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:

As a union that represents forestry workers we are all for expanding the industry and the State asset. There is no doubt about that. How we get there is the issue.

Deputy Flanagan is adding to my argument that there has been a recent artificial hike in the price which means that the chance and prospect is that if it went to a real market it would get less than Bacon assessed.