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. Brendan Gleeson:

I am obviously being too frank here but there must be ways of doing that. We cannot get to a situation where we do not require replanting. We will end up with deforestation if we do that. One of the barriers is that period where one does not get premiums and is waiting for harvesting to get some kind of reward. If we could crack that in some imaginative way, it would be helpful.