Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion

Photo of Paul DalyPaul Daly (Fianna Fail)
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I asked who the purchaser was and was told it was commercially sensitive and there was purchaser confidentiality. That was on 5 May 2021. I have not had an answer since. I have been asked many questions on the ground, naturally enough, from people as to why Coillte is selling 500 acres of forestry, especially when it came out that the Gresham House deal would not involve selling forestry or any of the crown jewels. Yet here the witnesses are not denying it and I have it in writing from Coillte that it sold 500 acres of forestry. I am entitled in this forum to ask why. I will not ask to whom.