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:
To be clear about it, people will harvest, and they will have to replant. That is the requirement. What I am talking about - I do not have the answer, to be clear about it - is something that incentivises new planting. I think that is what the Senator is talking about. These people are already in the system and they have committed to doing this. It is a legal requirement. However, we could develop a mechanism for some kind of more constant reward through the second rotation. It could be some kind of a loan or something like that where the-----