of winter. It is often impractical to go onto land in mid-January. March is when the contractors really get the work done. What we are talking about is clear-felling. We have to have a balance and make it economically viable for contractors to operate in the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Forestry Sector (28 Sep 2023)

Jackie Cahill: ...TB, dioxin in pigs and severe financial losses being incurred in horticulture, compensation was always put in place. Here we have a disease that, in cases, has resulted in 20 or 25 years of given lands' productivity being lost. I have never seen loss on such a scale being incurred by farmers. We have had various schemes to encourage farmers to clear the sites but it can be seen from...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Forestry Sector (28 Sep 2023)

Jackie Cahill: ...room about the terrible financial consequences that ash dieback has brought on farmers. It is over ten years since ash dieback was discovered in this country and for the 16,000 hectares of land that attracted grant aid, unfortunately those farmers now have rubble instead of a profitable crop to harvest. I have been representing farmers for many years and I have never seen a case where a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Special Areas of Conservation (26 Sep 2023)

Jackie Cahill: 360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government why an individual’s land (details supplied) was delisted and how it can be designated again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41653/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2023)

Jackie Cahill: 735. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total hectares of land excluded from afforestation activity under bird exclusion zones within the new forestry programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39848/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2023)

Jackie Cahill: 736. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the area of land excluded from afforestation activity due to hen harrier designation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39849/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2023)

Jackie Cahill: 737. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the area of acid sensitive land excluded from afforestation activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39850/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)

Jackie Cahill: Is designated land the same?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Jackie Cahill: ...with derogations there and the water quality is improving very significantly. I did not want to be too argumentative when Mr. Callanan made a point earlier. He talked about dairy farmers taking up land to outrear their heifers. He was talking about land that is probably farmed extensively at the moment, and bringing it into an intensive farming situation. That will bring its own issues....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: EU Regulations (14 Jun 2023)

Jackie Cahill: ...McConalogue, has been doing to bring commonsense to these proposals coming from Brussels. From various meetings I have had with the Minister, I know he is working hard to make sure that public lands will play a huge part in achieving the targets that will be set down for rewetting and rewilding. That is to be welcomed. On designation, the last time we had a significant amount of land...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: EU Regulations (14 Jun 2023)

Jackie Cahill: ...Parliament now is open to question. The questions about and scrutinising of these proposals are long overdue. Farmers and rural people have worked extremely hard and spent much money to make land productive. There is a view that they would be forced to rewet this land and let it go back to a wild state. As I said, much clarity needs to be brought to what the proposals are. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Partnerships with Coillte: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Jackie Cahill: ...the timber at that particular time? Some of this is going back a number of years. I have talked to some of the forest owners. I find it hard to comprehend how a product could be taken off the land in circumstances where there is a contract in place and no weigh docket given to the owner of a plantation. I find that hard to understand. I am not adjudicating now because it is not my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Partnerships with Coillte: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Jackie Cahill: That is the question I asked before I left for the vote. It defies comprehension that products can be taken off a farm and the owner of the land not be given a weigh sheet to show what volume left. I cannot get my head around it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Revitalising Derelict and Vacant Homes on Farmland: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Jackie Cahill: I have one point. Not all vacant houses are on farmland in rural Ireland. We will find a lot of cases where there was a house on an acre of land and, when the older generation died out, the house was left empty. Some of those houses might be done up and sold if there was a tax incentive for the next generation. With regard to capital gains in a farm family situation, I fully accept that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Biomethane Renewable Gas: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Jackie Cahill: We have heard from representatives from various sectors. The biggest problem I see with this is that we are not making any more land. The competition for land is going to be intense. If one were to try to source ground at the moment to feed these plants, I do not know how it would be economically viable to do so. Banding and the pressure on dairy farmers to meet their stocking rate...