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

Joanne Collins: From what I can see, it will cost them to replant before they get anything back. Where will they get the money to replant without getting an the grant upfront?

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

Joanne Collins: Afterwards.

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

Joanne Collins: That is provided that everything from the grant covers the felling, the contractors to come in and do it and the replanting. Is it guaranteed that outside of that extra €5,000, the other part of the grant will cover everything?

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

Joanne Collins: So the Minister of State is saying the €10,000 per hectare will cover it, guaranteed, with money left over.

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

Joanne Collins: I am only asking because I do not know.

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

Joanne Collins: That is why I am asking the Minister of State the question.

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

Joanne Collins: That there will be money left over.

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

Joanne Collins: I have never cleared forestry, so I do not know the answer.

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

Joanne Collins: My assumption that they would leave it idle because they could not afford to clear it first themselves.

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

Joanne Collins: The Minister of State needs to go out and ask questions, because I have heard from many people.

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

Joanne Collins: I will leave it at that because I am nearly out of time. I want to come off the ash dieback and go to forestry in general. I apologise for missing the very start of the meeting because I was in the Seanad speaking. Is the Minister of State still going ahead with the idea of planting on peatland?

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

Joanne Collins: I missed it.

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

Joanne Collins: Okay.

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

Joanne Collins: So the peat the Department will plant on will not lead to any carbon being emitted.

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

Joanne Collins: I do. I am only asking-----

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

Joanne Collins: Yes, but will the Department plant on these lands? I am only asking because they do emit carbon.

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

Joanne Collins: They do. It is a proven fact that they emit carbon when they are planted on and again when they are harvested and replanted. We are going towards reduced carbon in this country so we do not have to pay fines from Europe. If these lands produce more carbon than they suck in and we are making carbon in this country, are we going to refund the carbon tax to people?

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

Joanne Collins: Yes.

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

Joanne Collins: I do.

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

Joanne Collins: So the lands the Minister of State is talking about are the ones that do not emit any carbon.