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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Noel Rock: The Deputy will have time in the follow-up round. He has used up his allocated five minutes in his opening round of questioning. I call Senator Boyhan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Noel Rock: The Senator has one minute left.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Noel Rock: I call Senator Kelleher and I welcome her to the committee again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Noel Rock: We can proceed to a second round of questioning and I propose a limit of two minutes for each speaker in the interest of fairness, if that suits everybody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Noel Rock: Senator Boyhan asked his seven question in two minutes. That is time well kept.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Noel Rock: I thank the Minister. Our final questioner is Deputy O'Brien.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Noel Rock: I thank the Minister, Deputy Murphy, and his officials for attending today and engaging with the committee. I thank the members for their questions and understanding. I look forward to more fruitful engagement with the Minister in the future. From my perspective, I look forward to chairing a productive, purposeful and positive committee. We are off on the right foot in any event. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reviews (17 Sep 2019)

Noel Rock: 428. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure there are no further delays by the HSE in reviewing blood sugar monitoring technology such as the FreeStyle Libre device; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37479/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Advisory Council (17 Sep 2019)

Noel Rock: 498. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has read the third Climate Change Advisory Council annual review (details supplied); the actions that will be implemented to address the concerns raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37480/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Advisory Council (17 Sep 2019)

Noel Rock: 500. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount by which the national cattle herd must be cut to reach emission reduction targets; if this is a policy option under consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37483/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (17 Sep 2019)

Noel Rock: 499. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the assertion being expressed by Bord Bia that farming systems here are very sustainable mainly based on grazed grass; the reason agricultural emissions are rising if that is the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37482/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Environmental Efficiency Scheme Pilot (17 Sep 2019)

Noel Rock: 501. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which the beef environment efficiency pilot scheme is compatible with recommendations of the report from the Climate Change Advisory Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37484/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Establishment (17 Sep 2019)

Noel Rock: 502. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he has made much of the success of GLAS participations levels (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37485/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Policy (17 Sep 2019)

Noel Rock: 503. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his planned policy action to achieve the Climate Action Plan 2019 target for annual afforestation rates of 6,500 hectares by 2025, increasing to 10,000 hectares by 2030 in view of recent trends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37486/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Advisory Council (17 Sep 2019)

Noel Rock: 547. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the report of third Climate Change Advisory Council annual review on climate change addressed concerns that emissions in Irish agriculture have steadily increased by 14% since 2011; the amount spent to date buying credits; the level of financial provision in the budget for buying carbon credits in 2019 and 2020;...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (17 Sep 2019)

Noel Rock: 548. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which he plans to deal with carbon storage rather than peatland emissions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37487/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Surveys (6 Sep 2019)

Noel Rock: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide historic data held by his Department to provide comparative reference points (details supplied). [35360/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Noel Rock: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. I thank the governance review group for its report and all the work it has done on this to date. To pick up on a point made by Mr. Horan on the flow of events, he expects the AGM to be convened and the governance structures to be voted upon, after which the AGM will be adjourned pending the presentation of the accounts. To use Mr. Horan's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Noel Rock: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Noel Rock: If I may intervene, once these decisions are made, for example, a decision on the new president of the FAI, they tend to last. I am not sure if it is right or proper for this to be done in a vacuum and in the absence of vital information that is pertinent to the good governance of an organisation. I do not know if Mr. Treacy has a view on this but it seems to me that draft accounts should...