Pippa Hackett (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I am quite sure my Department officials have engaged quite extensively with their Scottish counterparts, and while there is much to learn and take on board from the Scottish model, as I said not that long ago, there are quite significant differences between the Scottish model and our Irish model. Our average plantation size here is something like 7 ha. In Scotland it is 40 ha. The scale is totally different. One licence potentially for 40 ha there would take six or seven licences here. Those are marked differences. The ownership of land in Scotland is different as well. There are huge plantations, large farm sizes of thousands of hectares whereas here as we know the average farm size is approximately 39 ha.