Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 December 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte
Ms Imelda Hurley:
I will make a start on those questions. The Deputy referenced meetings between Coillte and the Minister, and the multiplicity of those over the past two years. During part of that period, the licensing crisis and challenges were ongoing, and we were also in the process of working and developing our new vision, so there was a series of engagements naturally taking place. This was particularly in terms of the new vision and, as we developed it out, articulated our purpose, identified how we hoped to deliver and anticipated delivering for wood, for nature, for climate and for people, ensuring we would keep the Department, the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, in particular, and the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, as appropriate, updated to ensure the shareholder understood our plans. It was against that backdrop those meetings would have taken place.