Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 September 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Colm Hayes:

I have given Coillte figures but I am not sure whether Coillte is a great indicator because it is fully licensed for 2021. We would have to go back and look at what it got last year. It is now bringing that to the market through a series of auctions and it is building towards 2022.

I will have to go through the analysis on the private felling figures to see how that works out. We are in September now and it is difficult to look at the figures and state they are an indicator of what will be available on the market for the rest of the year. In all likelihood, the sites that will be harvested for the rest of this year may have been licensed earlier this year, last year or two years ago. It is really a question of when the landowner wants to bring the site to the market.

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