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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there a planting obligation on those 30,000 ha or is the Department going to let Coillte out from that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Coillte not have to replant it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I did not quite hear Mr. Carlin. Did he say for rewilding or rewetting or replanting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Will it be a different type of timber?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Will it be something associated with that area?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Coillte will have covered itself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The 100,000 ha will be extra. The 30,000 ha will not be included in that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What is Coillte cutting each year in cubic metres or hectares?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Right. In the context of the 100,000 ha and the vision Coillte has in that regard, I was looking at the statistics relating to the amount of land sold in Ireland each year. In 2019, there was just over 29,000 acres sold. Some years before that, there were up to 60,000 acres sold. That equates to 25,000 ha or 30,000 ha. Is Coillte doing 100,000 ha?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: So it will be approximately 3,000 or 3,300 ha per year for 30 years. Coillte will be in the market for 10% of all the land that is going be sold, at best, in Ireland. I presume it is not going to be competitive in the Golden Vale, where land makes €20,000 per acre.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Pardon?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What I am saying, and I am being very clear on this, is that Coillte will not be able to compete with somebody who is paying €20,000 or €25,000 for land. In the areas in which Coillte will be competing for land, I presume it will be 30% to 40% of the land that is above marginal. Is it fair to say that said land is located in the west and in the midlands?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I did not ask about the importance; I understand the position in that regard. I have looked at the amount of land involved and analysed the position. Some land sells for €20,000 or €25,000 per acre. A great deal of land that is of lesser quality is to be found in the west - down as far as Kerry - the north west and the midlands. There are also parts of Tipperary and other...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What percentage of the 100,000-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Mr. Carlin recognise the concern among the farming community that Coillte will maybe compete for one in every three acres in marginal areas?
- 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.