Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 29 January 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Department of Agriculture and the Marine

Mr. Colm Hayes:

That was my point. Realistically, we are not going to receive 14,000 ha worth of applications in a year. We are not going to be in a position to approve those so the onus is on everybody to get that 60% figure up. In other words, if 8,000 ha is what is needed to be planted, that requires 9,000 ha of approvals, for example, in a year. The days of the speculative application are gone given all of the difficulties involved in approving a licence. We want to increase that 60% figure as high as possible. I am sure the companies want to increase it also because it is an investment on their part. Everybody has skin in this game and I believe we all want to see the same outcome.

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