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

I am part of the Save Our Forests - Save our Land alliance, which the Minister may remember campaigned and protested against the deal between Coillte and the Gresham House vulture fund for Ireland's forestation programme. In January we put into the public domain a leaked letter from the Directorate-General Environment in the European Commission, which roundly criticised the proposed forestry programme from the Government, basically on the grounds that the sitka plantation model is damaging to Ireland's biodiversity. Where now is the forestry programme in the light of that critique from the EU? Has the Government taken on board criticisms made in that letter?

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