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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Joe Flaherty: It would probably be fair to say that we very much need rightsizing. Many older people have come to me who live in large three or four-bedroom houses that are way too large for them, but unfortunately they are houses they have built, financed themselves and paid off their mortgages on. If they go to the local authority, they are not deemed eligible for social housing supports because they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I thank Ms Loughran.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Joe Flaherty: No.

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Joe Flaherty: At the outset, I wish to state that the spate of burning buildings nationwide in response to plans to use these buildings for emergency accommodation, or even the mere suggestion or rumours suggesting that they will be used for emergency accommodation, is repulsive and reprehensible. I say this as a TD who grew up in a village where criminals attempted to burn one such building. There is no...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Feb 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on plans for development of Longford Westmeath ETB further education campus in Longford town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8777/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Feb 2024)

Joe Flaherty: The Tánaiste will be aware that a verdict of medical misadventure was recorded at the inquest into the death of young Bryonny Sainsbury who suffered a catalogue of failures while being treated at Mullingar hospital. At the two-day inquest the family heard harrowing details of how their daughter died. A combination of failures and shortcomings in her care led to a death that was...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I move amendment No. 99: In page 51, lines 10 to 12, to delete from “brought” in line 10 down to and including “declaration” in line 12.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the witnesses from the three organisations for coming before the committee today. We will, to a degree, be at loggerheads in that the vast majority of us here come from agricultural backgrounds, are steadfast in our support for the farming community and recognise the huge contribution farming has made to this country in the context of the livelihoods and education of so many people....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Reference was made to planning for no derogation. Is Dr. McGoff of the view that there should not be a derogation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I do not know whether farmers would be surprised or happy, but they will agree that they are being asked to jump through a growing number of environmental hoops at their own cost. Dr. McGoff is suggesting that the Department should be asked to provide an evidence base to demonstrate that the measures being put in place under the nitrates action programme will be sufficient for reducing the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Joe Flaherty: What Dr. McGoff has to say is interesting in the context of the measures farmers are taking. They may believe they are doing something to mitigate against the impact of nitrogen, but what they are doing is having an impact on the other two influencers. This is probably a worst-case scenario for An Taisce, but it is a hypothetical question: if Dr. McGoff was not with An Taisce but rather...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Joe Flaherty: -----for everything to run in tandem. Hypothetically, let us say we have our derogation and it stays as it is. What measures would Dr. McGoff put in place to reduce the impact?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Dr. McGoff is giving a good political answer, but are there specific measures that we should be taking?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Joe Flaherty: On the point about staffing for inspections, Dr. McGoff works in this field. It is her area of expertise. Are there people there to fill those roles?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Joe Flaherty: In the context of graduates coming out of the colleges at the moment, will there be people to fill those roles?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I am from Longford, which is a county with no coastline, but I appreciate all the work that is done by Coastwatch. I am fiercely defensive about the nitrates derogation. I accept the Coastwatch view that it does not find any favour with it. Again, in the hypothetical scenario that we have to live with it, what measures should we be taking?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Joe Flaherty: On the point about it being over-prescriptive and about the control of land, there is an administrative burden for farmers. Is there an alternative to that? We are searching for an alternative to the way that we are doing it at the moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I am conscious of the time. Where was that EIP on which you worked?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I just have a final for Mr. Moore of BirdWatch Ireland. It relates to the project on which he worked. It is interesting to hear the experience of a real farmer here. He is also a farmer for nature campaigner. In relation to the stubble issue, is there an economic impact for farmers in what they prefer to do as opposed to what they are being told to do?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Finally, in regard to the shallow cultivated fields, if we were not doing that, would there be an impact on crop yields and crop value?