Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 December 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte

Mr. Mark Carlin:

From the point of view of the quality of an ash plant, I think it should be. That will be part of the assessment in terms of provenance. It will be looking for resistance to ash dieback, but it will also be looking for good quality so that when we create seed orchards it will be effective not only in terms of ash dieback but also in terms of meeting the need for ash, particularly from a social point of view.