Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 December 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte
Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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Right. In the context of the 100,000 ha and the vision Coillte has in that regard, I was looking at the statistics relating to the amount of land sold in Ireland each year. In 2019, there was just over 29,000 acres sold. Some years before that, there were up to 60,000 acres sold. That equates to 25,000 ha or 30,000 ha. Is Coillte doing 100,000 ha?