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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: There are 21.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: It is movement. To be honest, and I am sure the Deputy has read the report, many of those are not simply a matter of clicking one's fingers and it is done. Processes have to be put in place to enable the implementation of many of those elements. There is a lot of comparison with the Scottish model and while there are some similarities, there are also some very stark differences between...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Yes. It is a pernicious plant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: It is not a stunt.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: It is native planting. Perhaps in 40, 50 or 60 years, we will have hardwood processing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: No, if we look-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Sorry, Deputy, you heard from the Save groups before I came in here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Surely the Deputy has to absorb some of their concerns about the areas where they live that have been overrun by spruce plantations. We cannot ignore this. This is the position we are at. We have two opposing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: I do not know where that understanding came from. The overall plantation rate includes all trees. We do not say we are planting 8,000 ha of commercial forestry or spruce.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: That is just on afforestation licences.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: It is unfair to say the working groups are not working. They are working incredibly hard. They are made up of a broad spectrum of stakeholders from across the forestry, environment, farmer groups and community groups. It is difficult work because this is a very complex, difficult situation. To be honest I want to say hats off to them because they have worked incredibly hard this past...
- 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.