Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed)

3:00 pm

Mr. Tom Donnellan:

We have established that it is difficult to grow in any managed way up to now using current techniques so we have developed some new techniques. We have seen that birch grows on our boglands and we have between 5,000 ha and 7,000 ha of birch, which is not counted as part of the State's forestry count. That is already in place. As we come out of peatlands, some natural forestation is taking place. We are working with Coillte on the type of crop that would be the most suitable, not necessarily from a commercial point of view, but from a decarbonisation point of view. We are still working through that. Mr. Shier might want to add something to that. We are still working through the type of species that would be most suitable, but they would be native broad leaf species.

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