Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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1564. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown of the number of persons employed in the forestry sector here; and the number of those persons employed by his Department. [25572/16]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The current estimate of national employment in the forest sector is 12,000 which is based on work conducted at University College Dublin. The Central Statistics Office is working with the Department on the development of national forest accounts which will include updated estimates of employment in the forest sector.

There are currently 118 people (equating to just over 110 full time equivalents) assigned to forestry duties in my Department.