Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion

Mr. Barry Delany:

The national plant protection organisation in Ireland, which is the Department, is closely engaged with the national plant protection organisation in the UK and, more specifically, Scottish Forestry in using a scientifically based approach, including additional inspection and surveillance, and certain restrictions to areas from where product might be traded from. I will present all of that to the committee and will come back clearly to it on that. Mr. Dunne outlined our inspection protocol. I again invite members to join us in the port where we can show them-----

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