Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 July 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Update on Ireland's Forestry Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Photo of Jackie CahillJackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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We were in the plant at the Murray Timber Group and saw the end product that came out of there and the benefit it brought to the economy. In as rural a place as you can get, 180 people were employed, with 250 other gaining secondary employment from it. Yet here we are and we are not going to plant timber. Senator Paul Daly or someone that day made the point that Murray’s will be making plans shortly to invest in their business going forward. What signal are they getting?