Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage

3:15 pm

Photo of Thomas PringleThomas Pringle (Donegal South West, Independent)
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I move amendment No. 20:


In page 9, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following:“(o) to promote silviculture based on natural conditions using continuous cover forest planning and management using native species adapted to the site, having small scale operations and by encouraging natural regeneration, ensuring the protection of rare, endangered, and ecologically important areas while maintaining, conserving and enhancing biological diversity in forest ecosystems;”.