Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte

5:20 pm

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I have gelled around some of the things the delegation has said. Ireland aims to reach a target of 17% forestation which is pretty modest given the fact that we have a capacity to grow trees pretty fast but a desperately low level of forest cover. Given what the delegation has said to us, is there any chance that Ireland will ever reach its target? Coillte seems to be saying that it cannot contribute in any substantial way to reaching that target and, presumably, nobody else can. Is the target a complete fantasy and one that we will never reach?

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