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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: They are more creative.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: As regards procurement etc., they are far more creative than we are.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Meanwhile this happens. I want to know how this will work because it relates to public money. If Gresham House comes in and buys 100 ha in Cavan, for example, who plants the land? There were some answers given on this issue but I do not know how accurate they are. Who prepares the ground? Who drains it? Who puts in the roads? Who plants the land? Does Coillte do so?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: I understand that Coillte does it. I know people working in the area who take contracts from Coillte. When the land is bought, it has to be developed, with roads, drainage and planting. Is Coillte doing that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Who pays for it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Who pays for it? Will Coillte pay for it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Is there a cost to Coillte, which is a public body?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Obviously, when it is harvested, the ISIF will get money back. Is there a benefit to Coillte or the public purse in any other way out of that, however?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: There are figures available with regard to what is projected in the context of Gresham House. Who will own the carbon credits that will be assessed on each hectare of that land? Carbon credits are worth money.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: There could be, however. Bord na Móna is getting involved in carbon sequestration, for example. That is a good thing. It will be able to sell the benefits of that. It is turning it into a funding stream to the benefit of communities and the State. Who will own the carbon credits in the context of Coillte and Gresham House? It is clear that it will accrue economically. Who will...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: I know that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: I know all that. Coillte needed to get back into the game a decade ago. It is late coming back into it. I am asking a specific question. In the context of Gresham House coming in and purchasing land, the role of Coillte and the benefit or liabilities to the taxpayer, how will this work? Will there be a lien on the public purse? What happens with carbon credits? Anybody who says that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Overall, that is correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: That is true for all marketplaces.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: There is the value of it. Are we going to meet our targets and commitments? That is the question. Are other countries going to do so? States that do not meet them can buy credits, as can companies. It can change. That is the point I am making. Deputy Verona Murphy wishes to come in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: I would not be an expert on any area of Brexit. However, the general feeling on the ground is that there was enormous anxiety and worry across the transport and farming sectors in respect of food safety and all of that. I acknowledge that the Department seems to have done a good job. It was in uncertain territory. When one is dealing with people who change their minds even after they have...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: What happens in Belfast and Larne in regard to food safety and animal health? How is that panning out? That is always the question. There was an attempt to stop any posts being erected or checks taking place. Staff were ordered away from the ports. All sorts of game-playing was going on. Are there any implications now or is it working satisfactorily?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Is there a high level of co-operation there? If we go back to the incidence of foot-and-mouth disease, the 32-county approach saved the country. I remember the outbreak as a child in the late 1960s when we had to put our feet into a bath of water with disinfectant. We have the advantage of being an island and everyone gets the logic of having the checks at the ports, bar anyone who does...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: One of the big consequences is that this State is part of the Single Market and it would put all of that in jeopardy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: It is good to hear that because obviously with the fact that there is no government in the North we are relying on officials. As there is no political oversight, there is a bit of anxiety around that.