Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion

3:30 pm

Mr. Bill Stanley:

We are engaging with them. We are addressing some of the payment issues. We have met them to discuss issues relating to their contracts and ensure that there is clarity of understanding about the issues.

We have made commitments to prioritise them and share these commercial statements so they would be part of our initial focus. We have gone to each of them and carried out full inventories of their sites, measuring timber so as to be absolutely sure the calculations we are making reflect the reality on the ground. These are the steps we are taking.