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:
Something I said in my opening statement is we have 11% afforestation in Ireland compared to an average of 35%. That is an accident of history going back over the past 500 years. It is not that we have deforested to any significant extent. One of the difficulties we have with our forestry programme is we have this requirement for people to replant forests once they plant them.
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