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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is a very important aim.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The federation should draw up a plan for that and if it needs the help of the good offices of this committee or politicians in general, it should ask for it. In the main, people understand this issue, even if they are not fully aware of the full consequences. The beekeepers have supporters, certainly among members of this committee who have expressed an interest. We will have witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Now I understand the reason.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is a matter of explaining it to the rest of the population to ensure they understand. That is why the funding needs to be provided so that it can be explained.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank Mr. Walsh for his passion and understanding of our responsibility. Maybe Kilkenny will do better in the hurling after adopting the symbol of the black and amber bee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am a Dublin man. Maybe they will beat Galway this week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To fast-track this, we on the committee might undertake to write to the councils to ask them what action they have taken. If our guests think that we can take any practical steps of that nature, I am willing to put the matter to the members over the next while. If they come across a stumbling block and think that our intervention would be useful, they should just ask for help. I think that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will call Deputy Ó Cuív because I have to go very soon and want to get a photograph with our guests beforehand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We will consider that for the next meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Gabhaim buíochas do na finnéithe. We can hear the passion. If the committee members did not understand previously, we understand now how important it is. Hopefully today's session gets the publicity it deserves. The witnesses have laid it out quite well and, hopefully, we will be able to impact on the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the Minister for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We would not have a problem with that. We are just not sure whether we will be here next year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is the nature of this job.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is true.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Threats to Native Bee Population: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Ag an stad seo, ba mhaith liom an cruinniú a chríochnú. Gabhaim buíochas ach go háirithe leis na hionadaithe ón gCónaidhm Chumainn Beachairí na hÉireann, the Federation of Irish Beekeepers Associations. I thank them for their contributions, which were very valuable.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (11 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a school (details supplied) for special needs assistants will be granted; and if a special needs assistant review will be carried out in the school. [24284/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (11 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 870. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and when a decision will issue on same. [23411/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Applications (11 Jun 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 960. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of an application to have a stair lift installed in their home by a person (details supplied); and when installation work will commence. [23343/19]

Report on Development and Working Conditions in the Irish Film Industry: Motion (30 May 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the secretarial staff, all of the Deputies who contributed and all of the organisations that contributed to putting the report together in the first instance. Their input led to a number of issues being highlighted in it, some of which seem to have been addressed by the various organisations and Revenue. The Minister listed them. I thank the Members who took part in the debate and...

Report on Development and Working Conditions in the Irish Film Industry: Motion (30 May 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move:That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht entitled 'Development and Working Conditions in the Irish Film Industry’, copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 12th July, 2018. Ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil as an deis labhairt ar an tuarascáil seo, tuarascáil...

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Global Assessment Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 May 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is interesting that the two debates, this and the one we had earlier, are interlinked. They flow into each other. Last night I talked about the five drivers of the negative effects we have seen on systems of biodiversity in this country and elsewhere. The same five drivers are having a negative effects throughout the world. I refer to the way we have exploited our land and sea. I...