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:
No. There is no prioritisation of Coillte licences. There was prioritisation around volume to try to drive out the biggest licences in order to stabilise the sector. Many jobs depended on us getting out a lot of volume. The number of licences does not equate to volume. Rightly or wrongly, that was the strategy we adopted in the various project plans. For certain, it is not a long-term sustainable strategy but we are not leaving anybody behind.
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