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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Mar 2022)

Pippa Hackett: I think I may have skipped about two people.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Mar 2022)

Pippa Hackett: I need to speak doubly quick now or I will run out of time. Our economic system is having detrimental impacts on our planet. While the current crisis in Ukraine is first and foremost a humanitarian crisis and we cannot and must not lose sight of that reality, it highlights nonetheless just how quickly difficulties can arise when our needs are dependent on imports. The past few months,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2022)

Pippa Hackett: Are there many before me? I do not mind-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2022)

Pippa Hackett: I will also speak about International Women's Day. I believe it should be a time of review and reflection. Typically, it fills me with hope and renewed commitment to the cause of equality. This year's theme, break the bias, certainly hammers that home. I am also using this week to reflect on lessons learned from some of the amazing women from the midlands I have had the privilege to meet...

Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (8 Mar 2022)

Pippa Hackett: Yes I will take those amendments as grouped. The effects of these amendments taken together appears to be to expand the scope of the points system for masters provided for under the Bill currently, to encompass masters who are citizens of another member state, as distinct from Irish citizens. The amendments would require, in effect, that the Minister would have to set up a register to cover...

Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (8 Mar 2022)

Pippa Hackett: I thank the Acting Chairperson and Senators for their constructive contributions on the Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021. I and the Government appreciate their constructive engagement. Implementation of the points system is very urgent given the long delay since 2012, the ongoing EU infringement proceedings and the suspension of funding by the European Union through the...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament (23 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: I welcome Ambassador Cronin and our MEP colleagues, Billy Kelleher and Seán Kelly and, in particular, my party colleague, Grace O'Sullivan, whose seat I was most fortunate to take in the by-election following her election to the European Parliament. I want to address the subject of the EU just transition fund, which we are finalising and will submit to the Commission very soon. I take...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: Yesterday, Offaly County Council was pushed to provide safe houses for victims of domestic violence. It was asked to do so out of its housing allocation as a matter of urgency but the council's response was that it needed more time. I understand anyone's plea for more time but when we face a crisis, time is often something of which we have little. Recently, I met with Offaly Domestic...

Seanad: Report of Joint Committee on Agriculture and the Marine: Motion (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: I thank my Seanad colleagues for the invitation to speak today. I also welcome Deputy Cahill to the Seanad. I very much welcome the detailed consideration that went into this report. I and my Department have had several engagements with the committee since the report's publication last March, and we have updated members on the steps being taken to address the recommendations made. The...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: I do not know about that.

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: It is important to say this is enabling legislation. Not one tree will be planted under this legislation until the scheme is in place. That is important to know. Any trees planted outside of the scheme, if the area is more than 0.1 ha, will be subject to the regulations and the legislation under the current forestry Act. To speak to Senator Higgins’s points, which I understand and...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: In terms of tracking, currently all areas are mapped and visible as forestry parcels are planted and that will continue under any such scheme we introduce. As the Senator is aware EU law trumps domestic law and we have engaged with the legal advice not only in my Department but in the Office of the Attorney General, who feels that it is acceptable to conduct the scheme, and make the scheme...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: No, we are still satisfied regarding the suggestions in this amendment and in a later amendment of Senator Higgins in which there is a rather exhaustive, and absolutely justifiable, list, but they all belong in the regulations and not in the primary legislation.

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: Briefly, there have been a number of issues covered in relation to section 4. I want to thank the Senators for proposing this. I know we are not talking to the amendments, but I am generally supportive of the policy objectives of the Senators here. The policy point is important. My Department is already working on a proposal that is very much in keeping with the amendment which the...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: Do I have to wait until we get there, even though people spoke to this section?

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: I thought they spoke on the environmental impact assessment, EIA.

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: Will I stop there?

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: That is fine. Will I wait until we get to the section in question? I already spoke about the question of redundancies.

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: I will briefly respond on any EIAs required where demolition is carried out. Certainly, if an EIA is required, that is provided for in the legislation in terms of the compensation. My understanding is that will be covered. On the calculation of the compensation, calculation of the recent profits of a business is normally used as a means of placing a value on such a company. Ordinarily,...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: No, I did not say that. I said that the Department is still considering the statutory redundancy piece. The other issue I was bringing back to the Oireachtas relates to section 4. It was the amendment proposed by the Sinn Féin Senators regarding the dogs. The Department is working on a proposal very much in keeping with the proposed amendment and that will come before the Oireachtas.