Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Foresty Industry: Discussion with Coillte
4:15 pm
Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I have used the website. The coillteoutdoors.ie page is very informative and there is a weekly documentary called "A Road Less Travelled". It is very good. I walk on many of the Coillte trails in County Wicklow as well as in other counties. I have to plug Wicklow as well. As I walk in to Leinster House through the Merrion Street entrance every day, I see the bust of Charles Stewart Parnell in the garden room. Parnell of Avondale House was a Member of Parliament and in many ways was the founder of the Irish forestry industry, turning tree planing into the planting of a crop of trees that had a value added. I feel justified in giving it a plug.
I thank the delegates for coming before the joint committee. I know they were under serious time constraints. I appreciate that they were able to remain after we suspending the sitting to allow Senators to vote.
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