Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte

5:00 pm

Mr. Gerry Britchfield:

We certainly do not have the poles the company requires today in the quantity it needs. It may be bad planning and perhaps 40 years ago we should have foreseen the issue. We did not.

With regard to clear felling and its impact, cases like the landslide in Derrybrien should not happen. That was down to the nature and perhaps the practices of the site. We were not involved in that, although we owned the land. We were not involved in building the wind farm and the land was owned by another private company at the time.

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