Results 461-480 of 766 for speaker:Pippa Hackett
- 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.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Basically, there is a dual planning requirement under the reconstitution and underplanting scheme, RUS. If a person is converting deciduous to conifer, he or she actually needs planning permission plus a licence to finally remove-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: At the moment, any trees that are planted on land-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: It is something we are working on and of which we are cognisant. It is fair to say that even since trees were planted, and I do not even know the date from which this happened, farms are still in receipt of their basic payment scheme, BPS, payment under that area whereas previously, that was removed from the direct payments. It is something on which we are following up. When we have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: I certainly will. We will certainly see what we can do. That really is unacceptable. I know it is probably one of the more extreme examples but that does not excuse it. It is unacceptable that is happening. In terms of Senator Lombard's statement, we certainly need timelines in terms of when we get back to people with information and not just say that we do not know or will let them...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: I will certainly get a note as to where we are at.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: We will pull that together. I will get that sent on to the committee.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Apr 2022)
Pippa Hackett: In light of this morning's historic, powerful and emotive address from President Zelenskyy and at a time of increasing pressure on homeowners, businesses and farmers, it is crystal clear we must do everything we can to starve Russia from its fossil fuel funds. One way we can do that is by increasing our rates of renewable energy production in any way we can. Each of us has a potential role...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Mar 2022)
Pippa Hackett: I offer a warm welcome to the deputy ambassador from Greece and my sympathies to the ambassador, Ekaterini Simopoulou. I had a wonderful trip to Athens last week as part of the St. Patrick's Day celebrations so it is great to see our colleagues in the Chamber. Of late, there have been a number of calls for the reopening of midlands bogs as a solution to rising energy costs but these calls...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Mar 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Am I coming in ahead of someone else?