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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: In terms of the requirement for a licence for thinning, that is a fair point. I will discuss that with the Minister in response to what is required. As I said earlier, we are looking at measures that might facilitate low-level planting and low-volume planting without having the same bureaucratic necessity that is currently there.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: The Minister, Deputy McConalogue, and the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, are looking at that and whether amendments can be brought forward to facilitate that on farmland as well. I am very impatient and intolerant of this whole area because Ireland is a place where we can and should be growing far more trees than we are growing. Doing so creates a carbon sink, ultimately. It is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: I think you are wrong.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: Through the Chair, it is an extraordinarily anti-enterprise strategy that would deny Irish companies the opportunity to export such goods and services to Canada and generate jobs at home in so doing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: From an enterprise perspective, the level of opposition to CETA borders on the illiterate at times.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: The Opposition needs to be called out from time to time on its anti-enterprise strategies.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: I did. What I meant by that was that even though the subject matter or the title of the essay might change, you would still write a very relevant essay.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: That is the start date but, as Deputies know, all the environmental impact assessments and all the preliminary work have started already. Major work has already gone into MetroLink and we have to get it ready for planning. As public representatives, the most effective thing we can do is to collectively get behind it when it gets into the planning process. That will be challenging because...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: It is equally important to point out that under the strategy published yesterday, and Deputy Kelly raised the point about emissions and so on, implementation of the full measures will reduce transport emissions in the greater Dublin area by 69%. This is very significant because further investment in DART and Luas, which are already fully electric, is how that reduction will happen. It will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: Deputy McDonald raised the issue of school transport in respect of Carrigaline Community Special School. It was a very good announcement and decision that we, together with the ETB, got that school up and running so quickly, which was necessary. The ETB and Bus Éireann should ensure there is proper school transport. I will engage with the Minister and the parties involved in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 16 to 22, inclusive, together. Issues relevant to agriculture are discussed, as required, at a number of Cabinet committees, including the Cabinet Committee on Economic Recovery and Investment, which last met on 30 September and will next meet on 22 November, and the Cabinet Committee on Environment and Climate Change, which last met on 3 November 2021. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 16 to 22, inclusive, together. Issues relevant to agriculture are discussed, as required, at a number of Cabinet committees, including the Cabinet Committee on Economic Recovery and Investment, which last met on 30 September and will next meet on 22 November, and the Cabinet Committee on Environment and Climate Change, which last met on 3 November 2021. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 7 to 15, inclusive, together. There is no dedicated Cabinet committee dealing with transport; rather transport-related matters are discussed in a number of Cabinet committees as appropriate. This occurs most usually at the Cabinet Committee on Economic Recovery and Investment which last met on 30 September and is due to meet on 22 November and at the Cabinet...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: First of all, earlier this afternoon I dealt with issues pertaining to the NTA and the strategy. I again have to agree absolutely with Deputy Devlin. It has been completely and deliberately spun in a different direction by Deputies; for what reason I do not know. The three key priorities are BusConnects, DART+ and MetroLink. All three of those key projects in the national development...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: It is costing billions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: I thank all the Deputies for their helpful suggestions and perspectives. Deputies Kelly and Haughey referred to my remarks last week on the protocol, which still stand. We have been here before. The meeting we had in May was comprehensive and lengthy. We had subsequent meetings with the European Commission. In the autumn the situation was on a good track with the European Commission...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: Ministerial engagements with counterparts are happening but the opportunities will be taken in the context of those engagements to raise those issues and to point up the primacy of continuing dialogue between the European Union and the United Kingdom.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: On legacy, if I may say, the British-Irish Intergovernmental Council is still considering this. We met again on 24 June. Our Government met the British Government and the Northern parties in a process of intensive engagement. I raised this with the British Prime Minister. They are in no doubt as to our position on this. The British Government will have had a good hearing from all the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: I did not get a chance to reply to Deputy Boyd Barrett's question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: I never doubted the Deputy's ingenuity to get his point of view across no matter what the context is. The Deputy must have done a good leaving certificate.