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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: I am quite sure my Department officials have engaged quite extensively with their Scottish counterparts, and while there is much to learn and take on board from the Scottish model, as I said not that long ago, there are quite significant differences between the Scottish model and our Irish model. Our average plantation size here is something like 7 ha. In Scotland it is 40 ha. The scale is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: In regard to the strategy, we are in the process of continuing to engage with different stakeholders. My Department has had bilaterals with nearly every stakeholder who wants to engage with that process. We have engaged with Irish Rural Link which has communicated with communities. Behaviour & Attitudes conducted a survey on public attitudes to forestry. We are in the process of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: The timber manufacturing piece is massive. We have a housing crisis that is going to grow and grow and we need to build more homes simply from timber. It is low carbon, it displaces high carbon concrete and steel and we absolutely need to support that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: As the Deputy probably knows, we have just conducted a regulatory review with Philip Lee whose draft report is now in front of members of the forestry policy group. Unfortunately, there is not a silver bullet to get us out of this but I think there is some good stuff in that report. We are going to work with the members of the forestry policy group and Project Woodland to tease out the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: I will pass the question to Mr. Delany.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: The RUS scheme only opened in June 2020, did it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: It is not straightforward. As the Deputy said, on one hand, we have targets. Ultimately, if it is all wrapped up under climate action, we need a bit of balance in terms of what we do with peat and trees. We obviously need to plant more trees and extract less peat. Both of those deliver. At this particular time, it is incredibly frustrating for people on the ground. To get back to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: We are actually-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: I do not know on a case-by-case basis. Mr. Delany can elaborate in terms of where we are going.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: They are two separate issues. I accept that the planting is a responsibility of my Department. However, we do not own or plant the land. We need to engage and, as the Deputy rightly said, communicate positively-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Can the Deputy please repeat that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: We do not hold it up. We try to operate as efficiently as we can within the constraints of the environmental legislation. There is no getting around that. I can assure the Deputy that everyone wants a solution, nobody more so than my own officials.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: I am glad to say that Irish Rural Link has engaged with, as far as I understand, all the Save groups. It is part of my review process for the new strategy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: That is where we are moving towards in terms of a strategy. We need to get a-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: We are waiting to see what comes out of the public consultation and what we engage with in the strategy. That will help form our future strategy for the next ten, 15 and 20 or even 100 years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Not at the moment. I am not going to pre-empt any proposals just now. We will wait-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: I am sorry, perhaps I misinterpreted what the Deputy asked. Currently, we have changed how we plant at the moment. I accept absolutely the concerns of those communities because when those trees were planted 20 or 30 years there was no setback distance and they were right up against roads, rivers and houses. There is a setback now. There is a greater requirement for spaces for biodiversity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: I am not going to pre-empt any proposals. We will deal with them following the strategy and the consultation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: At the outset, I would like to address this issue. I did not hear all of the interactions from the previous sitting. In the past, there have been personalised attacks in this room against officials in my Department. It is entirely wrong. I do not think it is appropriate and I call on Deputies, Senators and others to desist from that. It is just not right to identify people in my...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: My officials are working incredibly hard to address the dysfunctionality in the system.