Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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1028. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of the country under afforestation as of 1 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11890/21]

Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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1029. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of the country under afforestation by county as of 1 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11891/21]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1028 and 1029 together.

My Department produces the National Forest Inventory(NFI), the most recent of which, carried out in 2017, shows that 11% of the country is afforested. The table below shows the forest area sand non-forest area in each county and the percentage forest cover, which is extracted from the NFI.