Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 October 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants

9:00 am

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

We have seen it in Leitrim where people are looking at the preponderance of Sitka spruce. As the trees mature, what they are seeing is the fruits of the policy as it was 30 years ago. We have very much changed our policy in favour of broadleaf trees. We have a minimum requirement for every plantation that we plant 15% of broadleaf trees. We have a target of 30%. The overall stock of broadleaf trees in the country is approximately 29% of the overall-----

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