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:
It is about better communication with land owners. There are 19,000 private forest owners, many of whom do not understand the value of the crop they have. Coillte needs to play a role in terms of greater price transparency around our system and what people should and should not be paid and so on. There is a huge effort required to ensure we mobilise private supply on this island.