Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Mr. Barry Delany:

A number of them are. The shortest turnaround time would be 67 days for a file that would have come in in January. It would have been on broadly agricultural land with no environmental constraints and got through very quickly. Those ones that can screen out have come in since January. Most of the new afforestation approval applications have come since January, of those 54, because again, they are a little easier for us to go through.