Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Review of Storm Éowyn and Storm Preparedness: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Nicholas Tarrant:
I thank the Deputy for the question. I will pass over to Mr. Brady in a second to say a little more about forestry. It is a critical issue. We are working with the Department on drafting new legislation around forestry corridors to put them on a statutory footing. With the growth expected in forestry for the long term, this is really important. It was a major factor in how long it took us to repair certain areas. Even in our report, we have examples of where it took between three and up to seven days in some cases to get into these forestry corridors to do repairs. We have been doing work since the storm and Mr. Brady might say something briefly about it.
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