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Seanad: Ash Dieback Disease: Statements (29 Apr 2015)

Michael Comiskey: ...forestry plantation in my own county, Leitrim, which had been planted with imported trees. The trees on this site, and on ten other sites planted with the same batch of trees, were subsequently destroyed under the Department's supervision. Following this first finding, the Department carried out a major survey of ash and continues to survey for this disease in forestry plantations,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion with Teagasc, NARGC and Golden Eagle Trust (12 Feb 2013)

Michael Comiskey: ...be done on this. I know of a particular commonage where each farmer has 30 acres. Some farmers will put between 300 and 500 sheep in the area for a short term during the summer months, but this destroys the commonage which is very unfair to other farmers who want to manage it. When I was young a management committee was in place among the farmers to manage the commonage and one of our...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Nov 2012)

Michael Comiskey: ...friends and family returning. I wish to talk about the problem of ash tree dieback which was identified in County Leitrim ten or 12 days ago. I congratulate the Department for moving so quickly to destroy all those plants and in five or six other locations to ensure this disease would not spread. I call on the Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, to come to the House to discuss the problem...