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Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I am joking. That is fine.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I move amendment No. 10: In page 11, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(2) The regulator shall collate the costs associated with the production of different agricultural and food products in order to determine a cost-of-production, and publish reports on such on an annual basis.”.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I move amendment No. 9: In page 10, line 9, to delete “regulator” and substitute “rialálaí”. This amendment was discussed on Committee Stage and I am bringing it forward again. It addresses a concern that has been raised by the Joint Committee on the Irish Language, Gaeltacht and the Irish-speaking Community about the need to put into practice the...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I have a comment specifically on the initial point I made, which was discussed on Committee Stage. The Minister's issue was that the term "food stuffs" was too broad and that it would not be possible to look at the costs of all produce. We accept that. Hence, we have changed it to "agriculture and food products", which are defined in the Bill as a specific and precise list. This limits...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I also want to raise the importance of including in the legislation the cost of production to the primary producer. I know the Minister took issue with the term "foodstuffs" when my colleague, Deputy Carthy discussed this with him on Committee Stage. He will see from our amendment on Report Stage that we have changed that to "agricultural and food products" to try to make it more specific...

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I also welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion. As someone who has grown up in a rural community, who still lives in a rural community and who would live nowhere else in the world, I know the importance of proper planning and getting planning right for our rural communities. As my colleague Deputy Ó Broin said, the housing crisis is not unique to our urban areas and larger...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I raise the case of Robert Pether, which I have previously raised in this House. Mr. Pether has now spent two years in a Baghdad prison after being imprisoned following a dispute between his employer and the Iraqi Government. In March last year, the United Nations working group on arbitrary detention released a report on his detention. The group found it to be in breach of international...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)

Claire Kerrane: Yesterday, young people from across Ireland, who are involved in Macra na Feirme, began a 14-hour walk to Government Buildings from Athy. They are taking a stand for rural Ireland. For many of us born and raised there, there is nowhere else we would rather live. In fact, there is nowhere else we see our futures. Macra, in its campaign, is raising eight key issues around access to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (25 Apr 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 56. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the roll-out of the town centre first policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19347/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (25 Apr 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 54. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the forthcoming islands strategy; when the strategy will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19545/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget Process (25 Apr 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 52. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on how her Department is implementing the published guidelines on rural proofing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19544/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (20 Apr 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 87. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what measures his Department is taking to address forestry felling licensing backlogs on a longer-term basis; if he has given consideration to extending current two-year licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18494/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (20 Apr 2023)

Claire Kerrane: What long-term measures and proposals are in place to avoid a reoccurrence of the felling licence backlogs we saw previously? Why have some farmers and forestry owners been given two-year rather than ten-year licences?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (20 Apr 2023)

Claire Kerrane: What are the average turnaround times for felling licences applications? How long are applicants waiting to get those licences approved? On the wider issue of licences, the Minister of State referenced the fact that the new forestry programme has not yet been approved. I ask her to update the House in that regard. I welcome her remarks on licensing and publishing something in that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (20 Apr 2023)

Claire Kerrane: The Minister of State stated that applicants would not necessarily be given a two-year felling licence unless they intended to fell within those two years but I have been contacted by applicants who do not intend to fell within two years, yet were given a two-year licence. That needs to be considered. The standard licence is for ten years. It is important that be in place and that farmers...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (20 Apr 2023)

Claire Kerrane: It is really important that we put the details of how this is going to work out there. Geotagging, photos and apps for uploading photographs will be a minefield for a certain percentage of farmers. I understand the texts will go out to farmers from June. In some cases, farmers will get a text message from the Department to say they are in the red. Then they will have to go about getting...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (20 Apr 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I understand with the satellite mapping and the changes that are coming in that there will be an element of wait and see. It will be a new system for farmers and some will find it difficult in the context of the level of technology that is coming into farming anyway. Uploading photographs and all that is going to pose problems for some farmers. That is one element. Second and most...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (20 Apr 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 83. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline how his Department will operate the announced satellite inspections for the basic income support for sustainability and areas of natural constraint schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18628/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (20 Apr 2023)

Claire Kerrane: We know there are numerous changes coming to farm schemes this year. One of them, which has been described as the biggest one by the Minister's Department, is the changes to the satellite inspections and how that will work with the new mandatory area monitoring system. Might the Minister be able to tell us a little more about how he sees that working and, particularly, the impact it will...