Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte
5:10 pm
Mr. Gerry Britchfield:
Okay. If one has a tree standing in a forest, one has gross volume. One has a theoretical volume on the stump in the forest. When one harvests that tree, one will lose part of that crop because one must leave a certain height for the stump and one is removing the brash, so one leaves some of that behind. Ultimately, one will not get and deliver to the sawmill, in net terms, the same as what is standing in the stump. Also, there are areas in our forest estate that we say are available but some of them might not be immediately accessible. There might be road or access issues.