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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (28 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber and it is good to have him here. I am looking for an update in regard to a primary school in my part of the world. Summercove national school is a wonderful school that has such potential but it has literally been at the bottom of the list for the past 20 years. We have been trying to make sure that it can get the appropriate new build that it...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (28 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: I am disappointed with the response, which is almost verbatim the response I received in the previous Commencement debate. Six months later, the only thing that has happened is that the price of construction has gone up by perhaps 35%. The cost of the majority of projects has gone through the roof. I was speaking to a major contractor with regard to concrete blocks yesterday, and he said...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Planning Issues (28 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: Before the Minister of State responds, I welcome our visitors in the Gallery. They are more than welcome. I call the Minister of State.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: Yesterday evening I took the unusual course of action of going back home to Cork to attend an event. I went back to Dunmanway at 5 o'clock yesterday evening. There was a commemoration of an event that happened 100 years ago, when 13 Protestants were shot in a 24-hour period in Dunmanway. Hundreds were relocated out of the area. It was an unfortunate and ugly part of Irish history. It is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: It was a sensitive issue for the people of Dunmanway, in particular, and the entire Bandon Valley area. We had families come from the North and the UK to attend the event. Their loved ones were tragically shot 100 years ago in that 48-hour period. It brings home that this is about reconciliation, trying to move forward and to acknowledge exactly what happened. It was not all triumphalism...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: I compliment the presentation that has been received. It is really powerful and frightening. What are the biosecurity implications of importing timber to Ireland? The witnesses mentioned ash dieback and a beetle being brought in that affected the ash tree. Are the witnesses fearful that the biosecurity currently in the ports, with the imported timber, will have an implication regarding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: Regarding the 8,000 ha, which is in the programme for Government, and Senator Paul Daly also mentioned this topic, can the Minister of State give me her view and timeline for when she believes we will reach the 8,000 ha? It is a principle of the programme for Government, which is nearly two years old at this stage. Taking into consideration that the Taoiseach will probably change in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: What about the 8,000 ha ambition of the Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: It is in the programme for Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: In the programme for Government we claim we will get 8,000 ha. Will we reach that by the end of the Government's term?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: Could the Minister of State also provide the committee with the figures for the import of roundwood for the past five years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: Following on from Deputy Sherlock's wonderful contribution, and the filing system since 2018, I have mentioned timelines and the lack of them in the context of files. I spoke to a senior planner from a local authority some time ago and I went through what actually happens in that context. The local authorities' files are broken into eight parts. They do environmental impact studies and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: I welcome the contribution by the IFA. I also welcome its statement and proposal. It is a unique proposal to impose a levy on the industry. The IFA is not reinventing the wheel. This has happened in other industries, particularly in the insurance industry. Over a period, we have seen different levies put on the insurance industry to help it get over issues and, in time, the industry...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: I welcome the representatives from MII and acknowledge their contribution to this important debate. Will they elaborate on where they believe the market stands? The Chairperson mentioned that. Where do they believe the market will go in the next six or eight months? I realise that this is a crystal-ball matter to some degree. They might also elaborate on how efficient the pig industry is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: On that issue of the figure, it varies according to whom one talks. How could we get a definitive figure for how many fixed milk price contracts are in the movement? Can the witnesses provide that information or who can?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: How could we get a definitive figure? Who has it? Do we need to write to every individual co-operative or can Mr. Flanagan provide it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: It would be important so we could put a perspective on the problem, if it is a problem. Without having that figure, we are speculating on the basis of who called to my door last Saturday morning. The figure could be very appropriate. If ICOS could gather that information and forward it to the secretariat, it might be a helpful step forward in our deliberations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: That is no problem. The Chair is more than welcome to interrupt me at times. Perhaps the witnesses might explain the system all the way through. How this works is that Ornua would forward sell a product to a supplier. It would then purchase that from a co-operative movement or a limited company milk supplier, and it would have its fixed margin in between. The co-operative movement or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: The point I was getting to is that while the customer base and co-operative had the fixed price for inputs and outputs, was there a proposal given for a three-year fixed price for inputs given to farmers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: What about with the contracts we are dealing with now? Was there any fixed price for the three-year period?