Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 April 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion
Ms Teresa McVeigh:
The cumulative effect of forestry is massive, especially in areas like where I am from. In my area, a lot of elderly farmers have passed away. It might be the case that a niece or nephew in a different country sells the land, and it goes straight to the forestry because they outbid any of the local farmers. The whole place is now sick of spruce. There is a massive cumulative effect of spruce everywhere. All the households are affected. There is no point in people putting up solar panels on houses because there is no solar energy.
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