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Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: I welcome the Minister. This is important legislation, wherever we are coming from or going to. The issue relating to hedgerows is a major one in respect of which we have all been canvassed and there are very different views on the approach we need to take. The Minister's proposal of a two-year pilot programme is important and appropriate. In considering the hedgerow issue, we should...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: This has been a welcome debate. Issues have been made of hedgerow cutting and when it happens, whether it is August, September, October, November or December. Whenever hedge cutting happens, health and safety must be paramount, and it is up to the individual or the contractor involved to ensure his or her health and safety is paramount. If one is cutting hedgerows in the month of August,...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: -----are in place. Those issues need to be clarified. It is a health and safety issue regarding the people on the roads themselves, the people who have the buggies and the cars. These people need to be protected as well. I live in a place called Minane Bridge, which is a very small rural community. We do not have much down there. When people walk on the roads, it is helpful if they walk...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: I do not think it is. We do not have the luxury of footpaths or public lights. What we have is the luxury of a road if we are lucky. Sometimes we do not even have that luxury. This Bill is about two things: health and safety to make sure that young people, old people and people of my generation can walk and drive safely on roads, and, when it comes to the agricultural community and the...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: No.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: I also said we should move the Seanad to Cork.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: I wish to raise an issue happening in my part of the world, and probably the Cathaoirleach's part of the world. I refer to Digital Week in Skibbereen, which is one of the most unique ventures that happened last year and which is now happening again this year. Last year, 80 world-class speakers came to Skibbereen, a rural town in west Cork. It was an unbelievable experience. This year,...

Seanad: National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2015 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (10 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and compliment him for his grasp of the brief that he has achieved in the past few months. When one looks at the sport and tourism brief, Deputy Patrick O'Donovan really has a good grasp of it, and it is a credit to him. This legislation will be important because it lifts the cap on spending. It is probably the first step in ensuring that we can...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Alternative Energy Projects (15 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: I thank the Cathaoirleach for the opportunity to raise this very important issue. I call on the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coveney, to create national guidelines pertaining to solar farms to help local authorities deal with the applications that have come before them. There has been a major uptake in applications for solar farms throughout...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Alternative Energy Projects (15 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: I thank the Minister of State for this response, which has been helpful in clarifying the position. However, I am disappointed there is not a proposal in this respect. We should be addressing this issue but the Department is not considering such guidelines. We are working in a vacuum. These applications for planning permission are coming in off the back of a subsidy that will be...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: Senator Feighan has just stepped out of the Chamber but I congratulate him on the birth of his daughter. As the Cathaoirleach said, he will not qualify for paternity benefit as he is a Member of Seanad Éireann, which is the only anomaly in the Bill. A big issue has emerged in the past few days in the agricultural industry regarding live exports. Cork Marts has announced its decision...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: I welcome the Minister to the House. He is no stranger to the Seanad. Out of all of the Ministers he has been the most active in attending here over the past few months. This Bill is important and forms part of the Rebuilding Ireland document that the Minister proudly announced earlier in the year. It is a framework that will help us work towards sorting out an important issue for the...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: I have spoken at length on the Bill previously and will not spend that long on it today. We are here again debating the same issues in the same vein and it is a very positive debate. In many ways, we have teased out many of the issues that needed to be teased out. There were questions last week as to why the agricultural community wanted to be involved and that has been clarified with...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: I did not interrupt anyone else, to be fair.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: A two-year pilot programme where one is not going out there and tearing down the hedges by flailing them, but is only taking a trim, is an appropriate step to give the agricultural community a chance to prove what they are saying regarding the month of August and farming practices in respect of winter grain and reseeding. It is a very logical argument and I take it on board. I turn to...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: It is an issue and it would be disrespectful to those rural people to deny that. It is a big issue on the ground where people cannot walk on the roads safely.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: To say it is not an issue is absolutely ridiculous. It is a big issue. If one looks at the representations I have received over the last 13 years, they are in the tens of hundreds.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: The representations were from people who wanted the opportunity to cut these hedges in August but who did not have the ability to do so. To say it is a non-issue now is absolutely appalling. I was elected by those people.I encourage Senators to meet them and ask for their views because they will tell them the truth.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: The executive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of the UK Referendum on Membership of the EU on the Irish Agrifood and Fisheries Sectors: Teagasc (22 Nov 2016)

Tim Lombard: I am keen to follow the same train of thought as Deputy Cahill with regard to food inflation. During the week the chief executive of Tesco said that food inflation in the UK would be a major issue for next year because of sterling. The UK consumer will be significantly affected by Brexit. They will be paying more for product. That will be a key factor in where we go as a country. The UK...