Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Let us deal with the facts and let us be proportionate. When both of us came into office, I was a month or two after the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, we both came to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. There was a crisis in forestry. It was on the floor. We had a massive backlog, which had evolved from a change in a court case back in 2017 that meant every licence application took a hell of lot more time and effort, including staff time, to-----

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