Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte

4:50 pm

Mr. Gerry Egan:

No. These funds were established to allow other people to invest, in the same way that a teachers' or mine workers' pension fund will invest in equities, commercial property or other classes of assets. Pension funds like to have a certain proportion of their assets in assets like forestry because they provide a steady although unspectacular return.