Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 May 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres

9:30 am

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I know all that. Coillte needed to get back into the game a decade ago. It is late coming back into it. I am asking a specific question. In the context of Gresham House coming in and purchasing land, the role of Coillte and the benefit or liabilities to the taxpayer, how will this work? Will there be a lien on the public purse? What happens with carbon credits? Anybody who says that carbon credits will not be worth money in 20 years' time is going around with a blindfold on. There is a big team here from Mr. Gleeson's Department and there are representatives of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. As Cathaoirleach of the Committee of Public Accounts, I am asking who will have the carbon credits from these sites. Who will benefit from that?

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