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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]

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

Michael Lowry: 366. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is on target to date to achieve the stated licensing output target of 4,500 licences; if not, he size of the delay in relation in achieving the target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27196/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 191. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1991 of 24 March 2021, if he regards the GLAS and afforestation schemes as complementary schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27083/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 192. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1991 of 24 March 2021, the number of participants in GLAS that afforested a part of their holding under the afforestation scheme in each year since the launch of the scheme in tabular form; the percentage of participants in the GLAS scheme that afforested a part of their farm under the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 193. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1991 of 24 March 2021, if he plans to have a mandatory professional forester involvement in the proposed planting of trees initiative outlined in his response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27085/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 194. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1990 and 1993 of 24 March 2021, the percentage of the pillar 1 and pillar 2 funding of the new CAP which must be disbursed on agri-environmental measures; the amount per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27086/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 195. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1990 and 1993 of 24 March 2021, the cost-benefit analysis and all other associated studies which led to the decision of his Department that the forestry programme will be delivered entirely separately from the CAP strategic plan and will be subject to new state aid rules rather than the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 200. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1990 and 1993 of 24 March 2021, the stakeholder organisations that have representation on both the CAP post-2020 consultative committee and the forestry policy group in tabular form; the overlap between the representatives on both the CAP post-2020 consultative committee and the forestry...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 201. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1990 and 1993 of 24 March 2021, the engagement with the forestry sector to date given that his Department is also engaging bilaterally with the forestry sector on the CAP in tabular form; the persons from his Department and from the forestry sector that have been involved in such bilateral...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 196. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1989 and 1992 of 24 March 2021 the declared internal changes, training and increased assistance to ecologists in the preparation of files, improved IT resources for ecologists and other system improvements will deliver in files per week and projected percentage increase of output; the date...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 197. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1995 of 24 March 2021, if he will confirm that his reply again only spoke to targets as opposed to the question asked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27090/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 198. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1995 of 24 March 2021, the percentage of the private sector licence requirement that has been issued in view of the fact that Coillte has already received nearly 100% of its licensing requirements for 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27091/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 199. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1995 of 24 March 2021, if it is the case that his Department does not know the number of licence and scheme approvals it must issue in order to deliver on Government targets and industry requirements; his views on whether he should task his senior officials to determine these key planning...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 May 2021)

Michael Lowry: 203. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1015 of 10 March 2021, the length of time it took his Department to approve the licences comprising this 4,500 hectares; the length of time from application to approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27098/21]