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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: My final question is in respect of the dairy farms, as they are a very specific type of farm. Have there been any efforts - I am sure some have been made - globally which Teagasc may have seen where there has been a co-operative effort by dairy farms to reach that scenario, which would be a utopian one for us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Is there anything similar globally to the Irish utopian example where something like that has been done with dairy farmers or where they in the process of doing this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank our witnesses very much.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister of State for his work on this Bill to date. The Bill is very welcome but it has caused a great deal of concern among small business owners. We are all aware well aware that the bulk of businesses are small, owner-operated businesses. This will pose an additional headache for them while at the same time they recognise that the Bill and the statutory right to sick leave...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: This is important legislation. We have been an outlier in this area for too long, so it is important that we get this right. A review process has been built into this and all other legislation. We will learn from this one's review process as the situation involves. As Deputy Shanahan said, the overwhelming concern being raised by small businesses – most of them are micro...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I agree with several of the speakers, including the Minister of State, that this Bill is very much about balance. There has to be balance in this. I remember my late mother telling me that if I wanted to find out how popular I was, I should go into politics or open a business. I would sooner be in politics because it is very tough trying to run a business at the minute. We have to accept...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: That is probably comes down to the next question. This is like the leaving certificate again for Dr. Upton. Moving on to the next point, we will probably need to marry up the whole process of educating farmers to go solar, together with everything that we are looking at so far in respect of CAP reform. Are we are not looking at a model in which farmers are directly rewarded for an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank all the witnesses for coming in, all of whom have been hugely informative. I have a couple of, hopefully, short questions and they can come back to me at the end with the answers. On the zero-carbon initiative, obviously we were aspiring to it at every level in construction. This question is probably for Ms Phelan. On the deep retrofit that is being done across the local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Before we move on, perhaps the Green Building Council can give an insight into the pre-demolition audits, whether anybody collates those figures and how many have been requested.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Does anybody? Ms Phelan is probably not able to answer this. Does any agency or Department collate those figures on how many have been requested?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: There is no central point. The Department would have to write out to each local authority planning department and ask them how many of these have been requested.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: In summary, at the minute we could produce 6,000 modular units per annum and Mr. O’Colmain is seeing indications that can scale up to 10,000. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I apologise for interrupting. If there is any time, could we come back to Mr. O'Connor and the forestry question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Yes, the OPW's level of engagement with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine specifically in the area of forestry licensing. Has Mr. O'Connor given the Department the very coherent feedback he has given us on how the process could be streamlined? Is it a one-way or two-way engagement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Mr. O'Connor has talked himself into an appearance at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I will tease out matters a little further with the representatives of Enterprise Ireland. There is a considerable opportunity when it comes to off-site construction. We are traditionally held as a nation of builders, particularly in rural Ireland. Longford is a case in point. Mr. O'Colmain said he visited Framespace Solutions. Porteus and Procon are also based in Longford. There are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Unions (28 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 30. To ask the Minister for Finance the initiatives that he is taking to expand the credit union sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20525/22]