Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 December 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Coillte's Annual Report for 2016 and Climate Change: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. Gerard Murphy:

That is an issue that we have had to manage. Under the new code of practice, we have had to manage areas of setback against riparian zones and various other areas. We try to manage that in the best way possible. It often can be used, from a certification point of view, for deciduous trees. We often use some of the areas from a biodiversity point of view. We try to bring in some of the other issues. We do not see it as a constraint. We try to build in some of the other elements that we are obliged to do, such as biodiversity.