Results 701-720 of 1,055,334 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Máiría Cahill OR speaker:Catherine Murphy OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:Duncan Smith) in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Catherine Murphy: It is the ones that do not comply with that who-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Catherine Murphy: I hope it will. When we looked at the viability, and I think we had Bord na gCon as it was at the time in here, there was actually only one track out of all the tracks that was viable. Two would have been viable if the prize money was covered. Has that changed or is that something the Department monitors?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Catherine Murphy: I know I am and when I think of what you could spend €18 million or €20 million on, it would not be my first choice but that is a policy issue. In relation to the fish landing regime, obviously there was an issue there at European level. Are we fully compliant now and, if so, what has brought us into compliance?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Catherine Murphy: How did that come to public attention? Mr. Gleeson might remind us of that, or at least how it came to the Department's attention.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Catherine Murphy: In terms of protected disclosures, how many do the Department currently have and what has it been like over the last five years?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: In relation to the forestry scheme, it is one that we have raised in the past. There was an estimated provision of €100 million in 2022. That is the figure I have. There is an outturn of €74 million. That kind of a headline shows it is underperforming. The €100 million was to plant 8,000 ha under the scheme. That would be about 18,000 acres. Three quarters of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: What is the plan for this year in terms of planting? My understanding is that at the moment the timber industry has a plentiful supply and will for about ten to 15 years, particularly for construction. All the signs point to more construction being done using timber, and that is great. It is more sustainable, better in terms of the climate, and it is great for Irish industry. However, the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: That is just over one quarter of what we need to be doing.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: Is that because of restriction on depth?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: Is 2,500 the additional amount? Is that new planting that was not in existence?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: We managed to burn an awful lot of it in the previous 200 years - all of those big houses with 20 to 25 chimneys.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: There would have been a fella with a full-time job going around stoking them. We can see that going around this city and looking at the number of chimneys on older buildings. With regard to the fees, there is a question I want to ask about the cost of planting per hectare. There has been a ten or 11-fold increase in the cost to the farmer. What can be done about that? What I am being...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: Can Mr. Savage see signs of the graph going up in terms of the take-up and scale or is it still going downwards?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: How long is it in place?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: Has the Department halted the decrease or is it still decreasing?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: The number of applications and the scale of them.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: I am trying to get an answer. In comparison with three or four years ago, is it still going downwards?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: Is the scale of those applications in terms of the number of hectares increasing? Mr. Savage will know that a lot of the grants that were given were for very small parcels of land. They might have been provided for ten acres or whatever. It is good that that happened, but do they tend to be of a larger scale now? Are we planting the trees? That is what I am worried about? For the money...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Brian Stanley: The size of what is being applied for does make a difference, whether someone is applying for 2 ha or 22 ha. That is my point.