Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 October 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion

Photo of Matt CarthyMatt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I was coming to that. It is important because part of our discussions about forestry over the next number of meetings will have to take in how we can encourage new entrants into forestry, have a sustainable forestry policy and move away from the proliferation of Sitka spruce plantations to encourage broadleaf planting across the country. The experience with ash over the past 20 years is going to make that difficult, unless we get to a point where people can be assured that in the event of an invasive contamination taking place, the supports will be in place to help landowners and planters to get over that.

The witnesses outlined in their opening submission several measures that need to happen and some of these are quite extensive. Has Mr. White sought a cost? Has the Department or the forest service indicated a cost to implement his proposals across the board?

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