Forestry outside the western package

Summary

Enright asked whether forestry support could be reviewed and extended beyond the package’s 12 counties; Connaughton said forestry was another Minister’s responsibility but was being considered in the package review. The Chair’s procedural exchanges concerned Enright’s failure to yield.

Thomas J. Fitzpatrick An Ceann Comhairle Fine Gael

Deputy MacSharry.

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Tom Enright Mr. Enright Fine Gael

Would the Minister not consider——

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Thomas J. Fitzpatrick An Ceann Comhairle Fine Gael

I have called Deputy MacSharry. Deputies should heed the Chair.

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Tom Enright Mr. Enright Fine Gael

——that in regard to forestry he should have the whole matter reviewed so that the scheme could be extended beyond the western package to include areas outside the 12 counties to which the scheme relates?

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Paul Connaughton Mr. Connaughton Fine Gael

Matters relating to forestry are the responsibility of another Minister but I assume that in the context of the package, forestry is one of the areas being considered.

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Thomas J. Fitzpatrick An Ceann Comhairle Fine Gael

I cannot let pass what has happened. Deputies should not defy the Chair. The Chair cannot permit that sort of conduct.

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Tom Enright Mr. Enright Fine Gael

It was not my intention to be derogatory or insulting towards the Chair.

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Thomas J. Fitzpatrick An Ceann Comhairle Fine Gael

But the Deputy continued regardless of what the Chair said.

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