Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 February 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion
3:30 pm
Mr. Gerard Murphy:
Another question was around unilateral termination of the contract by clearfelling and whether that was enforceable. I go back to one of the early answers on a duty of care to the crop from both a silviculture and commercial perspective. When one applies for a clearfelling licence, one has to show that one is felling the crop taking into account the silvicultural merits of the decision and its commercial merits. It is something that would go against that spirt and the legal obligation to fell the crop at the right time to get the value to use it as a way to terminate the contract.
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