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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking a question.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not making a statement.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister of State accept there is widespread and justified concern that displacement is going on? One example of this is what is happening at the Rhatigan site, where brick layers, after not being paid for five weeks, were given €100 per week for work for which they previously would have received €600 or €700.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this the type of job creation we are talking about?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was out on the picket line at the site to which I referred.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have spoken to them and they are not happy campers.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just wanted to throw in questions.

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would appreciate if we could get the list of all contracts between Coillte and other State agencies going back to 1989 as soon as it becomes available. The initial loan facility for Coillte, when it was established and as provided for in legislation, was €30 million. In 2009, this was increased to €400 million. Around that time there was a large deficit in Coillte’s...

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Coillte was helpful and informative. My questions are more directed at the Government’s policy and, as it is the main shareholder, to where it is driving Coillte. If Coillte cannot contribute to afforestation and increasing our forest cover, then it seems to me that it is being driven in the direction of providing industrialised wind turbines, for example. In 2009, when the loan...

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of all the contracts between Coillte and other State agencies and the total amount of funding from all State agencies transferred to Coillte since 1989; if he will provide any cost benefit analysis or reviews related to this State funding of Coillte; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35165/14]

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the question spells out, it is about supports and funding to Coillte since it was set up in 1989. The context for this question is that I favour public support and investment for a semi-State company engaged in forestry. After the meeting which the Minister kindly set up with Coillte for me last week, what came across clearly was Coillte's fairly bald statement that it is precluded,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there is no provision to provide funding in the proposed new forestry programme for the implementing of management plans for the extremely valuable and vulnerable 0.002% of ancient woodlands sites, most of which are NHAs and SACs; the further reason the new forestry programme fails to focus on these ancient woodland sites...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licence Application Numbers (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 225. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the list of felling licences issued after the February 2014 storms pertaining to Coillte woodlands of the 134 licences issued by the Forest Service in addition to the locations accompanied by the forestry inspectors' reports justifying the felling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35351/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 226. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide verification that the extraction methodology used in Gougane Barra is conducted manually using cabling (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35352/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licences Applications (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 227. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a licence was issued for Gougane Barra extraneous clear-felling for the mature Sitka spruce, lodgepole pine and western hemlock, which Coillte claimed were damaged by the storm in February 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35353/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licences Applications (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 228. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a licence was issued for the storm tree felling in Jenkinstown wood in County Kilkenny; if so, if he will provide the inspector's reports necessary for both public amenity woodlands felling licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35354/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 229. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there are no management plans in place for the extremely valuable and vulnerable 0.002% of ancient woodlands, some of which are in the care of the National Parks and Wildlife Service; if his Department or the Forest Service expressed any concern at this precarious situation regarding these most valuable land based...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 230. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the new forestry programme's failure to focus on ancient woodland sites regarding biodiversity, genetic material security, climate mitigation measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35356/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 231. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he was alerted by the Forest Service to the vulnerability of ancient woodland seed banks in terms of disease threats, in view of the fact that a management plan in place it is very difficult to ensure the security of the sites as well as ability to control any potential outbreaks; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Appointments to State Boards (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 232. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views that no conflict of interest has arisen with the appointment by Coillte of the former Secretary General of his Department with responsibility for forestry to its board on his retirement in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35358/14]