Results 241-260 of 753 for speaker:Pippa Hackett
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: It has.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: This deal is a commercial forestry deal but the requirements under the new forestry programme will include a minimum-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: The 3,500 ha to be planted under this will be subject to the programme as it stands. Up to 3,500 ha of new ground will be planted in the next five years. That will be subject to the requirements, which include a maximum of 65% spruce along with the 20% broadleaf and 15% for rewilding.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: The new land to be planted. The stuff it is buying is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: It has its existing estate, which it is changing as we go along. For example, where it has clear-felled in the Dublin Mountains, it is replanting some areas with broadleaf that were formerly-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: Coillte. Coillte's aim is the 50:50 ratio. Gresham House is separate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: Absolutely. Such forests are the unfortunate legacy we are left with but we can rectify that for the future.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: It is not on a site-by-site basis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: Any trees planted under any deal are subject to licence, which our Department issues. Those licences, as we have heard, are subject to significant requirements be they environmental, archaeological, historical or cultural. All of those things are factored in so it is not the case that a deal will involve being able to plant trees wherever you like. It will be subject to the same scrutiny...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: We have a €1.3 billion scheme that is aimed at farmers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: We have not deliberately done anything. We have money to support farmers to plant trees.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: No, it is the strategy out to 2030.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: The sector was in touch about it. One of its requests was that it would be given sight of that because the forestry sector, including foresters and companies, wanted an indication of what was coming in order that they could engage with farmers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: It would have known the state aid rules were in place since January anyway, but the timing of the publication of the proposed programme was, from my perspective and engagement, due to the sector. The forestry companies wanted to give some assurances to their farmers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: That is a question for Gresham House.
- Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: For disposal.
- Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: They are replanted. The trees that are cut down are replanted.
- Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: Deputy Carthy wrote today in the Daily Mailthat this fund could receive up to €2 billion in subsidies from Irish taxpayers. This is utterly untrue. Deputy Carthy and his party know that this particular deal represents less than 1% of the Government’s targets for new forests by 2050. Sinn Féin knows that the vast majority of the €1.3 billion forestry programme will...
- Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)
Pippa Hackett: What I will say about this motion, however, is that I welcome that we are discussing forestry and the role of Coillte more generally here this evening. In the context of Coillte’s further direction, it is important to mention first a key constraint on Coillte’s ability to engage in afforestation without private involvement, namely, EU state aid rules. A 2003 EU state aid...