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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Tim Lombard: ...a huge impact on the industry. Conacre prices have gone through the roof and there have been major sustainability issues. Where is the industry going? I am talking about purchasing and renting land. Straw is important in the system. Is the straw incorporation scheme appropriate going forward? We had a discussion last week on cover crops. One set of witnesses said cover crops did...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Tim Lombard: ...is ticking. In the representatives' opening statement, they stated that in the case of the Barrow and Slaney catchments, only 28% and 27%, respectively, of the nitrate was attributable to arable land. I take it the rest of that is pasture-based farming.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Crisis in Ireland's Inshore Fishing Industry: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Tim Lombard: ...there was more access to mackerel would the boats have the opportunity to fill a potential quota there, like in 2021 or 2022 when there was significant access and boats made a significant volume of landings? Will the witnesses explain to us what happened then and what were the volumes of landings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Crisis in Ireland's Inshore Fishing Industry: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Tim Lombard: From January to June the boats managed to land-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Crisis in Ireland's Inshore Fishing Industry: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Tim Lombard: It is a significant issue that fishers could fill their income with that kind of landing. This is kind of what the witnesses have talked about here. It would give them the income to survive because they could diversify, as on that occasion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Crisis in Ireland's Inshore Fishing Industry: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Tim Lombard: Are all the fishers' landings made in Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Crisis in Ireland's Inshore Fishing Industry: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Tim Lombard: Do the fishers have any issues with the actual regulation regarding landing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)

Tim Lombard: ...that I am caught for time. My last question is slightly off-topic. I apologise for that and, if the witnesses do not have the answer, that is very fair. On our national policy regarding landing fish, we have a national policy regarding fish but, to some degree, you can land the fish wherever you want. You can go to Norway or to Scotland, for example. We do not have a policy as to how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)

Tim Lombard: ...be conflict within the Department about getting the right result for the agriculture committee. One of the lines in the opening statement was "The proposal does not impose direct obligations on landowners and land managers ...". Will the officials explain that statement to me and how we are going to ensure this directive will not impinge on landowners or land managers and their land rights?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)

Tim Lombard: I take it the sampling regime being proposed will take in the entire land mass of Ireland, so we will be looking at all the agricultural land, our islands to some degree and also our urban centres.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Nov 2023)

Tim Lombard: ...a few things within the budget. In particular, I want to talk about the residential zone tax. We realise the residential zone tax was put in place because there was an issue out there with land hoarding in some locations. However, the farming community who have been actively farming this land for generations need to be taken into consideration when we look at this tax. I know of many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Tim Lombard: ...and none who have come to bat for the witnesses. Some 230 farmers are involved in payments under this scheme. I take it that, for a majority of them, we are talking about silage ground from their land portfolio, or is it grazing ground and silage ground?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Tim Lombard: So this land has not been cut at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Tim Lombard: ...less than two months, Bandon was the driest town in west Cork. I am a little bit unclear as to how we can do this on some level in the urban centres. We have this policy of leaving agricultural land to become vast flood plains. It raises the question as to what the national strategy is at this stage because it does not work with regard to how we can move it forward. Mr. Silke says the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Tim Lombard: ...on the ground. Obviously, 7% is the lowest of those, but what can we do about that 7%? I think the processing element is probably higher than 7%, but we are still looking at 7% of labour, 7% of land, 7% of the pesticides and 7% of the fertiliser going into a product itself. Mr. Cullinan mentioned the term wonky fruit. I asked him to elaborate how wonky fruit comes into the equation....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Tim Lombard: I acknowledge and welcome this afternoon's presentation on the important issue of the challenges facing the fruit and vegetables industry in Ireland and particularly the issue of food waste, an issue I have been chasing for a serious period of time. I will start with Professor Hennessy. I acknowledge her contribution to the Food Vision 2030 strategy. On where we are as a society with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Tim Lombard: Is there a replanting obligation? Will the farmland on which it is proposed to plant be harvested in time? If the land were to be harvested, would there be replanting obligations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Tim Lombard: Will the replanting obligation be applicable to those plots of land whenever the trees mature?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Tim Lombard: That is very good. Some 8,000 ha has been proposed and that is a figure we will fight about. To be honest, with the competition over land for use in dairy, tillage, forestry and beef, that is, to say the least, an ambitious figure. What does the Minister of State think would be an appropriate figure for what could be planted next year with the programme up and running? I do not think that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2023)

Tim Lombard: Tomorrow morning a big storm will hit Ireland, in particular the south west, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Thousands of acres of grain have not been cut. It is now 27 September. It is quite possible we will not save that grain, although most of it is lodged. I walked a 62-acre field of oats last Sunday that was not three inches tall. Maybe four or five weeks ago, this crop was the bones of 4...