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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 408. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to relax the criteria stipulating that a person must be unemployed for at least one year in order to avail of the community employment and Tús schemes, in light of increasing unemployment figures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31513/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 409. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a prospect of creating a two-tier scheme for Tús in a scenario (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31514/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 410. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered extending the base of those who can apply for the Tús scheme from those who are in receipt of jobseeker’s benefit to include those on other forms of social welfare payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31515/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 411. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to fuse the Tús and community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31516/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 412. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if supervisors within the Tús and community employment schemes could be afforded further discretion to allow members of the schemes to transfer from community employment to Tús and vice versa in order to increase their employability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31517/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if rules regarding access to the Tús scheme can be relaxed in light of Covid-19 and in order to increase intake into the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31518/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 559. To ask the Minister for Health if a person driving a patient from Thurles to Limerick three times pera week for dialysis is entitled for be reimbursed for expenses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30929/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 715. To ask the Minister for Health when the FreeStyle Libre device will be available to adult diabetics to assist in the management and control of their illness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31532/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Grants (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 775. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is funding available for the maintenance of an oak plantation that is 150 years old and has significant environmental benefits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31004/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Joint Committee (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: Due to Covid restrictions we must conduct the meeting within a strict timeframe. I got a lecture coming down the stairs on this, which I will put up with. Members are requested that for the duration of the meeting phones are turned off completely or turned to airplane, safe or flight mode. It is not sufficient for members to put their phones on silent as this maintains a level of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: Today is the first on a couple of meetings on the challenges for the forestry sector. We will hear about Ash dieback and licensing. The meeting will be in two parts. In the first, we will hear from a representative of the Limerick Tipperary Woodland Owners Limited to discuss Ash dieback which is a very great issue in that part of the country. Foresters have suffered severe financial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: Three other Deputies want to get in and I will let them in together, then the questions can be answered, because we are going to run into time issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: I will allow Deputy Leddin to ask a question and then we will get the answers together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: I want to be fair to Deputy Leddin as well and to give him a chance. We can ask all the questions together and if there is time Deputy Carthy can put his question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: Similar questions were asked by Deputies Carthy, Leddin and others. Significant financial losses have been suffered by forestry growers. That has been clearly established. Deputies Carthy and Leddin inquired about the importation of the ash trees. When, why and under whose authority were they imported and were they inspected on arrival? Deputy Fitzmaurice asked a question on what would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: What was the advice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: It is 1,100 or 1,200 to the acre. I call Deputy Carthy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: I know we are worried about the future of ash. The focus, however, is that the witnesses have lost huge amounts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. Obviously, there has been a serious financial loss for all the growers of ash and as far as the growers are concerned, these issues have not been addressed. This is the first of a series of meetings we are having on forestry and ash dieback. We will put questions on ash dieback to departmental officials when they appear before us and ask them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: We shall resume. We are joined in this session by representatives from the Irish Farmers Association: Mr. Tim Cullinan, president; Ms Geraldine O'Sullivan, senior policy executive; and from outside Leinster House via remote connection are Mr. Vincent Nally, chairman of the forestry committee; Mr. Charlie Doherty, vice-chairman, forestry committee; and Mr. Damian McDonald, director general....