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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Coillte is awaiting an update but what is the Department telling it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: That has been said. What is the Department telling Coillte? We know there is engagement but where are we regarding state aid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Is that what the Department is telling Coillte?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: It is now March and this all affects planting. The timing is an issue. That is enough on that. I want to turn now to the Irish Strategic Forestry Fund. As has been confirmed, this involves a collaboration between Coillte and the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, which is state-owned. It also involves the NTMA and Gresham House. When did Coillte inform the Government of its plans...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: That is a direct response. I appreciate Ms Gray's directness. There is no ambiguity about it. Was there any informal discussion or an informal indication to a Minister or the Government that this was the route Coillte was pursuing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Was there any informal discussion on the Gresham House investment, on which a deal has been done? That is not to pass any judgment on the deal at this point. Did Coillte indicate informally to the Government or any member thereof that it was going to pursue this route?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Did Coillte get the impression it was very supportive of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: But they told us that after the event. I am not passing judgment on the Department or Coillte but just trying to establish the sequence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I get that point. Let me wrap up on the question. Formally, the notification was on 16 December 2022 but there were informal engagements, conversations or little chats to the effect that Coillte was doing something of this type. That is grand; I am not passing judgment on it. Can we move on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I got that point. I thank Ms Gray for it. Could the delegates tell members about the 2022 shareholder letter of expectation? Ms Gray was clearly fully aware of it. What is the current status of the dividend policy review? I understand there is to be such a review. It was set out in the 2022 shareholder letter of expectation. Can Ms Gray indicate when the review will happen? It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Ms Gray for her engagement and very concise answers, which I find very helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: With Gresham House?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Mother and Baby Homes (28 Feb 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister and acknowledge the enormous amount of work he has done in this area. The topic of my Commencement matter relates to the Institutional Burials Act 2022. The Minister will be aware that this Act provides a lawful basis for the excavation, exhumation and identification of remains, and their dignified reburial, from the site of the former mother and baby institutions in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Mother and Baby Homes (28 Feb 2023)

Victor Boyhan: That is no problem. We have it now. I thank the Minister for clarifying those points. The authorised director is going to happen, as the Minister confirmed. In his closing remarks, the Minister might touch on the independence from Government of this process and intervention. Work is under way on the advisory board and I understand from what the Minister said that members of families will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Mr. Logue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Victor Boyhan: There are two or three issues in respect of which I wish to follow up in the context of the witnesses' engagement here rather than what they submitted in their written statements. Ms Sheridan touched on the importance of data but she did not do so in great detail. There is a lot in it, however. One of the things that has echoed through the evidence given by professional planners and others...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Ms Sheridan makes an important point. She may wish to echo it in the further detailed submission to be made by the RIAI to the Department. It is an important point in the context of data and duplication. We need to hear more on it and tease it out further. I wish to raise several issues with Dr. Logue. He referred to the options of prescribed bodies and expanding that array of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I will direct my questions to the representatives from the RIAI. I will not rehash what has been said, but I think there is a strong case for a county plan and a county architect with statutory functions in order that managers and staff are not under the pressure. Anecdotally, I have heard of city and county managers putting pressure on or the staff feeling pressurised to deliver a result...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the representatives from the RIAI, and the IEN for their very detailed and comprehensive submissions which are exceptionally well-laid-out and get to the point. Being conscious of time, I will put a series of three questions to the IEN first. I thought these are concise enough, and deliberately so, and the witnesses might give a concise response if they can. Do they have concerns...