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Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Michael Lowry: ...across the country to their knees. Incessant rain has caused devastation across every county, leaving farmers and their families reeling in its wake. We have an estimated 6.9 million ha of land overall in Ireland and 64% of this land is suitable for agriculture. However, the Irish agricultural sector overall has changed in recent decades. There are now just 135,000 farms. That is down...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2024)

Michael Lowry: Another issue is the shambolic management of Ireland's forestry policy, which has led to farmers losing complete confidence in the forestry sector. That is compounded by the refusal of the Department to provide appropriate recompense for farmers impacted by ash dieback. The total amount of land planted for forestry in 2023 was 1,650 ha. That corresponds with the lowest volume in the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (21 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: ...fuel allowance in view of the current housing crisis and lack of availability of houses to rent, and many families find themselves with no option but to move a mobile home or caravan onto their parents’ site or land in an effort to avoid homelessness; if an exception can be made from this ruling to enable many struggling families to qualify for free fuel allowance; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (18 Jan 2024)

Michael Lowry: 268. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a tree growing on private land falls onto the public road and a car collides with an already fallen tree, is the landowner or the County Council liable particularly in the case of Ash trees impacted by Ash dieback; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2159/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (5 Dec 2023)

Michael Lowry: ...the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 121 and 122 of 29 November 2023, if his Department will refuse to permit the conversion of existing forest land to agroforestry as is not a policy objective of his Department, nor is it a strategic action in his Department’s Forestry Strategy implementation plan; and if he will make a statement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Michael Lowry: ...or three years to get through the process, and it will then be into a five-year plan for the remainder. We need to have a serious look at long-term planning. We have read a lot and heard a lot about the bank of land that is available. Mr. Jacobs might explain exactly where that rests or where the DAA rests in regard to the purchase of that. It makes obvious sense to anyone looking in...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Michael Lowry: ...results? Today we heard plans to increase health staff by over 22,000. With all due respect, this sounds a bit like the story of the loaves and the fishes. Across all grades, health staff are leaving Ireland every single day. Recruitment drives for staff are failing to deliver. How and where will this additional staff complement be found? Will we continue to import staff while our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Security, Recruitment and Training at Dublin Airport: Discussion (14 Jun 2023)

Michael Lowry: .... People from regional areas are looking to their regional airports rather than going through the main airport in Dublin because of the cost of parking. It is a huge issue. I have read about the land that is becoming available and is on the market. I think it amounts to 260 acres. What is Mr. Jacobs's intention in relation to that? Does he have any plan for that? Does it form any...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Undocumented Irish in the USA (27 Apr 2023)

Michael Lowry: ...in the US despite knowing they will never share the same freedoms and benefits as US citizen. Most of them will spend their lives looking over their shoulders. For many people, the lure of the land of opportunity and the centuries-held promise of the American dream are impossible to resist. They follow in their forefathers' footsteps into the cultural melting pot that is the US. Many,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: I have raised the issue of ash dieback on numerous occasions. This perilous disease hit Ireland in 2012 and now almost 80% of our 123 million ash trees are dead or dying. Valuable land, including 2,000 ha in Tipperary, has been rendered useless. Plant and animal life have been wiped out and livelihoods have been seriously eroded. Common sense would dictate that the lands should be...

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Michael Lowry: When the news of the plan by Coillte to sell off huge expanses of land in rural Ireland first emerged people thought it was a rumour. When stories circulated that land was to be bought by a British investment company and fund they were convinced it was a practical joke. Unfortunately, it was neither a rumour nor a joke. In fact it would appear that a deal was done before the majority of...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (17 Dec 2022)

Michael Lowry: ...has experience of dealing with difficult times. Its first task was to deal with the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1918. This was followed by the worst energy crisis since 1970s and the first major European land war since 1945. The coalition has had a difficult birth. It faced many challenges in a resolute and cool-headed fashion. Of course it got things wrong but it has had...

Forestry: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

Michael Lowry: ..., sustainable and profitable forestry programme has also negatively impacted private investment in the sector. The new forestry programme that was recently announced appears to offer better incentives for landowners and is a welcome improvement on previous offerings. However, the grant that companies can claim for establishing forestry and development sites is not sufficient and does not...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (8 Nov 2022)

Michael Lowry: ...if a river will be dredged or if flood relief works will be considered at a location (details supplied) in County Tipperary, in order to alleviate the flood risk to the surrounding property and lands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55458/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (4 Oct 2022)

Michael Lowry: 751. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the basis on which the Forestry Service can decide that land is unplantable on a non-grant aid application for an afforestation licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48030/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Sep 2022)

Michael Lowry: 605. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if existing forestry woodland, if present on the farm, included in the Farm Sustainability Plan is to be completed on the generic land management for all ACRES applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47278/22]

Transport, Accelerating Sustainable Mobility: Statements (31 May 2022)

Michael Lowry: ...following their experience at the airport. Irish people hoping to start their first holiday in two years were left grounded and in limbo, many of them in tears as their flights left without them. Our land of a thousand welcomes became a place of no escape for 1,000 passengers whose feet were firmly left on the ground last Sunday. This is not the impression of Ireland we want to send...

Vacant Properties: Motion [Private Members] (6 Apr 2022)

Michael Lowry: It has been more than 30 years since homeownership peaked in Ireland. In 1991, 80% of Irish people were homeowners, while private rental accounted for 8% and social rental stood at 10%. At that time, there were 2,700 people registered as homeless. The Ireland of today is vastly different to the Ireland of 1991. There are more than 9,000 people classified as homeless and 67% of Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Investment Framework for Transport in Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: ...opportunities because the big supermarkets and outlets were positioned on the outskirts of towns at the request of the planning authorities at the time. The heart was torn out of every town in Ireland. As the Minister stated, it has even gone to the cities now. In my county of Tipperary there are Thurles, Clonmel, Nenagh, Cashel and Tipperary town. Each of them has so many outlets that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: ...activities and playgrounds, its demise should not be determined by money-grabbing insurance companies. The horse sports sector is a vast industry overall. Horse sport is a major employer in rural Ireland and an intrinsic part of the fabric of Irish life. A 2014 study carried out by University College Dublin, UCD, found that the Irish horse sport industry contributed in excess of...