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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (25 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 546. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will instruct his officials to organise information and training events on the existing ash dieback reconstitution and underplanting scheme for forest owners seriously impacted by both the ash dieback disease and the contents of circular 5 of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27705/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (25 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 547. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm his continued confidence and support for the existing ash dieback reconstitution and underplanting scheme; his views on whether the scheme as currently constituted allowing for the new rules in circular 5 of 2021 is fit for purpose; if it has his full support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27706/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (25 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 548. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of applications under the ash dieback reconstitution and underplanting scheme that have been approved since the launch of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27707/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (25 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 549. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the target for approval of applications by number and area under the existing ash dieback reconstitution and underplanting scheme before the end of December 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27708/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (25 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 550. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he sought a report from a qualified professional on the potential health and safety issues associated with harvesting and recreational activities close to or beside dead and dying ash, both plantations and roadside trees impacted by ash dieback; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27709/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (25 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 551. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current impact of ash dieback; the rate of spread across the country; and the position of his Department as to the viability of ash trees in forests and individual trees infected by ash dieback. [27710/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (25 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 552. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current information on the incidence of rot and decay in trees infected with ash dieback; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27711/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (25 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 553. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a Forest Service inspector or inspector of his Department has raised concerns over the practicality or operational feasibility or expressed any negative concerns to senior management within his Department on the existing ash dieback reconstitution and underplanting scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27712/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (25 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: Given the time I will not take the full seven minutes. I thank the participants for sharing their expertise and insight. Everything we have heard this morning highlights the magnitude and complexity of the problem. When it comes to cybersecurity it is quite obvious at this stage that Ireland left the front door and the back door open. We are now reacting to fix the damage. The damage is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (25 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: What is the timescale? How long will it take to rebuild this system and put up our defences?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (25 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: I am happy with that timescale, which is five to ten years, if one has everything in place.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 358. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is planned to exclude professional registered foresters from the scheme to plant trees along rivers and watercourses to act as carbon sinks and interceptors of nutrients currently being prepared by the Minister of State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27188/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 359. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is planned to get external expertise and registered foresters to assist his staff in developing the scheme to plant trees along rivers and watercourses to act as carbon sinks and interceptors of nutrients currently being prepared by the Minister of State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27189/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 360. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to circular 5 of 2021, clarification regarding ash dieback scheme and planning permission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27190/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 361. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department was not aware of the issues in relation to planning permission when developing and ultimately issuing the RUS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27191/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 362. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are possible mechanisms in the Forestry Act 2014 that take account of the fact that the ash crops are either dying or dead and as such are not subject to the rules as laid out in circular 5/2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27192/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 363. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to develop a process with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage that takes account of the fact that ash trees are either dead or dying and rotting and that the process and procedure as laid out in circular 5 of 2021 does not take account of this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27193/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 364. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that ash plantations subject to ash dieback, which are either dead or dying and rotting are now a very serious health and safety trap for owners, contractors and the public and the contents of circular 5 of 2021 in view of the performance of his Department in issuing approvals in the RUS...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 365. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to revisit the existing academically excellent but operationally nonsensical and impractical RUS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27195/21]