Pippa Hackett (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I know, but the point the Deputy is making is that he is critical of the model. What we are also doing is diversifying how we manage trees. This is also about management. We are seeing supports provided for continuous cover models, where there are trees of mixed age and species. Farmers are engaging with this initiative. It is a process. We are seeing Coillte transforming some of its monoculture plantations of sitka spruce and other conifer stands into mixed species and continuous cover plantations. Progress is being made, albeit not as quickly as everyone would like. We cannot just click our fingers and change one type of stand to another in a year or so. There is a process here. We are engaging with it and with landowners. If we give this time, then we will see a significant change in how we deliver forestry.

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