Written answers
Tuesday, 31 May 2016
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Forestry Sector
Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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806. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of County Leitrim under forestry. [13212/16]
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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According to the latest figures available in the National Forest Inventory (2012) the proportion of forest cover in Co Leitrim is 16.7% (26,500 ha).
Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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807. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the target for forestry planting in County Leitrim; and if his Department has a county by county or regional target for afforestation. [13213/16]
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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There are no county by county or regional targets for forestry planting in Ireland. I can confirm that there were 36 sites planted in Co Leitrim in 2014 totalling 271.91 hectares while nationally there was 6,156 hectares planted in the same year.
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