Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 July 2024
Public Accounts Committee
2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
9:30 am
Mr. Paul Savage:
I would add that we have committed to those targets in the farmers' charter negotiations that were finished recently. We are saying that we will turn those licence applications around in six months where there is no need for an environmental assessment, EA, and nine months where there is an EA. We are making changes to the structures internally in terms of the integration of the forestry inspectorate and ecology resources to try to make sure that those licences are processed quickly.
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