Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector
9:00 am
Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:
The forestry planting over recent years has been a fairly steady 6,500 to 7,000 ha per year. There has been funding over these years for somewhat more than that but nevertheless that is what we get in. There have been controversies in some areas about forestry but we are making significant advances. Approximately 11% to 12% of the national land area is under forest. We are aiming to get to 17%.
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