Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 25 February 2014
Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage
2:55 pm
Thomas Pringle (Donegal South West, Independent)
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I move amendment No. 9:
In page 8, delete lines 12 to 16, to insert the following:"(b) to promote sustainable forest management as set out in the 1992 Rio Forest Principles, forest resources and forest lands should be sustainably managed to meet the social, economic, ecological, cultural and spiritual needs of present and future generations. These needs are for forest products and services, such as wood and wood products, water, food, fodder, medicine, fuel, shelter, employment, recreation, habitats for wildlife, landscape diversity, carbon sinks and reservoirs, and for other forest products;".