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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: To summarise, what I can see happening is, due to the 30,000 ha Coillte will be rewetting, there will be a battle around the country for land. Coillte now has investment companies coming in that ordinary farmers will not be able to compete with. It is a sad day for those with average land in rural Ireland. Farmers who are trying to survive on it will not be able to do so because they will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: When did Coillte decide the strategy? How long is it on the go? Could Ms Hurley please give me a year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. When did Coillte make the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Minister aware of what it was doing? Was it two years ago?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The question I asked is when Coillte made the Minister aware of what it was doing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Would the Minister have been aware Coillte was using investment funds two years ago? "Yes" or "No".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: When?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, but when?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, but when was that, roughly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Was it early on in the year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I know that, but I am just asking a simple question. When did the Minister know?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The question is when did the Minister know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Who in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine would Coillte have kept up to date?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I refer to the person rather than the Department.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, I know, but who? We know them all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is grand. That I all I wanted to know. Would the Department be aware of what was going on over the past year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is perfect. I was looking at it for farmers. Am I right in saying that farmers who sow broadleaves get €28,000 over a ten-year period, including the planting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Where I am just a bit lost is in relation to the Coillte profits. What is going on? Is it correct that Coillte made a profit last year of €124 million?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I refer to the total profit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is better still. What is the projected profit for this year, roughly speaking? I am not tying Ms Hurley down to €5 million or €10 million. I just want to know roughly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: When Coillte had everything paid, what did it have?