Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 May 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Coillte Harvesting Rights: Discussion with Irish Timber Council
10:50 am
Mr. Pat Glennon:
We believe categorically that the board mills should be separated from Coillte as there is a conflict of interest. The public must guess the correct value for the stakeholder or the State for the product and there should be a separation in that respect. It is a conflict of interest. Mr. Murray may answer the question about diversity of private planting versus public planting and what may happen in future.