Results 441-460 of 755 for speaker:Pippa Hackett
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Yes, and I can assure Deputy Carthy that my officials are working incredibly hard to address the efficiency and effectiveness of the processes in place. That is certainly the case in the past year and a half to two years and they will continue to do that. People deny there have been any improvements but there have been improvements and the figures are there, not as quickly as many would...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: We have an organisational review, which is about to get under way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: We have tendered it out to a third party to do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: No, it was not the Deputy but people have generally done it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: No, I said some members are, which I think is accurate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: As the Deputy knows, we have doubled what we intend to issue in licences.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: The target would be to plant the licences we issue and to get a big chunk of those licences that are sitting there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: It depends on what we get in, but if the average afforestation licence is for 7,000 ha, multiplied by the number of licences, we cannot pre-empt what size of area is involved. Potentially, licences for approximately 9,000 ha could be issued this year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Our target is that we will issue licences for-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Listen. I am sorry, I would like to see every single one of those planted.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Potentially.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: I know full well what the question is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Of course we intend to plant what we have proposed to plant. Our intention is to issue licences for up to 9,000 ha through the current forestry programme, but it depends on what comes in. We might not get that number but that is our intention. We will deliver-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Ideally, all of them. Ideally, we will plant 9,000 ha, plus perhaps half of what is sitting there already. If people plant and we can meet our targets in terms of the licences we say we will issue, which I believe we will, we could plant 9,000 ha by the end of the year. It comes down to the licences received and the desire of farmers and landowners to plant. We know there is an issue...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: No, I never said that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: It is not other people's fault. The intention-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: As Deputy Carthy says, the programme for Government commitment is 8,000 ha, and as everyone knows, we have missed that for the last year and we were only in for half of the previous year. If we are to be honest, we plunged into the deep end, and we have been working our way out of that deep end of the pool up towards the shallow end - slower than we would like - but we are making our way...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: We have a target. As the Deputy knows, the programme for Government commitment is 8,000 ha.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Hopefully, we will issue licences for 9,000 ha this year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: That is fine. As far as I understand, those woods are not yet sold. I do not know much more than that. If Deputy Martin Browne wishes to submit his query in writing, I will feed that on to Coillte and get an answer for him. Taking the questions in reverse order, and addressing the issue of the environmental grant first, I will hand over to Mr. Delany to address this.