Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion
Mr. Mike Glennon:
We should look at the objective in its official statement. It states that 70% of the fund is to buy existing forestry. That is not providing more trees; that is just changing the ownership. That is providing a fund backed by the State to buy forestry from farmers. If any farm owner wants to buy forestry, he will now be going up against the State to buy the land. We just cannot understand how that can be positioned from a climate change perspective when 70% of it relates to existing forestry.
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