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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: In section 5, the functions of the Minister, both general and specific, are set out in some detail. The general functions include a range of promotional responsibilities relating to forestry, including increased afforestation, good forest practice that maintains the biological diversity of forests, the promotion of knowledge and awareness of forestry through education and training, and the...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: It is important that it be beneficial for the country. If we were to change the threshold, the country would lose out and it would not be beneficial. The carbon credits are accrued and we count them. These are the figures with which I am presented. These are the facts.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: I cannot agree to the amendments. The "Rio forest principles" is the informal name given to the Non-Legally Binding Authoritative Statement of Principles for a Global Consensus on the Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development of All Types of Forests 1992, a document produced as an annex to the report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, UNCED, also...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: My understanding is that we will deal with this in section 11 on the protection of the environment.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: Authorised officers who are appointed will be suitably trained and qualified to act in a professional manner in respect of the duties undertaken under this Bill. Defining a suitably competent person for the purpose of the Bill would be difficult and could serve to exclude a range of professionals and skilled people who may not have recognised qualifications in forestry but whose expertise...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: I understand where the Deputies are coming from, but if one rules out a civil engineer for roads-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: Maybe we will look at it for Report Stage.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: I am not in a position to accept this amendment. For international reporting requirements, Ireland has used the definition in the text of the Bill. We are committed to using the same forestry definition for reporting to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The FAO definition may use 0.5 hectares but countries reporting to the FAO can use their own definitions, with Ireland having...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: A wide range of economic, environmental and social benefits are provided by native woodlands in terms of both the rich and varied habitats for a diverse range of native flora and fauna and their important recreational and landscape functions. The Department, through its native woodland scheme, has offered and continues to offer opportunities to protect, enhance and expand Ireland's native...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: I do not wish to postpone everything until Report Stage. Ultimately, responsibility for it lies with the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the various bodies that are in charge of it. They have responsibility for it.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: I do not wish to duplicate. The Forestry Bill pertains to forestry and its purpose is to help more people to become involved in planting forests on land that has been left idle and to make it easy for them. One of the biggest issues about which people have spoken to me over the six months since I took this job has been how difficult it was to get into forestry. This Bill is about making it...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: It has been ruled out of order.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: I cannot. It has been ruled out of order by those in charge and that is it.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: In this Bill, we want to make it easy and more accessible for persons, be they farmers, Coillte or whoever, to be involved in forestry and also to put it on a statutory footing as something that will be amenable for the sector. We have consulted widely and at length on this Bill, from the farming organisations to everybody involved in the sector, over a long period of time and we have...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: In an effort to be helpful in response to amendment No. 6, the Forestry Bill has already been subjected to a regulatory impact analysis process and the outcome of that process has been published. Any further regulatory analysis can be completed where necessary in the context of the regulation that will follow the passage of this Bill.

Seanad: Greyhound Racing Industry: Statements (19 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: I thank all the Senators for their contributions. Some of the matters raised are internal Bord na gCon day-to-day issues, but the debate has been worthwhile. The first thing I did when I got home from Dublin after my appointment last June was to drive down the road to Golden, near to where I live, to visit a man, Mr. Pat Dalton, who is known by everyone in the greyhound industry. He is one...

Seanad: Greyhound Racing Industry: Statements (19 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: We must await further information.

Seanad: Greyhound Racing Industry: Statements (19 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: I welcome this opportunity to have a discussion with Senators on Bord na gCon. As Members will be aware, Bord na gCon is a commercial State body established under the Greyhound Industry Act 1958 and is responsible for the control and development of the greyhound industry in Ireland. The most recent estimates available suggest that the greyhound industry underpins in excess of 10,000 jobs...

Other Questions: Aquaculture Development (11 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: Which Minister Coveney was Deputy Ó Cuív talking about?

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: I thank the Minister. We have had a good discussion on the amendment. Is the amendment being withdrawn?