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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: Whenever Deputy Nolan shows a bit of respect-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: On what matter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: I am only meeting the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine today. This is my first port of call. I am happy to meet all of the farming organisations about this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: Yes, I did yesterday, but the committee was one of the first to request a meeting and I respect the role of this committee. That is why I am here today to discuss the deal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: As I said, I met the committee first because I respect the role of the committee and I am happy to meet any of the farming organisations that make a request-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: I met the committee first and if I did not meet the committee first, Deputy Nolan would also be giving out yards. I am here to discuss it with the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: I meet them all the time but specifically on the Gresham House deal, it was only published in the last week or two weeks. I will meet any of the other farming organisations to discuss it, as I do on all issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: The usual rules apply in respect of organisations. I thought I made that clear to Deputy Nolan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: I am no expert on the cost of land, and there certainly-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: What I will say to Deputy Healy-Rae is that what it is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: What I am saying to the Deputy is that I am not qualified to answer that question but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: Deputy Healy-Rae-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy can ask an auctioneer that question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: It is 700 ha a year for the next five years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: That is the figure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: It is well established that Coillte itself cannot draw down premiums. Others can but Coillte cannot. There are state aid rules that apply there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: The rules around premiums are published and well known. All anybody needs to do is look at the criteria as to how you go about doing forestry and how you can draw the premiums down, so they would not have to ask such a question. Nobody would.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: I have no idea.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: I think that what I said was that farmers will be more advantaged by the premiums because, previously, whether you were a farmer or a non-farmer, you could get premiums for 15 years. With the new premiums which started from this month, farmers can get them for 20 years, as well as drawing down their single-farm premiums on forestry land too, whereas if you are a non-farmer you can get it for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: As I said, it is a legal contract which Coillte have entered into, and it is not for 100,000 ha of land. That is our ambition now to 2050, but the legal contract Coillte has entered into over the next five years amounts, on average, to buying 700 ha a year for five years for afforestation. It is legally contracted to do that. What I am doing, and what the Minister of State, Senator...