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 Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will pose only two more questions because I want to let my colleagues in. Where stands the nurseries if the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, introduces an eco scheme next year for the planting of different varieties? I had some discussions with the farming organisations earlier in the week, which I presume the organisations did as well, on the draft document in regard to the manner in which we are going to be planting trees. It would appear from that draft document, which is to be published in a month's time, that we have gained nothing in the line of thinnings and low-hanging fruit. Have the witnesses seen that document and, if so, is that correct?

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