Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development

Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. J.P. Mulherin:

It does. What has happened with the role of county outdoor recreation officers is that they have been so successful that they are being overburdened as regards their workload. We went from 40 trails five or six years ago to more than 160 trails now. There is only so much they can do to develop the trails working with landowners. As Mr. O'Brien said, the county outdoor recreation officers were to come in and support that at a more strategic level to try to bring the partners together, especially now that county plans will be in place.

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