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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: 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.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Work Permits (24 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Work Permits (24 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: I thank Senator McGahon. Before the Minister of State replies, I would like to be very much associated with the words of congratulations to him. We all knew his capabilities and abilities when he served in this House and he chaired the Brexit committee. His portfolio is very suited to his skill set and we wish him well.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: I wish the Cathaoirleach well as he takes up office. I also wish the Leader, Senator Chambers, well. We have already had her as Leader for parts of the last while. I wish them both well. They will be a formidable team and we are lucky and privileged in the Seanad to have people of their calibre. I genuinely say that and I genuinely mean that. I want to raise the issue of thalidomide....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: I welcome Mr. Mahon, Mr. Brannigan and the chief executive of Mayo County Council and the director of housing to the meeting. I will stick to pretty short concise questions based on their submissions before us today. Rather than having a load of questions and answers, I will be concise and I hope the witnesses will be able to be concise in their replies. I will touch on Longford first. In...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: The 50 units. We are talking about an affordable housing scheme, the market not having the capacity to deliver and applications being granted permission with the potential for 50 Part V houses. They have all stalled and the knock-on effect is a negative one. I thank Mr. Mahon for sharing that with us. He went on to say that Longford County Council expects to appoint a town regeneration...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)
Victor Boyhan: So Mr. Mahon can see that being in place in the next two to three months.