Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 March 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion
Tim Lombard (Fine Gael)
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It is a challenge to produce enough timber that is going to work a market in 30 years' time, given where current planting levels are at the moment. We are planting just over 2,000 ha a year. If there was a split of 50:50 based on that, in 30 years' time we would be importing the majority if not all of our timber for our construction firms.