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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): I accept people’s frustration. They have been waiting a long time, but it is important that we get this right. This is not just a decision for me to make in my Department. Rather, it requires engagement across the Government, in particular with the Department of public expenditure. ...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)
Claire Kerrane: The Minister of State is asking those affected to use the reconstitution scheme, but we all know what the independent review thought about that scheme, namely that it was insufficient. In fact, the review went much further than that in its criticism of the scheme. Why would we ask farmers and others affected to avail of a scheme that, following examination, has been found to be...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): I assure the Deputy that meetings on this issue are happening every day in order to get it over the line and get it right. The independent review group did good work. The Deputy made some disparaging comments about its work-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)
Claire Kerrane: No, I did not.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): -----and claimed that it had simply told us everything we already knew.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)
Claire Kerrane: True.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): That was not quite fair. We doubled the clearance rate grant. One of the recommendations was that we increase that. The reconstitution scheme is the first step towards any support that might be put in place for farmers. They have to go through this step. There is no point in waiting;...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)
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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)
Claire Kerrane: 56. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the awaited strategy to address ash dieback will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18246/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)
Claire Kerrane: When will the Minister publish the action plan and strategy for ash dieback? It is now seven months since the independent review was published. Farmers affected by ash dieback in particular, of whom I have met many, are on their knees. I have never met a group of farmers so down, depressed and worried, yet the action plan is nowhere to be seen. Every reply I get states that it will be in...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): I thank Deputy Kerrane for the question. Since the first finding of ash dieback in Ireland in 2012, my Department has introduced reconstitution schemes to restore forests planted under the afforestation scheme which had suffered from or which were associated with plants affected by disease. A...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)
Claire Kerrane: It really is not good enough to keep using the phrase "the very near future". I have been getting that in replies for months. It has been seven months. I met with farmers in Galway a number of weeks ago. I met some in Wexford two weeks ago. They are broken. They put significant work into the plantations and they are dying. They are being left. It has been years and they are waiting...