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- 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?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the deal? Will the witnesses explain the deal in a case where a nature trust with directors to whom it is accountable buys land? Has Coillte done a lease scheme or what type of scheme is done whereby Coillte is to manage these forests? Coillte was never a manager of forests; it owned all of the forests.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The big headline that Coillte is going to buy 100,000 ha of land is pure BS? It is basically a statement coming out. Coillte is going to be the forest manager, where investment companies are going to be drawing the new grants that are coming out. Is that fair to say?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I will tell Ms Hurley what the scale is. The scale is the small farmer in areas where private investment companies, not Coillte, will be coming in. Coillte will be running the forests and competing with those farmers while the investment companies will be drawing grants now that Coillte never drew before. That is the reality. Will the witnesses tell me-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Can Coillte not go to the EU or the investment banks? Will they not give Coillte money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Coillte is a manager.