Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Sale of Coillte's Harvesting Rights: Discussion (Resumed) with IMPACT

3:15 pm

Mr. Matt Staunton:

We have heard those noises and while we welcome them the uncertainty around the issue does not do the industry any good. The sooner the matter is decided, one way or another, the better. Even if we get a decision that we like that will not be the end of it. We will still need to re-stack and get all our houses in order. We are up for that, as I have said. If anyone attempts to introduce privatisation through any back door we will be campaigning again. We will not go away.