Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 September 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

I said to the committee that I believe a more realistic target for this year is approximately 4,000 licences. I am happy to advance a target for next year but if we can continue to issue licences at a rate of approximately 100 per week, and if we end up with a refined process, then I would be optimistic that we can certainly exceed that significantly next year. That is one of the things we are looking at now and that we will be looking at in the context of our process review. At the end of that process, I believe we will be in a position to make a much more realistic estimate of the licences to be issued next year. If, however, we can continue to issue licences at the rate of approximately 100 per week over a year, that gives us something close to 5,000 licences.

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