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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: I want to ask a clarification question. How often in the past three to four years has the border of the pest-free area changed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: So it is the same for the past three to four years. It has not moved.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: Senator Daly is finished for now. I ask him to take the Chair and take questions for the witnesses. We have a vote, so Deputy Kerrane and I have to go. Deputy Shanahan can ask his questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: It is a single vote. I will leave now and return after the vote.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: I think the Deputy has asked two questions. I ask Mr. Delany to address the questions on a new task force and ash dieback.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: Deputy Shanahan might be very brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: I thank the officials for coming in this evening. We listened to representatives from the IFA earlier. To say there is anxiety over this issue would be an understatement. The financial implications of it are huge. Ash dieback stole in behind our backs. There is a clear forewarning now that this is a threat to our forestry sector. There will be no forgiveness if this bark beetle gets a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: What does Mr. Delany think he is realistically going to need?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: I wish the Department the very best of luck with it. As has been said this evening, however, confidence is at such a low ebb. We have to start rebuilding confidence. Ash dieback is to me one of the cornerstones of rebuilding that confidence. To show that there is a mechanism for conversation for farmers would be one of the cornerstones. Biosecurity, again, to get confidence that we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: Okay.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Usage (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56906/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Usage (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 106. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1050/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the area knowledge module of the taxi licence exam in Ireland will be updated to take account of the use of satellite navigation (details supplied) and Eircodes as common practice in the industry, considering a taxi driver in Nenagh, County Tipperary is expected to answer questions in this module on local area knowledge in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 374. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on his work to ensure that retired members of An Garda Síochána retain pension parity in line with increases awarded to serving members of An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56339/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 375. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to ensure that members of An Garda Síochána who retired after 1995 on full service receive the same rate of pension as those who retired prior to 1995; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56340/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when payments for teachers and SNA’s who facilitated the Home-Based Summer Programme in 2023 will be issued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56327/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 613. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a competition was held for the funding of STEM grants to primary schools, given this is a core curricular area and a key priority for Government; the legislation this competition was run under; what oversight measures were in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1321/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she believes the lottery system for the provision of STEM grants to primary schools was the fairest way to divide available resources; the reason a lottery was held when the number of applications exceeded expectations; if the possibility of a lottery system was explained to schools prior to the application deadline; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what criteria, if any, applied to the initial reading of applications for STEM funding for primary schools; if none, the purpose of reading the applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1323/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 616. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how it is envisaged that a school which did not receive funding for STEM applications will engage in STEM activities to the same level as neighbouring schools that received funding under the lottery process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1324/24]