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

I move amendment No. 97:

In page 31, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:“30.Provision shall be made for a review of the Forestry Act 1988 for the purpose of improving the consistency of Coillte objectives and operations in line with the Rio Forest Principles.”.

This is an important amendment. The question of Coillte and its centrality to Irish forestry has been discussed at the committee before as well as in the Dáil in the context of the discussions that took place there recently. It is the elephant in the room because Coillte is the biggest owner of forestry in the country. While we were all pleased to see Coillte stay in public ownership-----