Written answers

Tuesday, 4 December 2018

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Coillte Teoranta

Photo of Clare DalyClare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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509. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of all EU grants received by Coillte since its establishment in 1988. [50126/18]

Photo of Clare DalyClare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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510. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of all Government grants provided to Coillte since 1988. [50127/18]

Photo of Michael CreedMichael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 509 and 510 together.

Coillte was established in 1989 in accordance with the Forestry Act 1988. Since 1989 Coillte has received €109.7 million in grant funding to enable afforestation of c. 78,000 hectares. Coillte also received €45.1 million to enable the building/upgrading of c. 8,100 kilometres of forest roads to facilitate timber mobilisation, along with capital grants of €11.9 million relating to other forestry activities. These are the total grants in relation to Coillte’s core forestry business provided by the Government and EU since 1989.

The capital grants drawn down were the standard ones available to all companies operating in the forestry sector.

Coillte also received an Exchequer Grant of IR£3.855m in 1989 under Section 29(1) of the Forestry Act 1988 for current expenditure.

Coillte does not currently receive any subvention from the Exchequer and has to generate its own income from its various operations. The company was deemed ineligible for forestry premiums in October 2003 and is not eligible for payments under the Afforestation scheme in the current Forestry Programme.

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