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. Fergal Leamy:
As a country we need to think about how we change our thoughts on land use in terms of some of the targets we have set ourselves. As the Deputy will be aware, 11% of this country is in forest cover versus an average of 37% in the European Union. We are behind countries like the UK. We would welcome a conversation on some of these areas. It will take more than incremental growth to allow us to hit some of the targets set. We need to think differently about how we do that.