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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: As has been said previously, confidence in the forestry sector is at an all-time low. There are so many things against it. The Minister of State will appreciate issues with land being made available, with the derogation rules, Gresham House sourcing and buying land, and another dimension in Kerry, where the national parks or environmental organisations, with approval from the Government,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I agree that farmers should be entitled to do what they wish to with their own land, whatever it is. For farmers who wish to buy extra land to plant with trees for timber, the Department seems to favour trees for timber and the construction of houses. There is another rule as well, the 80% rule, whereby one has to have 80% green ground vis-à-vis20% of outside or rough ground as we call...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: There have been a lot of meetings of this Oireachtas committee where we all made many serious contributions on the granting of felling licences. The Minister of State says the situation has improved a bit. It has improved for some but others are having serious difficulty and are waiting a long time to get a licence. Surely there must be a presumption that when forestry is planted, it will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: How long does a licence last?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Going back to the mid-1980s, we were planting what we call boggy ground that time. There has been massive growth in spruce trees in those places. In fact, they have been replanted in recent times, about ten years ago. Is the Minister of State saying that type of ground cannot be planted any more?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is what the Ministers say, but I do not agree with them. I suppose we have to be fair and admit that spruce trees would sequester way more carbon than broadleaf trees. Do the Ministers agree with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have one other question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Are the Ministers aware that there is a policy at the present time, especially in national parks, whereby fallen timber cannot be removed? It is supposed to be left there to rot. Are they also aware that this is where the insect that spreads Lyme disease thrives? That has harmed and hurt so many people who have visited our forests. I just want the Ministers to answer this question. Are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I ask the Ministers to come back to the committee with the answer to that because it is a very serious problem, especially around the national parks in Killarney.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: To be clear, is what the Ministers are saying that no more boggy ground can be planted, only good land? Farmers are already under pressure for more land with derogation and everything else. The Minister is saying there is a problem with sourcing land, without saying it.

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin for moving this important motion. We all saw those people who came up so organised last week and highlighted their plight. It was one of the largest crowds that has been outside the gates for much of the time I have been here. The story now is this has gone as far as parents having to ensure they have a childcare place before they actually have the child. It has...

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: First, I have to say that my family operates a school bus service and has for many years. All parents really depend on school bus transport to take their children to school. Practically all parents need their children to be taken to school safely. Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Governments promised that when the outlying school would be closed down, the schoolchildren would be...

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: And it did not do any good.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Budget 2024 (3 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional funding will be provided in Budget 2024 for the primary education system to ensure mental health supports and reduce class sizes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42326/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (3 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: 526. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42308/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: 530. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if additional funding will be provided for the childcare sector in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42323/23]

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: This Bill is about switching or joining Ervia to Gas Networks Ireland and putting control of the pipes under one heading. However, the question is whether there will be any gas in the pipes. As has been said, if there is any breakdown or any shortage of supply coming from the direction we are getting it at present, it is surely only common sense to say the French, the English and all...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is no doubt that housing for renters and people without homes is a desperate problem. The only answer is to build more social housing. I do not thank People Before Profit for bringing the motion before the House. I firmly believe People Before Profit and its motions have caused more harm to the private rental sector than all the rest of what is happening in the country.

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: People Before Profit is the main cause of it. It has house owners frightened away from renting their housing. At the clinics I hold in my neck of the woods - I hold them all over the county - people tell me they have houses to rent for €600, €700 or €800 a month but they are afraid that if they let people in for the year or two in which they want to rent the property,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is a very important committee. It has a very important role to play as there are a lot of issues with our roads. I welcome all the witnesses. I thank them for their work. They dwelt a lot on road regulations, and the penalties and speed limits and all that but alongside that, we need to deal with the issues with our roads. Sadly, there has been an increase in fatalities. We need to...