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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Agriculture Supports (22 Jan 2024)

Pippa Hackett: Businesses are the same, whether it is a farming business or another business. It is not sustainable to keep compensation measures going.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Library (22 Jan 2024)

Pippa Hackett: I thank Senator Warfield for raising this Commencement matter. I am here on behalf of the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Deputy Martin. I will provide an overview on the establishment of a digital legal deposit for Irish web archiving and an associated timeline. Legal deposit legislation is an important instrument in national cultural policy. It is relied...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Library (22 Jan 2024)

Pippa Hackett: The Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media has been working closely with the National Library on establishing the deposit scheme to serve as a web archive for the .ie domain. This process requires consultation with all the relevant stakeholders and consideration of aspects of intellectual property and data protection. A draft report on the feasibility of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Conservation (22 Jan 2024)

Pippa Hackett: I thank the Senator. I am here to answer on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications. The climate action plan, as outlined by the Senator, and the national retrofit plan set ambitious targets to retrofit the equivalent of 500,000 homes to a building energy rating of B2 or cost optimal and the installation of 400,000 heat pumps in existing homes to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Conservation (22 Jan 2024)

Pippa Hackett: I thank the Senator. I listened with interest to both her concerns and the points she raised. There are challenges when it comes to apartment blocks and how the Department deals with them. It is eager to iron out some of these difficulties and to understand how best it can move matters forward. The project being supported at the EU level will in some ways help to iron out a number of...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Pippa Hackett: I will share my time with Senator Garvey. Before I begin, I would also like to pay tribute to Senator David Norris as he retires from political life. I did not have an opportunity earlier. I pay particular tribute to his work to advance LGBT+ rights in Ireland despite the great personal cost. As the first openly gay person elected to public office, he smashed a glass ceiling so that...

Seanad: Hypothermia Scalp Cooling Therapy: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Pippa Hackett: I am here to support my colleagues with the motion. Everyone can relate to what it means to people. Pretty much everyone in the country has been touched by cancer or had a close friend or family member touched by it. My mother went through this. She had shortish hair at one stage and it was not so bad losing it. We were younger at the time - I was in my late teens or early 20s - but it...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Beef Sector (7 Dec 2023)

Pippa Hackett: I thank the Senator for raising this issue. I am answering this on behalf of the Minister, Deputy McConalogue. The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation, ICBF, is the body approved in Ireland in accordance with the relevant EU legislation to conduct testing, genetic evaluations and publication of breeding values for dairy and beef cattle. As part of its remit, the ICBF recently updated its beef...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Beef Sector (7 Dec 2023)

Pippa Hackett: I accept there are challenges for some farmers with this. There are mitigating pieces in there that may help iron out some of the issues. Ultimately, the purpose of this and the changes in the indexes are, maybe more in the longer term, to support farmers to breed animals that are more productive and that are more profitable. In this day, profitability on farms is probably the most...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (26 Oct 2023)

Pippa Hackett: I thank Deputy Smith for the question. It is an important aspect and something many people want to understand. The Deputy will probably be aware that the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, is responsible for the reporting of emissions and removals associated with land use activities on an annual basis to the EU and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (26 Oct 2023)

Pippa Hackett: I completely agree with what the Deputy is saying. Alongside the work that is being done on hedgerows, Teagasc is also doing work on soil carbon and the effects of the losses and sequestration there. Mapping is important but I certainly believe with regard to public spaces, that is perhaps where the mapping aspect will come in. We identify those areas where there are trees in public...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (26 Oct 2023)

Pippa Hackett: I do not have to hand what collaborations are ongoing but I am sure that we wholly engage with international research, particularly within forestry. The Deputy will be aware that we have a challenge now that our forestry estate will become no longer a sink of carbon and that is one of the challenges we face going forward, which is in order to ramp up the planting of trees now in the next...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Oct 2023)

Pippa Hackett: I thank the Deputy for the question. As she and maybe many Members of the House will be aware, social farming provides a planned outcome-focused support placement for people on a farm using the natural assets of the people, the place, the activities and the community to support a person to achieve some of his or her chosen goals. It has been shown to provide benefits to participants such as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Oct 2023)

Pippa Hackett: I thank the Deputy. As she outlines, social farming is continuing to grow. It certainly is growing year on year and its reach is far, and very much into the lives of many people for their enrichment and that whole connection with people. The social farming network funded by the Department is still in development. We are at a stage of growth. It requires substantial support. Certainly,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Oct 2023)

Pippa Hackett: I thank the Deputies. It is clear everyone places a huge value on the role social farming plays. Indeed, I have had the opportunity to visit social farms in Kerry, Mayo and, most recently, County Laois. The last is a new social farm. It is great to see the spread and the growth. What is also great to see is the value we can place on it because we have seen it in action for a time and the...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Pippa Hackett: This is a budget focused on the environment, both in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and across Government. Since this Government took office in 2020 we have made huge strides in the organic sector. I am further backing this with funding of €57 million for organic farmers in 2024, which is more than 50% higher than the provision for organic farming in last year's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Pippa Hackett: I thank the Minister and I thank the members of the committee for this invitation today. I am very keen to discuss the strategy and, most importantly, and of immediate significance, is the new forestry programme. As the Minister mentioned, it has been a very long process to arrive at a new vision, strategy and forestry programme for Ireland. It involved extensive public and stakeholder...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Pippa Hackett: I will deal with those first and then we can catch up with the rest later. I thank the Chairman for his welcome of the programme. We all share the hope that the programme will deliver what it needs to deliver. While more land is now not eligible to plant, there still is a considerable amount of land that is eligible to be planted on. Farmers can engage with foresters and Teagasc...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Pippa Hackett: I am disappointed that the Deputy is disappointed. It is a time for a lot of optimism in forestry. We have dealt with all the issues of the past. We cleared the appeals backlog. We cleared the backlog in forestry licences. We increased resources and the functionality of the Department. We have a new programme that is ready to roll. We have a system ready to deliver and we have many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Pippa Hackett: Absolutely.