Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte

5:10 pm

Mr. Gerry Britchfield:

With regard to the volumes we sold in 2006 versus the volumes we are selling now, last year we sold 2.3 million cubic metres. I honestly do not know what we sold in 2006, but I would say it was similar. I would not say it was radically different from that. The volumes we have been offering in the market would be quite similar over the last number of years. The price of sawlog is set by the market. We offer everything we have. We do not hold anything back. It all goes on the system and 98% or more is sold. It is sold on the basis of people bidding the prices they believe they can afford to pay in order to move that volume into the UK market and elsewhere. I acknowledge that prices are quite high at present.

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