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:

We are looking at that. An issue we have had to date is that we have been out of the afforestation market for a number of years. We are not eligible for the grants and premiums. We are very aware of it because if we get in and do it in a certain way, we would drive up the price of land. We have been very conscious for the past ten or 15 years that the private sector has been doing most of the afforestation. It is an issue with the carbon targets. We are looking for other opportunities to afforest land. We are actively exploring a number of options which we hope to see if we can actually implement later this year.

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