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

Let me answer the questions and you can ask them, Deputy. Coillte made it clear to the Deputy as well as to the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, and anyone else it engaged with, that there were a number of ways in which it would try to step up to its 100,000 ha afforestation target. One of those was to engage with private investment. It then proceeded with that and engaged with the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, the experts. It has now done that deal. I have made my view very clear in terms of how we go forward and in terms of working-----

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