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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Regarding funding, then, over the last five years, and having 22 students per academic, a part of the programme for Government is reducing the pupil-teacher ratio. Has this widened the ratio? How do things stand compared to five years ago?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I am conscious of time and I wish to raise the UCD Lyons Farm as well. On international students, then, is this as significant a factor as it is in other areas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I am sorry to interrupt, but I am nearly out of time. I wish to ask about the UCD Lyons Farm. I always feel that witnesses probably go away from here thinking we regard ourselves as experts on everything, but my view is that the UCD Lyons Farm should be the blueprint for the future of agriculture. This should be as much about carbon minimisation as anything else. Will Professor Monahan...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: How much does the cost of the plan amount to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I seek only a one-word answer. In case Dr. Butler's former career guidance teacher is looking in, if she was not the head of education in Teagasc, what would she have been? What did she want Dr. Butler to be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the speakers for coming in. In the early days of this Government - I do not even think we had a Government at the time - we were in the throes of a flood in 2020 and it was probably one of the first big issues we dealt with. We were dealing with Covid-19 at the time so all of our engagements then were virtual. It is unfortunate it has not been advanced much since. With regard to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I suppose it is significant. The Department briefing does not give an actual figure, but Mr. Silke reckons 14,000 ha between meadow and grazing land are affected in the Callows.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: If I do a back of a fag packet calculation on the 7,000 ha of meadow and apply the 25 ha, which is very arbitrary, and not everybody is going to have 25 ha, that would even suggest 466 farms. Therefore, the figure of 230 really is probably well off the figure Mr. Silke has.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Would Mr. Silke have a fear at the fact that letters are going out next week to the 230 farmers? Would he have a fear this is just concentrated in the epicentre of the flooding and that people on the periphery, who have been traditionally flooded but not to the same extent, are going to be excluded? Would that be a genuine fear of Mr Silke's at this stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: I suppose it does need to include everybody. If it is being done, it needs to be right. Otherwise, it will leave a lot of bitterness if people are left out. We will try to get some clarity on that. Mr. Ryan might expand on his point that he felt this was sacrificial or that there is that feeling among farmers. I appreciate it is psychologically very challenging if people are looking out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Is that Member a member of this committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: That is all right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: The definition of a callow is a strip of land that runs alongside the River Shannon. Would our guests consider that if I have callows on the River Suck then that should be part of the Shannon callows as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Am I correct to say that the likelihood is they are probably excluded, based on what has been announced?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: We will and we will follow up on that. On Bord na Móna, the organisation has clearly set out its views. Bord na Móna has more or less stated every time we have asked them about managing rivers, tributaries and drains going forward that it will do nothing with them so in all likelihood it is going to do nothing about the silt in the River Shannon either. Bord na Móna is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Agriculture Schemes (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will advise in relation to an NPWS farm plan application (details supplied). [48940/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Agriculture Schemes (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: 56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will advise in relation to an NPWS farm plan application (details supplied). [48941/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Agriculture Schemes (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will advise in relation to an NPWS farm plan application (details supplied). [48942/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Agriculture Schemes (8 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will advise in relation to an NPWS farm plan application (details supplied). [48943/23]