Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Coillte: Chairperson Designate
Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source
The current guidelines suggest the broadleaf proportion has to be 15%. The rest would include different conifers and Scots pine in respect of the figure of 55%. There is no genuine diversity. Is Coillte actively considering continuous cover forestry? Does it have continuous cover forests? How does it know that it can achieve this or whether it has any value?
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