Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy

Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Mr. Fergus Moore:

I understand. Looking at the public forest estate, the Derryclare project in the west of Ireland is one Coillte has put forward for restoration to peatland. That project is up and running. There are also other significant areas where Coillte is looking at restoring up to 30,000 ha of peatlands by taking off the forests in very low-productive areas. That will inform some of the private side in terms of how we can manage some of these existing forests. There could be an option of removing the forests from those areas and allowing them to revert back into peatlands. That certainly is up for discussion as well.

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