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Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Marian Harkin: ...Sligo, Leitrim, Northern Counties Railway, SLNCR, is progressing. If, at any time, a Government comes forward with funding or policy to build the railway, Mr. Kenny has confirmed that within six months the land can revert to Iarnród Éireann and the rail link can be built. I do not see competition here. I see an interim or perhaps more long-term - none of us knows –...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (7 Nov 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...means the Department is engaging with the board of management and the principal in Sooey National School, who are ready, willing and able to provide two new ASD classrooms. They have provided the land already if the Department will work with them. Sooey is just 13 km from Sligo town. It is close to Collooney, Ballygawley, Ballysadare, Ballintogher, and Riverstown. There is a real need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Union and the Commission Work Programme: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...nationally was the nature restoration law. That is an example of highly significant legislation for which there is no committed funding whatsoever. That law would signal the most extensive land-use change we could envisage but there is no word on funding for it. Is Ursula von der Leyen really looking at funding in respect of the issues she has highlighted under the mid-term review? Is...

Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...where it should and responsibility for further actions where it should in a strong and straightforward way, with the protection of innocent civilians as its core objective. I am proud that Ireland has echoed the call of the UN Secretary General for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. That, alongside the unconditional release of all hostages, might provide some grounds to avoid a...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...Gníomhach will have to be patient. I am recovering from a bad bout of laryngitis but I have to speak on this motion. This regulation is the most profound and far-reaching legislation on land use change ever proposed by the European Commission. Even though they do not know it, it will impact every man, woman and child, both rural and urban, in terms of land use, planning and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (18 May 2023)

Marian Harkin: 101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the appeal process, if any, that is in place for farmers who unsuccessfully applied to local authorities to have lands zoned for residential or mixed use but is currently in agricultural use rezoned for agricultural use as part of their submission to the relevant local authority on the draft map published in November 2022;...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2023)

Marian Harkin: I recently attended an agricultural meeting to discuss the draft EU nature restoration plan, which proposes the restoration and rewetting of approximately 700,000 acres of drained peatlands. Even if we restore all the available Bord na Móna and Coillte lands, we are still looking at approximately 500,000 acres to be restored and rewetted by 2050. This is enormous. It is the biggest...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (25 Apr 2023)

Marian Harkin: 432. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 206 of 26 October 2022, of the remaining 58,000 ha of Coillte lands on peat soil (details supplied), the area in hectares that is planted with trees managed by Coillte primarily for commercial timber production; and the area in hectares planted with trees managed by Coillte primarily for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (18 Apr 2023)

Marian Harkin: 1094. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the compensation payments will be paid to landowners whose lands were damaged during the Shass mountain landside in Drumkeerin. [16993/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...do whatever deals it wanted to do. What due diligence was put in place to ensure Coillte's decisions were in line with Government policy? The Minister has emphasised that this is only 1% of forestry land in Ireland, but what we are really talking about is 100,000 ha of forestry, which in old money is 250,000 acres. That kind of land use change has massive implications nationally, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...that confidence is on the ground. It has gone through it. I know that from talking to constituents. Where do we move from here? If we are to get confidence back into the industry, farmers, landowners and local communities need to know the State is not going to allow Coillte to proceed along the route is has started. They need to know in detail the plans that are being put in place so...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...of the backtracking on what Coillte representatives said before Christmas is breathtaking, but it is most welcome because I was appalled by the Coillte proposals, which I described at the time as a land grab. Right now, this whole thing is about as clear as mud. Ms Hurley, CEO of Coillte, stated the following at the committee meeting: When we launched our vision, we were very clear on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...without significant investment from investment funds, vulture funds or whatever other source. The Tánaiste said he might look at alternatives. We could reach our forestry targets if every farmer in Ireland with a holding of 50 acres was properly incentivised to plant 1,000 trees, which would be 1 acre, and every farmer with 100 acres was incentivised to plant 2,000 trees, which...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...forestry policy in terms of getting to 18%, but I do not support how it is going about part of it because the implications of that, as I have outlined, are significant. The Tánaiste says he wants land to be in State ownership; I fully agree with him, but is the policy that is being currently pursued going to ensure that? Last July, 1,000 acres in County Tipperary were bought by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...in Brussels just a few weeks ago, when we discussed this very issue. One of the things I remember him saying in that discussion was that, up to 2040, a lot of the requirements for draining peatlands could be met by areas that were perhaps already afforested or other types of drained peatlands. I mistakenly thought that meant 50% but, of course, it actually means 30%, and Dr. Delgado Rosa...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Marian Harkin: Therefore, as far as Dr. Delgado Rosa knows, Ireland did not raise specific objections on this proposal. If he would come back with a further word on that, when he has had a look at it, I would be delighted. I want to ask about the impact assessment. It has been done at European level but Dr. Delgado Rosa mentioned the Netherlands, which is another example, and there is also Finland,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...years in the European Parliament and I know how it works. There is no consultation on the percentage of areas and that is already decided, the targets are there and we know where the drained peatlands are, so there is no consultation on that. There will be a lot of box ticking and there will be meetings but at the end of the day, the decisions that are already in place are really what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Court of Auditors: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: ...the big thing a few years back when I was a Member of the European Parliament. I heard Mr. Murphy saying that they work reasonably well but he gave an example of where there was an error in Ireland. Mr. Murphy stated there were cases where Ireland used a different method when working with the Commission. I would like if Mr. Murphy could tease that out a little and say why that happened...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: ...the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of the 232,000 hectares of the Coillte estate on peatland soils that are planted with trees, and to apportion the total figure between lands on peatland soils planted with trees managed by Coillte primarily for commercial timber production and lands on peatland soils planted with trees managed by Coillte, primarily for...