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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: That question has not been answered. What is the point in continuing to not answer further questions? How can Coillte be so far out in its forecasts?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: It is 3.024 million down to 2.3 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: Will the witness be doing that next year in the forecasts?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: Chairman, if they do not answer a question, do I have to put up with it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: Everybody else had a supplementary question as they went along. I intervened in the same way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: The witness is jumping past questions. What about the petition? Has the witness dealt with that question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: The witness knows now. What does he think of it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: I have now modified it. Will the witness answer it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: I asked the witnesses if they were aware that at a recent forestry industry event held in the UK, an oriented strand board manufacturer was asking participants to sign a petition requesting that pulp from Irish forests be made available to all the industry, not just Coillte board plants. The witness is obviously not aware of it. Now that he is, what does he think of it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: That is my understanding of it, but the witnesses are not aware of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: I will get the witnesses more information on it. It is something they should know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: I do not own Coillte's competitors, but I do own part of Coillte. It is my concern.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: It was 2012.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: It would not be private; we own it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: The notice we received for this meeting stated its purpose is to discuss the annual report but the document we have is not the annual report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: It is lovely but it does not tell us very much. Why is there a shortfall from 3.024 million cu. m to 2.3 million cu. m? A forecast done in December 2011 for 2012 should be more correct than this. Why was the volume available to the sawmills short while the volume of pulp sales was higher than forecast? Is Coillte protecting supplies to its own board mills? Is it possible that what is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: Can we record them? This is the benefit of these committee meetings. It is very important.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: 216. To ask the Minister for Finance if the banking licence held by the ACC Bank, will be handed in to the Central Bank when the bank closes; if this is the only option being examined by his Department; if he will consider selling off the bank, including its licence, brand and its outlets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49506/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Prospecting Licences (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: 387. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will confirm that a prohibition on the process of hydraulic fracturing or fracking exists here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49177/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Prospecting Licences (19 Nov 2013)
Luke Flanagan: 396. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of his decision not to award onshore petroleum prospecting licences due to the failure by companies (details supplied) to comply with the work programmes as set out by his Department; if he will confirm that the companies being in breach of the specific performance of the licensing terms, 2007, have vacated...