Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Coillte Teoranta: Discussion with Chairman Designate

2:10 pm

Mr. Brendan McKenna:

They own the fibre but they do not own the land. They own the fibre, which they buy, and they sell it whenever. That is the principle under which any harvesting rights sale would be made. Those who end up purchasing the rights would own the rights to the fibre but they would not own the land.