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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Tom Hayes: I cannot agree. This issue was raised on Second Stage. At the time, I stressed that the inclusion of this provision within the Bill should not be interpreted as a statement of intent. I also reminded Deputies that the Department does not charge for forestry licences or for any of its scheme applications, and this remains the position. It is a matter of policy whether the Minister should...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Tom Hayes: I appreciate what the Deputy is saying. I will consider introducing an amendment on Report Stage. This amendment could require the Minister, prior to signing a regulation to charge fees under this section, to bring the draft regulation before the committee or something like that. I will give it consideration, because I understand what the Deputy is saying.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Tom Hayes: While I have not formally proposed an amendment to section 25, I will be reviewing section 25(1) on Report Stage with a view to allowing the issuing of a replanting order where a person has failed to comply with the requirement of a felling licence to replant. This subsection allows for replanting orders where unlicensed felling or where trees have been seriously damaged.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Tom Hayes: I will be reviewing it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Tom Hayes: Deputy, I am not being smart, but I find it hard to see how it would be good for farmers. Landowners must be able to manage their land in the best way possible under the guidelines. The Deputy proposes to allow the land to grow wild and future generations may not be allowed to manage the land.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Tom Hayes: I move amendment No. 90: In page 19, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following:“20. (1) Where a replanting order is served on any person (including a variation to such an order under section 25(9)), the Minister may, as soon as may be after so serving or varying the order, send a copy thereof to the Authority which shall—(a) in the case of registered land, register the...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Tom Hayes: It is amendment No. 88, which is the next amendment to be discussed.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Tom Hayes: I move amendment No. 88: In page 18, between lines 43 and 44, to insert the following:“(2) A tree within—(a) the curtilage or attendant grounds of a protected structure under Chapter 1 of Part IV of the Act of 2000, (b) an area subject to a special amenity area order, or (c) a landscape conservation area under section 204 of the Act of 2000, shall not be an exempted tree, unless...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Tom Hayes: Yes.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Tom Hayes: I take the Deputy's point that the average farmer may not be able to judge if a tree is 3 cu. m, but the Department's inspectors will know the answer. One can calculate how much timber is needed to fill a 10 ft. by 6 ft. trailer.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Tom Hayes: One will know then how much timber is needed to fill a trailer of a certain size. Most farmers will know how much timber is required because they use the size of their trailers to calculate loads. Deputy Tom Barry is a farmer and will know better than anybody that that is how farmers calculate loads.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Tom Hayes: It must be acknowledged that a balance must be struck between the protection of forests and a landowner's ability to retain existing fields in agriculture. It is a tree's natural instinct to colonise open space and if fields are managed less intensively they will become woodland eventually. I recognise the importance of scrub woodland and its role as a reservoir of species and an area of...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Tom Hayes: The Bill provides that a farmer can manage the hedgerows. There is an exemption in respect of the blackthorn and the hawthorn, but the Bill allows for the matters raised by the Deputies.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Tom Hayes: The basis for a size threshold is to strike a balance, as the Deputy mentioned, between allowing farmers to manage hedgerows actively and reducing requirements for felling licences. The effect of placing a 20 cm threshold means that a farmer can manage hedgerows in accordance with good agricultural practice without being required to apply for a licence. Reducing the threshold to 10 cm,...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Tom Hayes: Yes.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Tom Hayes: It is not in the Deputy's nature.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Tom Hayes: We have come to know that.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Tom Hayes: I have limited the exemption from the licensing requirement by excluding trees greater than 3 cu. m in volume. This is a large tree and should remain within the licensing system. It is important to understand that the Bill's primary purpose is forestry, the sustainable management of forests and, in appropriate circumstances, the protection of other important trees in the wider landscape. ...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Tom Hayes: I move amendment No. 82: In page 18, to delete lines 28 to 32 and substitute the following: “(iii) on an agricultural holding and removed by the owner for use on that holding, provided—(I) it does not form part of a decorative avenue or ring of trees, (II) its volume does not exceed 3 cubic metres, and (III) the removal of it, by the owner for the foregoing purpose, when taken...