Results 761-780 of 2,691 for speaker:Tim Lombard
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: Regarding the announcement she made today in respect of 1 ha or 2 ha, depending, can the Minister of State elaborate on the conditions pertaining? What type of forest is allowed? Is it strictly native wood or are we looking at opening it to any kind of forestry?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: Is there a replanting obligation? Will the farmland on which it is proposed to plant be harvested in time? If the land were to be harvested, would there be replanting obligations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: Will the Department be providing a list of species of plants that can be planted?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: Would 4,000 ha be an appropriate figure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: Mr. Moore reflected on the previous programme and the amount of peaty soil that was used in it. He might give me that percentage again. What was the percentage that was used in the programme from 2017 onwards?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: Some 25% was on peaty soil.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: Will the replanting obligation be applicable to those plots of land whenever the trees mature?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: They will be brought back into the circle.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: The Minister went into detail about the conference about timber he attended. That was an important conference that I missed. We are being told that 70% or 75% of homes will be made of timber by 2050. It will be the norm when we are building homes. Has the Department a figure regarding how much wood is required to service that industry? The industry is evolving and changing. It is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: My worry is about the 2050 felling times. If one takes where we are with the product that has been planted over the last five years, it has been quite limited. We are moving to a different phase of planting. When one does that calculation, we will be exporting very little, if anything.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: Is the Minister of State confident that the Department has done modelling of this? Could that modelling possibly be made available to us, if the Department could do so?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: Is Mr. Moore talking about 8,000 ha or 2,000 ha a year in his replanting figures?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: I will ask my last question because I realise there is a clock, and the Chair is a bit cranky at times.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: I want to ask about the information technology, IT, systems within the Department itself. Is the Minister of State proposing an upgrade to or change of the IT systems? Is she happy with how they are working at the moment? Talking to the industry, it seems to have issues pertaining to the IT system itself, in that it has not been upgraded. The new system is not available to the industry...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: The replanting obligation is a psychological issue for many farmers. When farmers buy into it, we hope they buy into it for life or for generations, rather than having the obligation of replanting. When members of the committee went to Brussels, we were told the European Union does not have a policy for forestry, but a strategy. Forestry policy is up to individual member states. I ask for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: Is it a regulation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: Is that environmental legislation or forestry legislation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: That is the point I was trying to make. It was an environmental regulation rather than a forestry regulation. The forestry regulations do not come through the European Union.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: It is an interesting debate, though.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Tim Lombard: That is very good. Some 8,000 ha has been proposed and that is a figure we will fight about. To be honest, with the competition over land for use in dairy, tillage, forestry and beef, that is, to say the least, an ambitious figure. What does the Minister of State think would be an appropriate figure for what could be planted next year with the programme up and running? I do not think that...