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. Aaron Byrne:
We have one in Wicklow with Coillte. It operates by somebody going on to Coillte's habitat area management system, HAMS, website. There they can get a permit. Somebody will then meet them at the site and open the gate. They can then bring their horses and vehicles in and somebody will lock it after them. That is in a forested area where not so many walkers go. That was selected specifically for that. We have to manage horse traffic and bike traffic on the Wicklow Way, for instance. That is a problem. Neither is allowed on the Wicklow Way.
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