Results 81-100 of 263 for speaker:Natasha Newsome Drennan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: That son or daughter is new to the land so should have the option to opt out of the scheme even if he or she has harvested the trees. I do not know what way we would do it, but this issue has to be examined. New landowners should not be tied to what the preceding generation has done. They are the new landowners and they should be able to decide what they want to farm, not the preceding...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: Did the Minister of State not say earlier that people could plant trees and graze animals underneath?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: Is that a different scheme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: I still think that new landowners should not be tied to the scheme. They have not bought the land, so it is not like they have gone out, bought a forest and decided to graze animals on the land. Therefore, the scheme needs to be examined. Perhaps the new landowners want to continue with the scheme but they should not have to and the scheme should not be a noose around their necks. They...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: What are the consequences for a farmer who does not plant land that has lain idle for ten years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: They did not sign up for it. Their parents before them signed up for it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: They did not sign up for it. They did not sign a way out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: I ask the Minister of State to please look into this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: I will keep after the Minister of State on it, so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: The Minister of State said that he was "exploring the introduction of a reconstitution scheme". Can he tell me anything about it? When does he think the scheme will be finalised? Is he committing to people who replant now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: The Minister of State has now given a commitment that people will be entitled to the reconstitution scheme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: When will they know about that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: By the end of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: On ash dieback, the Government's support does not come close to what landowners need. Will the extra allocation of €5,000 be backdated to the time when trees fell in the 2012-13 period?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: I am asking about the allocation and wondering whether the trees down the Minister of State's way were very cheap or something.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: Why does the Minister of State think that is? Is the paperwork too complicated? Is there some other-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: Have all the people who applied for it got it? Were there any that needed to come back with more information?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: Everybody who applied for it got it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: Is there a deadline for applications for the extra payment?
- Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: I commend my colleagues in Sinn Féin, especially Senator Maria McCormack on her outstanding work in raising awareness about endometriosis. If we ever needed a clear-cut example of how women are treated as second class citizens-----