Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion
Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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My final question will go off-topic, but it concerns an issue this committee considers quite a bit because we get representations from communities and environmental organisations. The fact we can grow trees twice as fast as other European countries has been mentioned twice now, but that is specifically Sitka spruce. Does the ITC see scope for diversification into new forestry in terms of the types of trees and wood we produce?