Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food
Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion
2:00 am
Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source
Yes. I might add one thing because it just came into my head. On the question as to when we would hit the 8,000 ha per annum, as I said earlier, although I do not know whether the Deputy was here then, there are 4,500 ha approved today for which people have a licence and they are entitled to go ahead and plant. They are the people I am contacting. It is something like 520 people. I am asking them to seriously look at that. The Deputy is talking about hitting our targets. If those 4,500 decided to come in at any time, which they are entitled to do, we would have half a year’s planting of a total target in one shot without issuing any licence because they have already issued.
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