Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion

Photo of Martin BrowneMartin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Everyone here will say, bar the Coillte representatives, that when investment companies come in, they can distort the market if the want to do so. Coillte is saying the contrary. What evidence has Coillte that when it goes into an area to buy land that it will not distort the market and push out the foresters and the small farmers who have been doing forestry in those areas.

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