Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion

Photo of Pippa HackettPippa Hackett (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I cannot give a definitive amount because ultimately it depends on the number of afforestation licences we get in from farmers. That is the biggest thing. Even the area for which licences came in last year, and I do not have those figures, falls short. The licences to plant that came in last year were well short of the 8,000 ha. Even if we issued every afforestation licence last year, we are still not-----

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