Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion
Mr. Barry Delany:
If I may, briefly, the licences without constraint will move through quickly. We already started issuing afforestation licences last week and that will increase in the coming weeks. That gives time for registered foresters to plant in November. Much of the work on the remaining ones involves a desk exercise by our team. We will not go back out to ask for further information from the applicants. We are dealing with it ourselves and we hope to turn them around as quickly as possible.
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