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:
In October, we had 4,700 licences on hand and we have since issued 1,200 licences in four months approximately so that would mean 3,600 licences in a year. Working off those figures, that means 3,600 of the 4,700 licences will be gone by this October so 12 months on and not five years. Those licences will be replaced by new ones and we will deal with those when they come in. We are not satisfied with an output of 3,600 licences for the year. We have upped the figure to 4,500 licences which will mean that more or less see everything that was in with us last October will be gone.
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