Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have clearly outlined how we have engaged with Coillte on how to move forward and determine how the State can work with it to support it in its efforts to engage in afforestation and avail of opportunities to partner with farmers. That is the way forward. It is important to keep in context what has been agreed – the 4,000 ha of afforestation Coillte has signed up to with Gresham House and ISIF. That would represent about 1% of the State's afforestation between now and 2050, so it is very small in that context. The proportion does not in any way constitute a monopoly. As I stated, there is a contractual agreement to which Coillte, as well as ISIF, has committed and signed up.

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