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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (26 Oct 2023)

Pippa Hackett: ...many people want to understand. The Deputy will probably be aware that the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, is responsible for the reporting of emissions and removals associated with land use activities on an annual basis to the EU and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC. Hedgerows are currently accounted for under the grassland heading of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (26 Oct 2023)

Pippa Hackett: ...perhaps where the mapping aspect will come in. We identify those areas where there are trees in public spaces but my Department actually supports public bodies to plant trees on publicly owned lands. This has been relatively successful and is open currently to local authorities or other public bodies which may have a little space where they might want to plant some trees. They can...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Pippa Hackett: ...farmers in 2024, which is more than 50% higher than the provision for organic farming in last year's budget. Since entering Government we have doubled the number of organic farmers and doubled the land area farmed organically. We are on track to hit our target to have 10% of Irish farmland under organic production by 2030. This is real money making a real difference to farm families,...

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

Pippa Hackett: ...and then we can catch up with the rest later. I thank the Chairman for his welcome of the programme. We all share the hope that the programme will deliver what it needs to deliver. While more land is now not eligible to plant, there still is a considerable amount of land that is eligible to be planted on. Farmers can engage with foresters and Teagasc advisers who will indicate to...

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

Pippa Hackett: There is a replanting obligation. One has to replant anything that is felled. There will be a continuity of supply in that sense. I suppose there is a certain area of land - I do not have the figure on me - under Coillte management that might not be replanted because it has been on the wrong type of land, it is too close to certain areas, there is too deep peat, etc., but the replanting...

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

Pippa Hackett: ...scheme was only launched just before the Government was formed back in June 2020. It was compounded by a delay in the licensing process, which did not help. Covid did not help either. It landed at probably the worst possible time, which did not help with engagement with the scheme. Nevertheless, several hundred farmers did engage with it and farmers continue to engage with it. Like...

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

Pippa Hackett: I think so. Those would have just come in. They are new licences. Those people have opted in, which is welcome. Land availability is a challenge. The Senator is right that the challenges that exist now probably were not there previously. It is an issue across the board for agriculture and forestry. I am not sure what the solution is but we need to look at the situation in some way. We...

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

Pippa Hackett: ...there is a commitment concerning small-scale native planting. He may have heard earlier about the small-scale forestry scheme launched today to support farmers to plant 1 ha of native woodlands. In fact, if they have any waterways, rivers or anything like that running through their farms, they can plant an additional 1 ha. Both these options are available without needing to have applied...

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

Pippa Hackett: I agree and accept that there are challenges with land availability. There are all sorts of pressures from different sectors. At the end of the day, the vast majority of land in Ireland is owned by farmers and it is about their choice about what they want to do with their land, whether they want to rent it to someone, plant it, keep cattle or sheep, have tillage or whatever. There is a...

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

Pippa Hackett: Unfortunately, no. That rule is now gone so we do not allow planting on unenclosed land. It is just too damaging from an environmental perspective due to carbon loss and a number of other issues, so that, unfortunately, it is not available. It still needs quite a bit of land that is suitable for forestry.

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

Pippa Hackett: There are restriction in terms of the depth of peat. Anything deeper than 30 cm can no longer be planted but we can plant land under 30 cm depth of peat. There are other restrictions around special protection areas, SPAs, curlew nests, and the freshwater pearl mussel.

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

Pippa Hackett: Yes, land that is already planted can be replanted. The restrictions relate to new afforestation.

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

Pippa Hackett: They can be planted in the correct land. As we said, if it is over 30 cm of peat, they would not be allowed but there is a-----

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

Pippa Hackett: ...was any difference in payment rates and whether there were higher payments for farmers but both were 15 years – same time. Perhaps there was a slightly different approach taken then. The best land for farmers to plant trees on is their own land. That is where they will get the best bang for their buck.

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

Pippa Hackett: Yes, I understand it is a regulation. There is also a LULUCF regulation which basically requires us to maintain the stocks we have from our land use sector, which means for us our forestry in the largest part. Under those regulations we are obliged not to deforest and to at least maintain what we have. We are required under our own Forestry Act to replant.

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

Pippa Hackett: ...up to them. However, I encourage them to get involved in that part of the process because it will still be the same silvicultural approach. The first stage is to clear those trees and get the land ready for potential replantation. That part will be the same and that is why I am encouraging them to do that. It is fair to say we will probably have the licensing plan before the mid-term...

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

Pippa Hackett: Having said that, there is a limit to what an investor will invest in land to plant with trees. Investors do not have bottomless pockets in that sense because they will not-----

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Forestry Sector (28 Sep 2023)

Pippa Hackett: ...the development of this new programme. It is the result of comprehensive engagement and public consultation and emanates from the document, the Shared National Vision for Trees, Woods and Forests in Ireland until 2050, which was published last year.Inputs were sought from a broad range of stakeholders during this consultation process, which included a public attitude survey, an online...

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Pippa Hackett: ...will bring benefits to their way of life and their livelihood, their communities and, of course, the next generation. Almost half the earth's animal species are in serious decline. Here in Ireland, we have lost 90% of our wetlands and we have also lost nearly 500 near-pristine freshwater sites since the 1980s because of pollution. We need to work collectively to address this and that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 May 2023)

Pippa Hackett: ..., restores biodiversity, cleans our air and reduces our emissions. Embracing system change is essential, because tinkering around the edges will not suffice. Indeed, how we use and manage our land has been subject to much debate, and this has certainly heated up in recent weeks with increased focus on the EU's nature restoration law. While the law itself is nowhere near complete and...