Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 October 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants
9:00 am
Mr. Brendan Gleeson:
-----will not be done by the end of 2020. We are probably looking at 2021 before that is achieved. We are already working hard. We have €100 million for forestry, for example. Earlier this year, we announced a pilot programme to look at less intensive management of organic land on the margins of peatlands. This comes back to something Deputy Catherine Murphy said earlier. This is a very significant potential carbon sink.