Pippa Hackett (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

There have been challenges in recent years because of issues with licensing. In fact, it has slowed down the wheels of motion in the rural economy from a forestry perspective, but we have cleared up the vast majority of issues in relation to licensing. We have a free-running machine now. If we start to see a ramping up of our afforestation and a delivering on our targets, we will see significant benefits for rural economies on the back of this.