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Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: An Fochoiste um an Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030 agus Rudaí Gaolmhara: Éirí an Choimisinéara Teanga as a Phost: Díospóireacht leis an Aire Stáit (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ciallaíonn sé sin go bhfuil aidhm seo na straitéise briste glan. Cuireadh an aidhm seo - go mbeadh "Aire sinsearach .... ar a mbeidh lárfhreagracht maidir le cúrsaí Gaeilge fós ann" - sa straitéis ionas nach dtarlódh an méid atá tarlaithe. Tá an tAire Stáit ag rá nach bhfuil aon Aire Sinsearach le lárfhreagracht...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: An Fochoiste um an Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030 agus Rudaí Gaolmhara: Éirí an Choimisinéara Teanga as a Phost: Díospóireacht leis an Aire Stáit (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ba mhaith liom cur leis sin. Ar an gcéad dul síos muna bhfuil cóip den litir ag an Aire Stáit tá cóip agam anseo.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: An Fochoiste um an Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030 agus Rudaí Gaolmhara: Éirí an Choimisinéara Teanga as a Phost: Díospóireacht leis an Aire Stáit (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Go maith. Ta áthas orm é sin a chloisteáil. Tá cóip mar atá ag an Seanadóir Ó Clochartaigh agamsa freisin. Tá seo beagáinín scansúil. Tá páirteanna uimhir a haon, a dó agus a trí den dréacht teicniúil. Tagrann uimhir a ceathar do laghdú ar an méid cáipéisí a chaithfear a...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: An Fochoiste um an Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030 agus Rudaí Gaolmhara: Éirí an Choimisinéara Teanga as a Phost: Díospóireacht leis an Aire Stáit (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Dúirt an t-Aire Stáit ar ball: Is ar mo Roinn-se, an Roinn Ealaíon Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta, atá an fhreagracht uileghabhálach an straitéis a chomhordú agus a chur i bhfeidhm i gcomhair le réimse móra páirtithe leasmhara.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: An Fochoiste um an Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030 agus Rudaí Gaolmhara: Éirí an Choimisinéara Teanga as a Phost: Díospóireacht leis an Aire Stáit (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A Leas-Chathaoirligh, táimid anseo le cur i bhfeidhm na straitéise a phlé. Bheadh mise ag moladh go dtógfadh muid, leathanach ar leathanach, céim ar chéim é, go scrúdódh muid gach aon ní atá istigh sa straitéis agus go bpléifeadh muid an bhfuil an rud atá ann curtha i bhfeidhm nó nach bhfuil nó cén dul chun...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is no fine envisaged here, it merely relates to the clawing back of money. I am aware of the case of a person who went through everything with a fine-tooth comb. An ecological area was kept in a forest on their land as part of the overall agreement and now the Department is seeking to get money back in respect of that area. That is what really brought this matter to my attention.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It was because Fianna Fáil was in power in 1946.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are opposing the fact that the Statute of Limitations will not apply and that the Minister can seek to recover grants for up to 20 years. I know it will be argued that trees grow for 20 years etc. However, I have had farmers come in 12 or 13 years after the land was checked and a grant awarded only for the Department to claim it had changed the way it does its calculation of ecological...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We will fight it out again on the next Stage.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move amendment No. 94: In page 29, between lines 39 and 40, to insert the following:“(p) facilitating the development of a competitive timber industry and employment in rural Ireland; (q) promoting and facilitating the provision of a sufficient supply of sawlog at competitive prices to meet the requirements of the timber industry.”.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am totally opposed to the idea of having this registered as a burden on the land. It is expensive, cumbersome and unnecessary in my view. If there is a legal obligation to replant, then I do not see why it has to be a burden on someone's land.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This section opens a Pandora's box. It states the following: (1) The Minister may charge such fees as may be prescribed for the following:(a) an application for a licence, approval or registration, or (b) any other service provided under the relevant statutory provisions,and different fees may be charged for different classes of such licences, approvals, registrations or other services. (2)...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister of State keeps saying "I myself", but we are not legislating for the Minister of State. He knows that once the provision is there, sooner or later somebody will use it to raise a bit of cash. If I had the time, I would love to be able to trawl through all the Bills passed by the Oireachtas since the 1920s and count the number of times a provision like this was introduced. A...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I appreciate that.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Deputy Pringle and I are opposed to the idea of registering the requirement to replant a forest as a burden on people's property. I presume that the acceptance of amendment No. 90 means that the original section 20 will become section 21.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a standard process by which one measures trees.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It would also be fair to say that if one asked people in the countryside about hedgerows and the greatest change to same in the past 70 or 80 years, they would not point to hedgerows being cut down, but to their growing wild. Traditionally, farmers cut the hedges, folded them back onto themselves and made them bushy and thick. They did that by hand. It was every year's winter work and,...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is not true to say that most hedgerows are along roads. Most fields have hedgerows around their four sides, three of which are not normally along a road.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not sure that amendments Nos. 82 and 83 have the same intent. The amendment states that one can cut up to 15 cu. m on one's land but I want to exclude a constituent of parkland or wood pasture, including ancient heritage and veteran trees, on an agricultural holding. I am not sure whether that exclusion will be included in the Minister of State's version of the Bill, as it will be...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am talking about amendment No. 83.