Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 December 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte
Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I thank Ms Hurley for her comprehensive, short, concise and precise plan for Coillte. I do not know where we are going to get the supply of land to fulfil all of the ambitions. We have unenclosed land and designated land that we cannot plant and we now have a restoration policy coming from the EU, which will also prohibit plantations on a wide variety of land that is planted at the moment. While I fully commend the strategy programme, which is ambitious, as a rural person I cannot see where we will get the supply of land to try to achieve all that we are trying to do around climate change. I call Deputy Fitzmaurice.
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