Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine's Response to Ash Dieback: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners
Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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Mr. White spoke about how this had been going on since 2018. There was an election in 2020 but there was no Rolls Royce scheme brought in for the farmers in March 2020. This could have been sorted. I fear the Department involved will make things complicated. I hope it will move on the issue. We will do our piece but it is like pushing up a hill, as Senator Daly and everyone else will agree. The Department has been before this committee so many times it is embarrassing. Forestry in Ireland is embarrassing.