Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Coillte

5:20 pm

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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They are the same people who give the competitors, namely, the private farmers, capital grants and forest premium to plant land. The shareholder owns Coillte but gives somebody else all of our money to plant land. Coillte has told us that this means that it is not viable for it to compete and plant land. It is the one organisation that is owned by the same people who give grants to the other guys.