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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

William Aird: Does the NTMA lend money to the approved housing bodies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

William Aird: The NTMA does lend to the Housing Finance Agency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

William Aird: Does it have any say then in the AHBs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

William Aird: Does Mr. O'Connor see a situation arising whereby there has been a decline in AHBs getting involved with local authorities? I am told it can be as a result of them not getting proper funding. Mr. O'Connor would be the person who would be giving the money to them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

William Aird: Does the NTMA lend money to them?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Jul 2025)

William Aird: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update of the timeline for the budget allocation and commencement of the new school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40185/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Jul 2025)

William Aird: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the timeline for the budget allocation and commencement of a new two-storey extension comprising four classrooms, specialist rooms, toilets, stores at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40184/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jul 2025)

William Aird: 551. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the status of the National Ophthalmology Programme as it relates to children residing in County Laois; if she is aware that these children are currently required to travel to a health centre in Athlone (details supplied) for outpatient services, a distance of approximately 80km; the steps being taken to establish paediatric...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

William Aird: The answer is the scheme is there. I have to let Deputy Newsome Drennan in now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

William Aird: First, I congratulate Deputy Healy-Rae on his appointment as Minister of State in the Department of agriculture. Today is about ash dieback. Many of the questions I had have been answered but I have a good few questions that were not. Am I allowed to ask a question directly to Mr. Dunne? Can I do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

William Aird: Through the Minister of State, I would like to ask Mr. Dunne this. If his parents planted say, 20, 30 or 40 acres of land with ash and 14 or 15 years later it got ash dieback, how much money would they have earned out of that? Quick question, quick answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

William Aird: If the Minister of State cannot answer it, I will move on to the next question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

William Aird: Ten even.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

William Aird: At the end of the day, they would have nothing now only a load of pulp. That is what the ash dieback has done to any of the trees that I see around me. I do not know the Minister of State can convince anybody that any money that was mentioned here today would satisfy them. There is no answer whatever for the poor unfortunate people who planted ash in good faith thinking they were doing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

William Aird: Sorry, I am going back now to what I want to talk about

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

William Aird: This is on forestry. I want the Minister of State, the Minister and the Department of the environment to sit down and look at some little case. The Minister of State has said “No” all day here-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

William Aird: Take trees on the side of the road. It costs anything up to €2,000 or €3,000 to remove a tree once you have closed down the road, put up the safety signs, given notice to the local authority and it comes out and looks at it and signs it off. It is impossible. I know a man with three trees dead. He has 11 acres of land and it just happens to be on the road. It will cost him...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

William Aird: I wanted to check that with the Minister of State. How can Ireland’s forestry licence system be updated to ensure on-time approvals while maintaining environmental standards? This is the one that I was getting back the whole time. It is a fair question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

William Aird: Ah, do not start.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

William Aird: No, no.