Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 June 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna

1:30 pm

Mr. Mike Quinn:

Absolutely. We see two roles for Bord na Móna in this. One is on the biomass side of things in regard to willow. We can take willow crops from anywhere within a 100 km radius of the power plants commercially, which is a significant catchment area for willow production. There is a huge opportunity for private forestry. By 2030 the private forestry sector will be bigger than Coillte. That has not yet been mobilised. We are in detailed discussions with a company to come in and start to mobilise the private forestry sector to do thinnings and then obviously harvesting after the next five years. We believe we can get just as much from the private forestry sector as we can from Coillte.

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