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. With regard to the Coillte restructuring, the focus of that is to make us more competitive and to ensure that we can supply our customers more effectively and efficiently. The restructuring was about ensuring we restructure the business to focus better on what we thought were our customers' needs. We work very closely with them daily, supplying them with 1.5 million cubic metres of sawlog. We have our disagreements but, by and large, we deliver to them what they require, when they require it.