Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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447. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) will be allowed to plant a parcel of land. [27846/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The person named sought a felling licence to fell trees and convert the land to agricultural use. However the proposed alternative land was deemed unsuitable for forestry as it flooded. 

Any other land that may be considered as an alternative to the felled site must receive prior approval for afforestation before the felling licence will issue.  The new site in the townland named and any other land to make up the equivalent area to that on the felling licence application must be included in total on an application for afforestation submitted by a registered forester.  That application will be examined through the normal process for afforestation licences.