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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte CGA: Chairperson Designate (17 Apr 2024)

...annually. As one of the largest landowners in the country, Coillte has a deep-rooted relationship with the communities in which it is embedded. The company has been to the forefront in developing onshore wind farms in Ireland, in the delivery of outdoor recreation spaces, and through its Medite Smartply business, providing sustainable building products to the construction industry. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte CGA: Chairperson Designate (17 Apr 2024)

Paul Daly: ...to get things back on track and help us to achieve our national targets? On that, at some of the most recent meetings we had involving Coillte, we heard about a very good Coillte scheme called the farm partnership scheme or the premium partners scheme, whereby Coillte manages plantations on privately owned land. We heard from people in those partnerships but all we heard about was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte CGA: Chairperson Designate (17 Apr 2024)

Ms Vivienne Jupp: I shall answer the question on the farm partnerships because that is the longer question. Coillte has historical agreements with individual farmers. It has a portfolio of over 600 farm partnerships across the country and these are generally of a very long-term nature, as the Deputy can imagine – probably 40 years. In return for planting the trees and managing the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte CGA: Chairperson Designate (17 Apr 2024)

Johnny Mythen: How much land will be involved in increasing the area of Coillte's land used for biodiversity from 20% to 30% by 2025, which is a very short period? Has Coillte been approached by wind farm companies to take up particular forestry areas? What is its position on that? We have talked to some farmers. They are very concerned about the 20-year rule, if they want to change back but cannot....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte CGA: Chairperson Designate (17 Apr 2024)

Johnny Mythen: When a farmer dedicates his farm to forestry, he is designated as a forester. However, young farmers who are about take over or inherit land might not want to take over the forestry end of it. What is Coillte's position on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte CGA: Chairperson Designate (17 Apr 2024)

...trees there, which take much longer to grow. It may not necessarily be the kind of wood the construction industry wants. It generally wants soft wood. Nobody has approached me about wind farms at all. I am aware that Coillte has a relationship or joint venture, FuturEnergy, with the ESB. Not many of the planned wind farms they wish to have have gone through the planning process....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte CGA: Chairperson Designate (17 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...is pressure on land. Coillte are using investment funds when it comes to buying up land. It is behind the door. The investment fund is buying it, it will come into its ownership after while and farmers are in middle. We have a problem in different parts of the country where landlord Ireland is nearly coming back. Coillte needs to work with farmers and communities and not bulldoze on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte CGA: Chairperson Designate (17 Apr 2024)

Ms Vivienne Jupp: I am glad to hear that. I have covered the issue of farm partnerships but I will reiterate it for the Deputy because he was not here. We have had a series of historical arrangements with farmers where we plant the land and, in return-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte CGA: Chairperson Designate (17 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: .... I ask Ms Jupp to make sure, while she is the chair, that she will bring that to their attention and that there will be a policy on that such that there will be a working relationship between the farming community and Coillte and we will not be left with a battle going on over a drain or a river that has not been cleaned for years, with farmers not knowing whom to go to, which would be a...