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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Where is the payback? Those trees will not be cut in 20 years' time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is Mr. Carlin saying the tonnage of carbon sequestration will pay Coillte back?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, but Coillte either makes money or loses money. Where does biodiversity pay Coillte in pounds, shillings and pence or is it the case that if Coillte collects X amount of carbon, the State will give it money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: In all fairness, with the amount of forestry Coillte has, I heard it is responsible for 70% of Ireland's carbon sequestration. The witnesses can correct me if I am wrong. My understanding is that Coillte is not a polluter so why would it have to go the extra mile?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It will cost Coillte money if it is to go into a partnership with Bord na Móna. Would it not be more prudent to buy land, plant it and have something to look forward to in 30 years' time that can be cut and be reforested?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Why has forestry been stagnant in recent years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is Coillte able to compete with investment companies?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Investment companies are coming in here and buying up land to plant. Is Coillte able to compete with them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I come from a part of the country where the land is not hectic.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Right. That is good. Ms Gray knows what I am talking about. Previously, I cut timber in Glenhest. Ms Gray knows where that is in Mayo. I also cut timber in Aughagower and in other such places. Nowadays, I would not be allowed to plant in those areas because the quality of the ground where one can plant has been set at a higher level. That is causing a major problem. We must all be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: -----and we have not a hope in hell of achieving that if we do not allow some of that land to be designated as fit for planting. We are not making more land. Someone needs to call this. What is Coillte's view on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there not an onus on Coillte given that it is steering the forestry sector for the State? As the witnesses have already admitted, for the past two years the acreage of forestry has not been increased, or if it has, the increase has been small. We are talking about climate change. Either because the Government did not give Coillte grants or for whatever other reason, Coillte did not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Obviously, Coillte's main priority is to make sure it has enough timber for mills to keep them going.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Coillte sowed lodgepole pine on top of bogs, which was a waste of time. Others did the same. I am not just focusing on Coillte. Is the Department still insisting on a planting obligation in that regard? How much of the LIFE programme funding from Europe has Coillte received?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am not saying Ms Hurley did not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is that with the National Parks and Wildlife Service?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Coillte get the money from the EU?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Could the witnesses come back to the sequestration figures?