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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: I just want to be concise. Today, the Department is not accepting planting licences for 2023.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: Forget about the news; I am asking the questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: I accept that but I am asking the questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: So the answer is "No". The Minister is not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: Let us be clear and concise. No new planting applications can be put in place until the strategy is in place.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: I am asking the questions now. There is a different audience here today. The public are listening in. We are doing our parliamentary work. All I am asking if for a simple "Yes" or "No" answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: That is not the question I asked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: "No".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: Very simple.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister and Minister of State for coming before us. It has been a good debate. Clearly everyone in this room is passionate about forestry, which shines through. I also thank the Minister's officials for coming here and for being supportive of the questioning process. The Minister and Minister of State indicated that they had not published the policy strategy. I do not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: I know all that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: So the Department thinks it will be published in two or three months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: This is the strategy for 2023.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: That is grand. What about general support for the development of a forestry development agency?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: Let us look at it. That is okay. The Minister is not ruling it out. What about the Coillte financial dividends to the State?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: It would be helpful to the committee if we could have that information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: Would the Department be able to put that into a concise Excel file listing details for the past few years? It would be helpful to the committee. Can I make that ask? Mr. Colm Hayes:We can do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: That is fantastic. What about the pre-submission to the Commission on state aid? The Department can confirm that it can circulate that to the committee for me as a document?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: With the committee - let us have it as a committee document. What about SEEFA? I would like to think that the Minister could say here today that SEEFA is a credible and professional organisation and that at some stage, he might consider meeting it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister and the Chair.