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:
I will answer the questions on Storm Ophelia first. We were lucky. Although we shut everything down, we lost about 200 ha. Storm Darwin a number of years earlier was much more destructive. The nature of the wind was different and it was much drier. Once the wind hits 135 km/h, there will be damage. It was quite dry prior to the storm so we felt very fortunate at the end of it to have had only 200 ha damaged.
Was the question on the science about the decision on species choice or more generally?