Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

What percentage of felling licences were appealed? It was 2.77%. In 2020, just over 1% of afforestation licences were appealed and 75% of felling licences were not appealed. There was a jump in the number of appeals in 2020 but it is still considerably less than one would be led to believe from the argument that there is a massive load of blackguards out there, clogging up the system.

What might explain the clogging up of the system is the Department, not the blackguards-----

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