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:

Absolutely. Either that, let our customers down or go on a three-day week - it was the only option open to us to do that. That took some of the pressure. When we hear that it is all resolved, the volumes that we brought in from Scotland gave a huge piece of space to the licensing authority. We were bringing logs for which it did not have to do any licensing work. That gave it a huge headroom to try to get up on top of it. Mr. Murray’s point is valid. This system has not been properly tested. We also need to watch that some of conditions on the licences that are being granted are that onerous on ordinary farmers that they do not think it is worth doing.

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