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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: I am conscious of the time. I asked the Minister of State if she had any proposals to address the dysfunction.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: Who will carry that out?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: Okay. To clarify, I am sure the Minister of State was not inferring that I have in any way singled out officials in the Department.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: Earlier, the Minister of State accused members of this committee of being solely focused on the commercial side of forestry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: I do not know if the Minister of State has read the report on forestry that was agreed by this committee but I would argue that it was a very well balanced report that addressed all of the concerns and the roles forestry can play in terms of the commercial sector, the economic driver forestry can be and the community concerns that have not been addressed and the environmental role of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: What is the target for planting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: What is the number?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: Okay, so the target is for 9,000 ha of planting in 2022.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: That is not what I am asking the Minister of State. This is important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: The Minister of State flagged the programme for Government document-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: It does not have a target of potential licences being issued.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: Yes. If the Minister of State allows me to finish the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: The programme for Government does not say that this Government plans to issue licences for 8,000 ha of afforestation. The programme for Government commits the Government to delivering 8,000 ha of planting. The Government is now in its third year and it cannot even give us a figure as to what its target is for the end of this year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: How many hectares will be planted?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: No other Minister or anybody in public life would be allowed to come and say here is a key target that I have been given in the programme for Government but I cannot say how close we are going to get to reaching the target because it is the fault of other people if it does not happen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: That is essentially what the Minister of State is saying.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: Here is the crux of it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: The Minister of State says we "could". She does not have a target.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: And the Minister of State reached half of that last year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)
Matt Carthy: I welcome our guests back to the committee. The mechanism the Department and the Minister in particular have been using is becoming increasingly frustrating. It is a long-standing practice but it has become particularly prevalent where news of a headline scheme is leaked and we are all reading through different newspapers and columns to try to get the pertinent information. Generally...