Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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367. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 134 of 12 March 2015, when his Department received the application for the felling licence for the person concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11724/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The Department received this application for a felling licence on 27^thJanuary 2015.

The application in question was initially submitted by email by a forestry company on behalf of the applicant on 21^stJuly 2014. Unfortunately the email address to which the application had been submitted in July 2014 was an invalid Forest Service email address. This address was published in a circular distributed to the forestry trade notifying them of emergency procedures for storm-damaged forests in April 2014. When the oversight was discovered by the forestry company in January 2015, the application was then submitted to the correct email address.