Emergency Planning
Dail Éireann — 2025-10-14
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Martin Heydon (FG), Kildare South

Absolutely. The Minister of State, Deputy Michael Healy-Rae, and I intervened with emergency supports for the horticulture and forestry sectors. The measures I introduced under TAMS and to change the rules around TAMS were all in response to what was an absolutely seismic weather event. It is really important that we learn from it because we know that, with climate change, we are likely to see more of these events. Although they feel like they arise once in a generation, unfortunately we have to prepare for the fact that they are going to become commonplace, and that is why the Deputy’s question was very well placed. It is about learning from these events. The scale of the damage to our forestry estate alone was enormous, as the Minister of State, Deputy Healy-Rae, will tell the Deputy. This is why grant aid is available under TAMS 3 for stand-alone solar water pumps and solar fencing, which operate off grid, allowing operation during power outages. This is another example of a practical intervention we are supporting to improve off-grid resilience should farmers be affected by a loss of power over a sustained period.

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