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
Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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My difficulty with that is that there are 11 measures. It is demand-led, but there has to be leadership. We need more afforestation It cannot just be demand-led; it has to be combined. My colleague mentioned public lands, something I do not even have the time to go into. There are many issues involved. However, it goes back to my original question. If the captain is to turn the ship around, the captain needs considerable help. The Department will have a lot of wind behind it in dealing with climate change, but it might be heading in the wrong direction.