Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 November 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Mark Carlin:

In terms of log imports, it is usually in and around 250,000 cu. m or 300,000 cu. m so this will be very difficult to increase. One could say that this is in and around 10% to 15%. It will be impossible to increase that much more because the demand in Europe and the UK is very high so it is very difficult to import from Scotland. We will not be able to import our way out of this problem. There is a little bit more. Unfortunately, we have to look at importing in terms of some pulp wood for our medium density fibreboard, MDF, and SmartPly oriented strand board, OSB, plants but it is a very hot market out there for us and our customers for the sawmills to be able to import so it will be very difficult to do that.

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