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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There are media reports, and we need to put this to bed fairly quickly, about an English investment company and Coillte tying up together. I can comment on this story because it has appeared in the newspapers. I do not want to get the Chair into trouble.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Gresham House has been put in the can with Coillte. If there any connection whatsoever, through finance, special purpose vehicles, SPVs, or by any other means, whereby Coillte is tying up with Gresham House and whereby either entity will be drawing down grants? I am looking at a document from the Scottish Parliament, dated 10 November, in which a claim was made on that Gresham House has not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Who are the directors of the Nature Trust?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What is Forestry Partners?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There are private individuals involved.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Are they drawing down any grants in respect of the land?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: So, grants are being drawn down from the Government and Coillte is involved.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is for native woodland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How is Coillte financing commercial woodland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the third parties that will be involved be drawing down grants, through a SPV or by any other means, when it is set up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Nature Partners was set up on 1 November 2021. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Are the directors Mr. Caulfield, Mr. Feeney, Mr. Berecroft and Mr. Beckett?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Are they private investors?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Are they drawing the grants?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The company is drawing the grants.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Someone is getting the money from the grants.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: To put it simply, what Coillte did down through the years was it went in and planted land. It did not draw the grants; the farmers drew the grants if they were planting themselves. Coillte went in and never drew the grants. What it is doing now is tying up with private investment funds, be it through the commercial side or broad-leaved trees and native timber. Others will draw the grants...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The grants are going to be drawn, yes or no?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Coillte never drew them before.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is Coillte going to manage these forests?