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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Apr 2024)

Pippa Hackett: ...could see the countryside, and in doing so, Tony said, they cut down everything in sight: plum trees, crab trees, cherry trees and the hawthorn. Nature planted those fruit trees, he said, and man destroyed them.Unfortunately, Tony's account, while sad, is a reality we must own up to. By "we", I mean policymakers. For decades, we have been encouraging, training and incentivising farmers...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Pippa Hackett: ...is an utterly regrettable poisoning of the debate which has been sliding in this direction for some time, ably added and abetted by some Members of the Oireachtas who say that my party's aim is to destroy agriculture. To them, I say, "Grow up." This is a culture war being waged for political and electoral gain and it must stop. If we cannot restore nature through agriculture, we will...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)

Pippa Hackett: ...proudly with the wildlife crowd and I am asking them today to keep flexing those muscles and fighting for the preservation of nature and to keep calling out unacceptable behaviour where people are proudly destroying habitats. I also plead with those who think calling for improvements in air quality or habitat preservation is some form of an attack on them to think deeply about...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (8 Feb 2022)

Pippa Hackett: ...planted since 2018, so we would be on rather shaky ground. Hopefully, as we kick in, we will reverse that and be in a more positive situation. Plenty of hedges and habitats continue to be removed and destroyed, even as we speak. On the timelines, we hope the fur farming Bill will be enacted once it has got through the Seanad. We have not set a commencement date as such, but I think it...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2021)

Pippa Hackett: ...productive pasture management without chemical nitrogen, which instills confidence in me that this can be the future. Synthetic fertilisers deplete the soil of nutrients and will eventually kill it by destroying its natural functionality. While this may take a long time, and our Irish soils may be a long way from death, in the end, synthetic fertiliser, if we apply enough for long...